AP Euro: Scientific Revolution
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Copernicus | Wrote "De Revolutionibus Orbium Caelestium" |
| Copernicus | proposes heliocentrism but avoids persecution by church |
| Copernicus | proposes spherical orbits in space |
| Brahe and Kepler | teacher-student |
| Brahe and Kepler | observatory on Danish island |
| Brahe and Kepler | based everything on math to device proof for Copernicus' theory |
| Brahe and Kepler | Laws on planetary motions |
| Brahe and Kepler | elliptical rather than spherical orbits |
| Sir Francis Bacon | premise of a hypothesis, testing, oberservations, conclusions, etc. |
| Sir Francis Bacon | Inductive reasoning (specific to general) |
| Galileo | creates first telescope |
| Galileo | identifies moons of Jupiter and names them |
| Galileo | spends rest of life under house arrest for scientific developments |
| Galileo | laws of motion |
| Parcelsus | discovers and names zinc |
| Parcelsus | advanced medicine |
| Boyle | laws for gasses |
| Boyle | "father of chemistry" |
| Vesalius | assembles skeletons and studied anatomy |
| Vesalius | a great doctor |
| Vesalius | "De humain corporis fabrica" |
| Vesalius | blood cannot pass from one side of the heart to the other through the septum (wall between sides of the heart) |
| Harvey | figured out heart was like a mechanical pump |
| Malpighi | Italian doctor who dissected frogs and discovered blood vessels in the lungs |
| Hooke | cork cells |
| Hooke | discovered refraction |
| Hooke | "Micrographium" |
| Leeuwenhoek | "father of microbiology" |
| Leeuwenhoek | microscopic work of single celled organisms and muscle fibers, bacteria, spermatozoa and blood flow in capillaries |
| Descartes | "Discourse on Method" |
| Descartes | Deductive reasoning (general to specific) |
| Descartes | "I think, therefore I am." |
| Descartes | "Cartesian Dualism" that inspired a lot of followers |
| Descartes | followers called Cartesians |
| Descartes | started movement of "Deism" where everything isn't determined by god |
| Newton | gravity |
| Newton | Laws of Motions (his own name) |
| Newton | Principles of Mathematics (Principia) |
| Newton | First president of Royal Society in England |
| Margaret Cavendish | natural philosopher |
| Margaret Cavendish | cutting edge of salons |
| Merian | studied plants and insects particularly the metamorphosis of a butterfly |
| Winkelman | famous German astronomer |
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