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Nicolas Copernicus argued that the sun was the center of the universe.
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Until the 1500's, most Europeans saw little difference between science and magic.
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Thinkers Isaac Newton and Gottfried Liebnits developed a new branch or mathematics, calculus. They did not work together, they just has like ideas.
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Andreas Vesalius published a seven-volume book called On the Fabric of the Human Body the helped readers understand the way the human body worked.
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The Scientific Revolution was a turning point in thinking the led to rapid increase in peoples understanding of the world.
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Copernicus had no tools or mathematics to prove the his theory was true. But with the help of Johannes Kepler, a German astronomer, Galileo Galilei, and an Italian scientist, they found the Heliocentric Theory to be true. Laws of Planetary motion was published.
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English philosopher and scientist Francis Bacon lived around the same time as Descartes. He believed that scientific theories could be developed only through observations. He also thought that no assumption could be trusted unless it could be proven by repeatable experiments. In 1620, he published the Novum Organum that stated a new system of knowledge.
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Galileo built the telescope - published his findings that caused an uproar. Scholars still believed in Ptolemy's old theory and refused to accept, people say it contradicted the Bible, and some even say that the telescope was an invention of the devil.
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French philosopher and mathematician René Descartes was a leader of the Scientific Revolution. He felt that no assumptions should be accepted without question, he then created the Discourse on Method. He also created a mathematical description of the way light reflects from smooth surfaces.
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Robert Boyle shows that temperature and pressure affect the space that gas occupies.
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An English Scientist Isaac Newton published a book of Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo's findings.
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English chemist Joseph Priestley discovered the element oxygen. Antonine Lavoisier, a French scientist, later named it. Before Lavoisier, people though fire was an element. Priestley and Lavoisier tested this and made their discoveries.
