History Project

By AAA1843
  • Period: Jan 1, 1300 to

    Famous People

  • Ambroise Pare
    May 16, 1510

    Ambroise Pare

    Pare was born in 1510. He made advances in medicine; dsicovering herbs and natural remedies. He also made a treatment for infants so that their teeth would grow into their gums correctly. The picture is by Pare and shows a case reported in which a woman gave borth to undecaplets after already having nontuplets. Pare also wrote Treatise on Curative Methods for Wounds of the Head.
  • Andreas Vesalius
    Oct 15, 1514

    Andreas Vesalius

    Andreas Vesalius was born in 1514. He was skilled in the field of medicine and more specifically; surgery. He published a book titled Tabulae Anatomicae Sex in 1538. It conatined detailed anatomical drawings.
  • Tycho Brahe
    May 17, 1546

    Tycho Brahe

    Tycho Brahe was born in 1546. He was a Daniash nobleman who made accurate observations of astronomical data. He was given the funding to have an state with his own research institute called Uraniborg. Tycho's assistant was Johannes Kepler helped to derive the laws of planetary motion. Tycho Brache wrote De Nova Stelle.
  • Francis Bacon
    May 16, 1561

    Francis Bacon

    Francis Bacon was born in 1561. He was a jurist, author, statesman, ohilosopher, and scientist. He also created a methodology for scientific inquiry entitled the Baconian method. Bacon was knighted in 1603. He died from pneumonia while he studied the effects of freezing on preserving meat.
  • William Harvey
    May 17, 1578

    William Harvey

    William Harvey was born in 1578. He was a physician who was the first to completely describe the circulatory system and its blood in humans. He wrote a book entitled: On the Motion of the Heart and Blood. The William Harvey Hospital was named after him.
  • René Descartes

    René Descartes

    René Descartes was born in 1596. He was a writer, mathematician, philosopher, and a Frenchman. He was famous for the quote "I think, therefore I am." He was a major figure in the field of Rationalism. Rne also wrote Meditations on First Philosophy.
  • Robert Boyle

    Robert Boyle

    Robert Boyle was born in 1627. He was the father of the modern experimental meathod. He had many publications and traveled accross Europe while visiting many different laboratories. Boyle also wrote The Sceptical Chymist.