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Roger Bacon was a scientist from the time of the renaissance (1200), and he was one of the first people to like a system of scientific reasoning/experimentation rather that ancient/religious beliefs.
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Microscope was invented
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In the early 1500s, Nicolaus Copernicus started to argue that the sun was the center of the universe (instead of the Earth)
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At the beginning of the 1500s, scientists began to start questioning ancient and religious beliefs.
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In 1543, Copernicus published his theory that the sun was the center of the universe instead of the Earth
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In 1543, Andreas Vesalius published a book on the human body.
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The scientific revolution starts towards the end of the 1500s.
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In the late 1500s, the meaning of the word science meant 'to know', but into the 1600s it began to change into the meaning that it has today.
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In 1609, Johannes Kepler published his laws of planetary motion. He used a telescope to see the mountain and valleys of the moon. He saw spots on the sun and the different rings around Jupiter.
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In 1620, Francis Bacon published a book that outlined the idea that people should rely on facts that could be demonstrated rather than through thinking/reasoning.
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In 1632, Galileo Galilei published his findings about the solar system
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In the mid-1600s Gottfried Liebnitz and Issac Newton both independently invented calculus.
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In 1662, Robert Boyle showed how temperature and pressure affect the space that gas occupies.
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In the 1670s, Antoni van Leewenhoek discovered bacteria
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In 1687, Issac Newton published a book about how forces holds the planets in their orbit. He proposed the law of universal gravitation. He explained the laws of motions and developed ways of measuring motion using mathematics.
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In 1774, Joseph Priestley made the discovery of oxygen, and it was later named by Antoine Lavoisier, who also showed that fire needs oxygen to start.
