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