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Jan 1, 1214
Roger Bacon, an English Philosopher
Roger Bacon was born in Somerset, but went to Paris for schooling, then to Oxford for teaching. While here, he focused his attention toward math and science, and created the scientific method. His greatest works were the books he wrote, in 1277, about new scientific and mathematical inventions. He did this because he wanted to invent new things and criticze the church. <a href='http://http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/NORbacon.htm' >Click Here For More Information -
Feb 19, 1473
Nicolaus Copernicus, a Polish Astronomer
Nicolaus Copernicus was a Polish Astronomer who studied at the University of Krakow. He returned to Poland between 1507 and 1515 where he created the principle of heliocentric, the sun as a center. He concluded that every planet revolves around the sun, and the earth moves on an axis. He did this because he disagreed with Ptolomy's theory that the universe was motionless. Click Here for More Information -
Dec 31, 1514
Andreas Versalius, a Flemish Anatomist
Versalius was born into a medical family and attended Louvain University to stufy medicince. in 1538, he worked with disection and improved previous disection statements. At this time, he also worked with Venesection, the bleeding of patients. He said to bleed the patient in large amounts in the infected area. He did this because he disagreed with the way doctors were currently doing it. Click Here For More Information -
Jan 22, 1561
Francis Bacon, an English Philosopher
Francis Bacon studied at the University of Cambridge and then went into politics around 1584. He was a scientific man who wrote books about the truth. Contrary to society, he believed scientific truth was based on evidence from the real world. He argued this because he didn't agree with the statement scientific truth was reached by authoritive argument. Click Here For More Information -
Feb 15, 1564
Galileo Galilei an Italian Physicist and Astronomer
Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa and studied at the University of Pisa for medicine. It was here that he found he was good at mathematics so left to become a math tutor. in 1609, he heard about the invention of the spyglass and wanted to do even more with it so he improved the glass and also created the telescope. He found that the moon was not smooth and agreed with Copernicus, that the planets moved around the sun.<a href='http://http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/whos_who_level2/ga -
Dec 27, 1571
Johannes Kepler, a German Astronomer
ohannes Kepler was a German man who was interested in astronomy. He first wrote a book in defense of Copernicus and went to do even more planet studies. He came up with three planetary motion laws around the early 1600s. These laws all stated that the planets and sun orbit each other. He created these laws because he did not agree with society, that the earth was still. Click Here For More InformationJ -
Apr 1, 1578
William Harvey, an English Physician
William Harvey was an English man who first studied at the University of Cambridge, and then at Padua. He graduated in 1602 and made his discoveries about the human circulatory system. He found that blood was circulated from the heart, returned, and then recirculated. He studied this because he disagreed with society who thought food was turned into blood. Click Here For More Information -
Rene' Descartes, a French Philosopher
Rene' Descartes was born in France and studied at a Jesuit college. In 1641, he published his first book on philosophy. He believed that God was the creator of the universe and that God had a humanlike mind, but did not have a creator. He did this because views all over the world were changing, and he wanted to show everyone his views. Click Here For More Information -
Robert Boyle, an Irish Scientist
Robert Boyle was born in Ireland where he studied at Eton and then went to Europe in 1655. He worked with others to create the air-pump, and then went on to create his own law. Boyle's law states that as long as temperature stays constant, when pressure increases, volume decreases. He did this because he believed gases were made of tiny particles. Click Here For More Information -
Isaac Newton, an English Scientist
Isaac Newton attended Cambridge in 1661, where he became interested in science. His greatest works were with optics and gravity. He first worked with the optics and how reflecting lights made color. His second work with gravity in 1666 found that it was a force controlling motion. He studied gravity because an apple fell and hit him, and he was curious about why the moon always stayed with the Earth. Click Here For More Information
