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was an English philosopher and Franciscan friar who placed considerable emphasis on the study of nature through empiricism. He was the first person to record the formula of gunpowder.
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a device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring the ink. This was a dramatic improvement on earlier printing methods in which the cloth, paper or other medium was brushed or rubbed repeatedly to achieve the transfer of ink, and accelerated the process. Typically used for texts, the invention and spread of the printing press was one of the most influential events in the second millennium
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Leonardo da Vinci was a painter, sculptor, architect, inventor, military engineer, and draftsman. With a curious mind he studied the laws of science and nature. His ideas and body of work have influenced countless artists. He started to study anatomy seriously and dissect human and animals bodies during the 1480s.
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Nicolaus Copernicus developed his own celestial model of a heliocentric planetary system. which is a model in which the sun is assumed to lie near a center point. Which other people did not believe this was true.
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Heliocentric system, a cosmological model in which the Sun is assumed to lie at or near a central point while the Earth and other bodies revolve around it.
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Andreas Vesalius was a 16th-century Flemish anatomist, physician, and author of one of the most influential books on human anatomy. Vesalius is often referred to as the founder of modern human anatomy. He did his own studies to see how the human muscles and tissue.
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Francis Bacon was an English philosophical. He took up Aristotelian ideas, arguing for an empirical, inductive approach, known as the scientific method, which is the foundation of modern scientific inquiry
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Galileo Galilei was an Italian polymath. Galileo is a central figure in the transition from natural philosophy to modern science and in the transformation of the scientific Renaissance into a scientific revolution. Galileo built his own device (The telescope)
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Was a German astronomer. He helped confirm Copernicus new understanding of the universe. He was a brilliant mathematician who used models, observations, and mathematics to test Copernicus heliocentric theory.
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William Harvey was an English physician who made seminal contributions in anatomy and physiology. He was the first known physician to describe completely and in detail the systemic circulation. And the properties of blood being pumped to the brain and body by the heart.
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An instrument used to see objects that are too small to be seen by the naked eye. Microscopy is the science of investigating small objects and structures using such an instrument. Microscopic means invisible to the eye unless aided by a microscope.
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René Descartes was a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. Dubbed the father of modern western philosophy, much of subsequent Western philosophy is a response to his writings, which are studied closely to this day. He developed a philosophy based on his own reason.
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The telescope is one of humankind's most important inventions. The simple device that made far away things look near gave observers a new perspective. When curious men pointed the spyglass toward the sky, our view of Earth and our place in the universe changed forever.
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He helped to pioneer the modern science of chemistry. He was an Irish philosopher, chemist, physicist and inventor. He is best known for boyles law which describes the inversely proportional relationship between the absolute pressure and volume of a gas.
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was a Dutch businessman, scientist, and one of the notable representatives of the Golden Age of Dutch science and technology. He used the microscope to discover bacteria. He called them animalcules, he also studies and wrote about his findings.
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Isaac Newton was a physicist and mathematician who developed the principles of modern physics, Including the laws of motion. Hes first major scientific achievement was designing and constructing a reflecting telescope.
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was a German polymath and philosopher who occupies a prominent place in the history of mathematics and the history of philosophy, having developed differential and integral calculus independently of Isaac Newton. He devolved a new branch of mathematics. (calculus)
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Joseph Priestley was a English clergyman, political theorist, and physical scientist. He is best remembered for his contribution to the chemistry of gases.
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Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier was a French nobleman and chemist who was central to the 18th-century chemical revolution and who had a large influence on both the history of chemistry and the history of biology. He belived that fire was an emlemnt. And proved that matter can change form.
