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The idea that the sun is the center of the milky way instead of the previous thought that it was the Earth. Led to people abandoning the earth being the center of the milky way.
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Johannes Kepler discovered the first two laws of planetary motion. How the planets orbit the sun, and all planets sweep out in equal areas.
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Discovery of how refraction and light waves work.
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Robert Hooke discovered cells
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Benjamin Franklin discovered that lightning is electrical with the key and string.
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