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Roger Bacon was an English philosopher. His main emphisis was on the study of nature through emperical methods. He is credited for being one of the earlist European advocates of modern scientific methods. Most of his knowledge came from reading many books. More Information
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Nicolaus Copernicus was an amateur Polish astrnomer. He was known for the development of the revolutionary Copernican system. It was a model of the solar system in which all the planets orbit around the sun. More Information
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Andreas Vesalius was a Flemish anatomist, physician and author of a very influential books about human anatomy. He was born in Belgium. Many people refer him to the founded of modern human anatomy. He was the first one to lead individual investigation to the structure of the human body. More Information
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Francis Bacon was an English philosopher born in London. He also became a statesman, scientist, jurist and author. He served as the Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. He was important to the transition of Renaissance to the modern era.
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Galileo Galilei was an Italian mathematician, astromomer and physicist. He studied at the University of Pisa and did extensive studying on pedulums. He was soon appointed professor of mathematics at the University of Puda in Italy. He had many inventions and was the first to use a telescope to observe the skies. More Information
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Johannes Kepler was a German mathematician. He was the first person to realize that the planets go around the sun in elliptical orbits. He formulated "Kepler's Three Laws" of planetary motion. It mathematically describes elliptical orbits. More Information
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William Harvey was an English physician. He's known for describing completely in detail the systemic circulation. He was the first to describe accurately how blood was pumped around the body by the heart. His first findings were at the College of Physicians. More Information
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Rene' Descartes was a French philosopher born in France. He a had a great impact on his application of alegbra to geometry. He is credited with being the "Father of Modern Philosophy." More Information
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Robert Boyle was born in Ireland. He was a philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor. He was also known very well for his different writings in theology. A certain law was named after him being called "Boyle's Law." It had to do with his findings in volume and pressure. More Information
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Isaac Newton was an English mathematician and physicist. He invented claculus. He also formulated the law of gravitation and discovered the laws of motion. He discovered that sunlight is made of different colors. He made up the color spectrum. The three laws of motion are named after him along with the deepest crater on the moon. More Information
