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Believed the Earth was round & that it rotated around the sun
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Vesalius makes unprecedented observations about the structure of the human body.
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He is remembered for his cosmological theories, which conceptually extended the then novel Copernican model. He proposed that the stars were just distant suns surrounded by their own exoplanets and raised the possibility that these planets could even foster life of their own (a philosophical position known as cosmic pluralism). He also insisted that the universe is in fact infinite and could have no celestial body at its "center"
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Viete's invention is essential to the study of physics and astronomy.
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Italian mathematician
Improved the telescope to make it more powerful
Observed: sunspots, mountains on the moon, Jupiter’s moons
Created the pendulum clock
1636 = published ideas on physics, astronomy, etc.
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Napier's invention and cataloguing of logarithms is an essential step in easing the task of numerical calculation.
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Concluded that blood circulates throughout the body, pumped by the heart and returning through the veins
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Kepler's laws of planetary motion describe the form and operation of planetary orbits, and are the final step leading to the academic rejection of the Aristotelian system.
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established the Baconian method to investigate natural science. His approach led to the development of the scientific method, which is still used.
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established a modern system of geometry, which described moving matter, and he set forth novel ideas in the field of philosophy.
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Torricelli's invention measures air pressure, demonstrating that air does indeed have weight, and that the pressure caused by that weight differs in different situations.
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Discovered the cell
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Boyle's work, though highly flawed, sets the stage for the study of matter on the atomic level.
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Borelli's work is the greatest early triumph of the application of mechanical laws to the human organism.
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Perhaps the most important event in the history of science, the Principia lays out Newton's comprehensive model of the universe as organized according to the law of universal gravitation. The Principia represents the integration of the works of all of the great astronomers who preceded Newton, and remains the basis of modern physics and astronomy.