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A Protestant pastor and schoolmaster who wrote "Herbarum Vivae Eicones" (Living Pictures of Herbs).
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Scientist who taught at the Protestant univeristy in Tübingen in southwestern Germany, wrote "The Natural History of Plants."
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Devout Roman Catholic who presented to the world his book called "De Humani Corporis Fabrica" based on the structure of the human body.
Vesalius is considered the "Father of Anatomy." -
Professor of natural history and medicine at the Protestant university in Zurich. His primary contributions to science were a five-volume work called "Historiae Animalium" (Histories of Animals).
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English physician and a great physiologist, was known for his classic work on the circulation of blood of blood through the body, "Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus."
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Group that was created by many puritans who included John Wilkins(1614-1672), Robert Boyle(1627-1691), and Sir Isaac Newton. It was created to repudiate the unbelieving ideas of materialistic philosophers.
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Naturalist who published his work Micrographia, in which he described the cells of cork.
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It was founded in Paris, France. It was supported largely by Huguenots and Jansenists.
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Dutch naturalist who discovered "animacules", which today we call protozoa. Also in 1683, he discovered becteria from material scraped from his teeth.