Key Figures of the Scientific Revolution

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Key Figures of the Scientific Revolution

• By Jenny Allen and Sara Riggs

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Andreas Vesalius

• Andreas Vesalius was born on December 31, 1514.
• He was born in Brussels.
• Vesalius studied anatomy.
• His schooling consisted of School of the Brothers
  of Common Life, University of Louvain, University
  of Paris, and the University of Padua.
• Vesalius died on October 15, 1564.

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Vesalius

• Studied surgery and anatomy and published an
  anatomical manual, thus contributing to the
  Scientific Revolution.
• Wrote about the discovery and therapeutic use of
  china root in the treatment of syphilis
• Introduced a new procedure, the surgically
  induced draining of emphysema.
• During the Enlightenment he invented new cures
  and surgeries. People were focusing more on
  people than other things, so this helped.

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Copernicus

• Copernicus was born on February 24, 1473.
• Copernicus was born in Poland.
• Studied Astronomy
• Schooling consisted of Torun, Wloclawek,
  University of Krakow
• He died on May 24, 1543.

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Copernicus

• Proposed the idea that the earth rotated on its
  axis daily and traveled around the sun once
  yearly
• Copernicuss work went against much religious and
  philosophical teaching much of the Enlightenment
  thought did also.

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Galileo

• Born on February 15, 1564
• Born in Italy
• Studied Astronomy
• Education in a monastery and the university of
  Pisa.

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Galileo

• Observed things that others had not through his
  telescope.
• Helped develop Scientific Method.
• Tried to find math formulas to solve many things.
  

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Isaac Newton

• Born on January 4, 1643
• Born in England
• Studied Physics
• Was educated in a Free Grammar School in Grantham
  and in Cambridge University
• Died on March 31, 1727

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Isaac Newton

• Calculated orbit times and paths
• Wrote three laws of motion
• Invented universal scientific method
• Discovered gravity
• New scheme of universe

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Kepler

• Born on December 27, 1571
• Born in Germany
• Studied Astronomy
• Was educated at University of Tubingen
• Died on November 15, 1630

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Kepler

• Explained planetary motion
• Explained vision by refraction within the eye
• Made eyeglasses

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William Harvey

• Born in 1578
• Born in England
• Studied physics
• Education consisted of Cambridge University and
  University of Padua
• Died in 1657

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William Harvey

• Studied circulatory system
• Developed theory of how circulatory system works
• Developed theory about reproductive system
• Used hydraulic to get analogies of blood flow

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Carolus Linnaeus

• Born May 23,1707
• Born in Sweden
• He studied Botany
• Education consisted of University of Uppsala and
  University of Lund.
• Died January 10,1778

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Carolus Linnaeus

• Created binomial system
• Discovered 100 botanical species
• Laid foundation for modern scheme of taxonomy

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