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Nicolaus Copernicus published the idea that Earth was not the center of the universe but instead the sun.
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Galileo Galilei used a telescope to confirm predictions about star placement and movement.
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Rene Descartes disagreed that a link existed between mind and body.
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Marmaduke B. Sampson wrote "The Science of Skull Bumps" to explain why crime happens.
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Traced ancestry to find more out on heredity.
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William James taught the first class in pschology at Harvard University.
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Wilhelm Wundt started his Laboratory of Psychology in Leipzig, Germany.
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Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Kohler, & Kurt Koffka disagreed with principles of structuralism and behaviorism.
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Sigmund Freud a physician who practiced in Vienna and was interested in the unconscience mind.
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"Modern science began to emerge by combining philosophers' reflections, logic, and mathematics with observations and inventiveness of practical people" (Hilgard 1987).
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