HACC ch 27 scientists
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Francis Bacon | Philosopher who adapted the scientific method |
| Giovanni Borelli | motion of animals, how bodies move |
| Robert Boyle | discovered oxygen |
| Tycho Brahe | astronomer; believed that the sun orbited the earth |
| Otto Brunfels | botany; studied plants from ITALY & GREECE; didnt understand that certain plants only grew in certain areas |
| Giordano Bruno | infinite universe and worlds |
| Nicolas Copernicus | earth orbited the sun |
| Rene Descartes | geometry and coordinate plane |
| Leonard Fuchs | medicinal plants |
| Galileo | laws of motion, improved telescope, microscope |
| Samuel Hartlib | royal society of london |
| William Harvey | circulation of blood |
| Johannes Kepler | planetary motion; properties of planets |
| Edme Mariotte | studied sap in plants |
| Marcello Malpighi | early microscopic anatomist; studied theory of plants circulation and insects |
| John Napier | mathematician, logarithmic |
| Isaac Newton | developed theory of gravity and laws of motion |
| Simon Stevin | introduced decimal system |
| Evangelista Torricelli | barometer |
| Jan Baptist van Helmont | gas as an element |
| Otto von Guericke | vacuum pump, air pump |
| Andreas Vesalius | founder of modern biology |
| Francois Viete | variables |
| John Wallis | operation of tides; infinity symbol |
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