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Ptolemy believed that the Earth was in the center of the Earth. This is known as the geocentric or "Earth-Centered" theory.
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People thought that science was magic
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Before the scientific revolution, people thought that science was all a myth and through religion
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Nicolaus Copernicus thought that the sun was in the center of the universe instead of earth centered. This was called heliocentric or "sun-centered".
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Copernicus published his theory, but people did not believe him since they "felt" that the Earth was in the center.
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Vesalius published a book on his findings about the human body called On the Fabric of the Human Body..
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Antoni van Leeuwenhoek used the microscope to discover bacteria.
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People thought that the word science meant "to know"
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Johannes Kepler proved Copernicus' heliocentric theory right through math.
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Francis Bacon published a book about his thoughts on finding science called Novum Organum.
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Galileo Galileo proved Copernicus' heliocentric theory right because of the telescope
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Descartes published a book named Discourse on Method.
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Rene Descartes dies in the Protestant kingdom of Sweden.
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Robert Boyle showed that temperature and pressure affect the space that a gas occupies.
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Issac Newton published a book on Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo's findings.
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Joseph Priestly discovered the element of oxygen where Antoine Lavoisier later named it.