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Medicine/Anatomy
Astronomers
Philosophers
Ideas/Vocab
Superstition Common Life
Scientific Revolution v Superstition
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Who was Nicolaus Copernicus 1473-1543?
He was the Polish astronomer who wrote his, On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres, and challenged the Geocentric theory of Aristotle, Ptolemy, and the Catholic Church.
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Who was Tycho Brahe, (of the silver nose, pet moose,
and exploding bladder fame)?
He was the Danish astronomer, inventor, and flamboyant creator of the Observatory, Fortress of the Heavens, on the island of Hven.
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Who was Maria Cunitz?
She was the German astronomer who could speak 7 languages, published, Urania Propitia, on her astronomical observations and her husband had to write in the preface that she, and not him, had written the book.
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Who was Galileo Galilei?
He was the Italian Scientist, Astronomer, and instrument maker, who developed the laws of falling bodies, and with his telescope observed and wrote about sunspots, the valleys and mountains of the moon, and the four satellites of Jupiter.
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Who was Sir Isaac Newton?
He was the brilliant scientist and mathematician who was appointed head of the Royal Society of London and wrote, Principia Mathematica, which explained the motions and movement of the planets.
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Who was William Harvey?
He was the English Physician for James I and Charles I who formulated the theory of the body’s circulatory system. ( Some say first formulated by Physician Michael Servetus, who had the copies of his manuscript burned up along with Michael himself ).
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Who was Andreas Vesalius?
He was the Flemish physician, anatomist, who was educated by the Brotherhood of Modern Devotion, who wrote, On The Workings of the Human Body.( He is considered by many to be the Father of Modern Anatomy )
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Who was Robert Hooke?He was the English inventor and scientist who developed, The Law of Elasticity, used his microscope to develop the cellular theory, helped design, with Christopher Wren, London after the fire of 1666, and had a running feud with Isaac Newton.
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Who was Ambrose Pare?
He was the Physician and Surgeon for Charles IX, Henry II and III, as well as Francis II ( not a great record considering their early deaths), considered by many to be one of the Fathers of Modern Surgery, who developed an antiseptic made from Turpentine.
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Who was Edward Jenner?
He was the English country Doctor who inoculated several of his patients with cow pox vaccine and discovered a vaccine for small pox.
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Who was Thomas Hobbes?
He was the author of, The Leviathan, which describes the social contract between the governed and the ruler. He also translated Thucydides’, History of the Peloponnesian War into English.
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SUBJECT: Philosophers
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Who was John Locke?
He was the English Physician, who in his essay, Letter on Toleration, advised religious toleration and described the human mind as a tabula rasa, or blank slate, in his Essay of Human Understanding, as well as describing natural rights in his Two Treatises of Government.
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Who was Sir Francis Bacon?
He was the Englishman who advocated the use of observation and experimentation and believed that the old techniques of Aristotle and Socrates to arrive at the truth had serious flaws.
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Who was Rene Descartes?
He was the French philosopher and mathematician who in his Discourse on Methods stated that all things in the universe can be explained using Math and logic.
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What was the Royal Society of London ?
This was one of the earliest and the most famous of the scientific groups that grew out of a community of scientific intellectual founded in 1660.
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What was elliptical orbits?
This was what Johannes Kepler stated was the orbit of planets according to the date he collected at Tycho Brahe’s observatory and using mathematical calculations.
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What was Differential Calculus?
This was the mathematics developed by both Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Liebniz, at the same time, independently of each other in different parts of Europe.
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What is empiricism?
This is the philosophical belief proposed and written about by John Locke, Sir Francis Bacon, and David Hume that all human truth is discovered by experience or observation.
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What is rationalism?
This is the belief proposed and written about by Rene Descartes and Baruch Spinoza that asserts that the mind is capable of recognizing reality by means of the reason, a faculty that exists independent of experience.
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What is the Scientific Method?
This is the process of stating the problem, gathering the information or data, forming a hypothesis or educated guess, experimentation to test the data, recording and analyzing, drawing conclusions, and then repeat steps.
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What were Earth, Fire, Air, and Water?
These were the four elements that Aristotle and most of Europe made up the world prior to the Scientific Revolution.
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What was alchemy?
This was the Medieval science and profession that stated that a substance existed, that was the prefect combination of the four elements, that would enable a knowledgeable person to be able to convert substances into gold and silver.
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What was malificium?
This was name for harmful magic and diabolical witchcraft.
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A Mighty Fortress is Our God?
This was the hymn written by Martin Luther and still sung in churches today which refers to the devil and states that one little word can slay him. ( let alone nailing him with other substances)
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What was midwifery and midwives?
This was the profession that was responsible for most of the births in Europe well into the 18th century and making a comeback today in many areas of the world.
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