Cientifics and Philosophers

  • 624 BCE

    Thales of Miletus (624-546 BC)

    First physis philospher that stated that every reality has a arché. He said that the Earths arché was water
  • 495 BCE

    Empedocles of Agriento (495-444 BC)

    Said nothing can originate from nothing; what exists can't disappear. Reality's changes are transformations of the same substance.
  • 460 BCE

    Democritus (460-370 BC)

    Propsed the existance of the atom, a indivisible material and infenitely small.
  • 384 BCE

    Aristotle (384-322 BC)

    Formulated a geocentric theory to explain the place of the earth in the Universe. In the Aristotelian system, the sepherical Earth was the center of the Universe, and all the celestial bodies surrounded it were ordered in different spheres.
  • 310 BCE

    Aristarchus (310-230 BC)

    He proposed that the stars and the Sun remain motionless and that the Earth revolves around the sun following a circumference. (its theory was heliocentric)
  • 85

    Claudius Ptolemy (85-165 AD)

    Ptolemy affirmed that all the celestial bodies describe perfectly circular orbits around the Earth at different distances, of which he offered some measurements.
    He calculated the dimensions of the Sun and the Moon and estimated that the universe contained 1028 stars.
  • 1473

    Nicolas Copernicus (1473-1543)

    Retaking the proposal of the proposal of the Heliocentric theory (Aristarchus). Is took him around twenty five years to develop his proposed heliocentric model of Aristarchus, using new observations, mesurements, and calculation.
  • 1561

    Francis Bacon (1561- 1626)

    Enunciated a very self-explained metaphor that help us understand this paradox; "It is not about spiders or ants, but about the bees".
  • 1564

    Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)

    He argued that Earth revolves around the Sun
  • Rene Descartes (1596-1650)

    He said that everything that helps the rationality of the subject is knowledge, he also a method for obtaining knowledge
  • Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)

    He devoted himself to the study of mathematics, he also favored reason over experience. he also referred to knowledge of intuition as a type of intellectual ability.
  • Robert Boyle (1627-1691)

    Said that the volume of a gas decreases with more pression and with less pression more gas
  • John Locke (1632-1704)

    Said that reason is empty by itself and affirmed that every thing we think and know is a result of our experience.
  • Isaac Newton (1643-1727)

    Based all his research on empirical experimentationto obtain universal laws.
  • George Berkeley (1685-1753)

    Went to the extremes of empiricism and denied that anything existed if it is not possible to the individual to have an experience of it.
  • David Hume (1711-1776)

    Is the current symbol of empiricisim. He proposeed a new concept based on experience, which he called skepticism.
  • Emanuel Kant (1724-1804)

    Stated that human knowledge can only be archived through interaction of experience and reason.
  • Jonh Dalton (1766-1844)

    He developed a method to get the atomic weight and structures of atoms, and also made the law of partial pressures
  • Karl Marx (1818-1883)

    Said that materialism tells us that reality is mental and material, therefore knowledge is obtained through reason and experience.
  • Charles Darwin (1809-1882)

    The discovery of the natural selection, and he completed the Copernican Revolution
  • Gregor Mendel (1822-1884)

    He discovered the fundamental laws of inheritance. He deduced that genes come in pairs and are inherited distinctly
  • Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

    He created the theory of relativity, he also contributed to the development of the quantum theory. He also explained the photo electric effect.
  • Louis Pasteur (1882-1895)

    He made the process of pasteurization in which you make milk edible by killing the microbes and bacteria in the milk.
  • Niels Bohr (1885-1962)

    He proposed an atom theory, where he explained how electrons floated around the nucleus but on;y in prescribed orbits.
  • Marie Curie (1867-1934)

    Discovered the radioactive elements, radio and polonium, that would help in the medical progress.
  • Edgar Morín (1921-)

    He has proposed a method with an approach that integrates different disciplines to understand the construction of complex human thinking.
  • James D. Watson (1928-) Francis H.C (1926-2004)

    They determined the double-helix structure of DNA,
  • Julio Herminio (1964-)

    Affirms that epistemology is a branch of philosophy that studies scientific research and its product.
  • Julian Baggini (1968-)

    He concluded that the process of knowledge is not only an academic matter but also a daily life thing