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Jan 1, 1214
Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon ws an English philiosopher and friar who studied nature through empirical methods. he is sometimes credited with being one of the earliest advocates of the scientific method. Recent reevaluations of Bacon reveal that he was a mdevil thinker and obtained most of his knowledge from books.clcik here for more info -
Jan 1, 1473
Nicolaus Copernicus
Copernicus is believed to be the founder of modern day astronomy. In 1530, Copernicus completed his great work "De Revolutionibus," which asserted that the earth rotated on its axis once daily and traveled around the sun once yearly. This theory was contrary to the wide held belief that the son and other plantes rotated around Earth.
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Dec 31, 1514
Andreas Vesalius
Andreas Vesalius was a Flemish physician and anatomist who wrote one of the most influential books of his time, De Humani Corporis Fabrica(On the Structure of teh Human Body) He is considered to be the founder of modern human anatomy.click here for more info -
Jan 1, 1561
Francis Bacon
Bacon was a English philosopher who served as attorney general and Lord Chancellor of England. He is widely regarded as being one of the most thought influential intellectuals of his time. He was very influential as a philisophical advocate and his practive of teh scientific methodclick here for more info -
Feb 15, 1564
Galileo Galilei
Galileo was an Italian physicist and astronomer. galileo improved upon the design of the spyglass to develope the telescope. he also discovered that the moon was not smooth but instead rough and pitted. his discoveries led him to firmly agree with copernicus's theory that the Earth was not the center of the universe.for more info click here -
Jan 1, 1571
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler is one of the most important scientists in the field of astronomy. He was the founder of "celestial mechanics" and the first to explain plentary motion.Kepler explained how the tides were influenced by the Moon, determined the exact year of Christ's birth, derived Logarithms based on mathematics, and is responsible for finding the three laws of planetary motion.
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Apr 1, 1578
William Harvey
William Harvey was teh first physician to accurately descrbie how the heart pumped blood through the body. Harevy recognised that the veins in the human body had one-way valves, but he was puzzled about their function. It was Harvey who went on to solve the riddle of what part the valves played in the circulation of blood through the body.click here for more info -
Rene Descartes
Descartes is credited with being the father of modern philosophy. He developed and promotied new, mechanistic sciences. His break with Scholastic philosophy was twofold. Descartes thought that the Scholastics’ method was prone to doubt given because they relied on sensation as the source for all knowledge. click here for more info -
Robert Boyle
Robert Boyleis regarded as the first modern chemist, and one of the founder of modern chemistry. HE was an advocate of the scientific method and he is well known for Boyles Law which describes the inversely proportional relationship between the absolute pressure and volume of a gas.click here for more info -
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton is renowned for his improvements upon prior theories in regards to astronomy and mathematics. He is well known for his three laws explaining how objects move. Isaac Newton is also given credit for observing and explaing the laws of gravity at length.
