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Vesalius is often referred to as the founder of modern human anatomy.Vesalius work on the vascular and circulatory systems was his greatest contribution to modern medicine.
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in this book he first mentioned that the Earth was not the center of the universe.
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Bacon invented the scientific method This method is still used today.
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Kepler is well known for correctly explaining planetary motion with his 3 laws known as keplers laws
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William Harvey was best known for explaining blood circulation. People back then thought blood was pumped from the liver he was the first to discover that the heart pumped the blood.
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Margaret Cavendish was one of the first prolific female science writers she wrote about 14 scientific books.
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he is best known for boyles law which describes the inversely proportional relationship between the absolute pressure and volume of a gas, if the temperature is kept constant within a closed system.
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It compared the Copernican system to the Ptolemaic system. Copernican sytem was based on the fact that Earth and other planets revolved around the Sun. The Ptolemaic system was the belief that everything revolved around Earth.
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Descartes invented an algebraic geometry called analytic geometry.
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known for inventing the Reflecting Telescope and his three laws of motion.
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Maria Winkelmann discovered the comet of 1702 and was the first woman to discover a comet. Maria Winkelmann was also famous for some observations on the aurora borealis in 1707
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Antoine Lavoisier is most noted for his discovery of the role oxygen plays in combustion.
