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Several European scientists helped to shape the modern study of these important sciences.
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The astronomer Ptolemy stated that Earth was the enter of the universe.
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As students explored and observed the world more, they found that they could create better materials that would help society.
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As students spent more time examining the world round them, they observed things that did not agree with traditional explanation.
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The ability to conduct experiments was key to this new approach to learning.
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Polish scientist Nicolaus Copernicus began to abandon Ptolemy`s theory geocentric theory. Instead, he argued that the sun was the center of the universe.
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Isaac Newton developed a new branch of mathematics called calculus.
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Andreas Vesalius, Pioneered the study of anatomy.
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English philosopher Francis Bacon believed that scientific theories could be developed only through observation and could be proven by repeatable experiments.
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French philosopher and mathematician Rene Descartes was a leader of the Scientific Revolution. His ideas led to great advances in mathematics, the sciences, and philosophy.
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English-Irish scientist Robert Boyle, showed that temperature and pressure affect the space that a gas occupies.
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Priestley and Lavoisier made their discoveries in the late 1700`s.
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By the 1700´s, the scientific approach had spread across Europe.
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Speed of discovery, rapid spread, and exchange of knowledge were important characteristics of the Scientific Revolution resulting, in part, from the printing press, the rise of scientific societies, and other communications improvements.
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An English chemist, Joseph Priestley, discovered the element oxygen.