Maria Sybilla Merian: Metamorphosis of the Insects of Suriana: standard of entomology
Royal Society The Royal Society of London brought together the greatest minds of the region in efforts to advance science through cooperation. The Royal Society of London, and other scientific societies that grew up in Europe during the later seventeenth century, contributed greatly to the scientific progress made during that period.
John Wallis Wallis' work, Arithmetica Infinitum, published in 1655, set the stage for the invention and development of differential calculus: this work went on to be one of Isaac Newton's major influences. Wallis (1616-1703) was the first mathematician to apply mathematics to the operation of the tides, and also invented the symbol used to denote infinity.
Leonard Fuchs A Botanist of the sixteenth century, Fuchs (1501-1566) produced a guide to collecting medical plants that is considered a landmark in the history of natural observation. His woodcut prints are the most beautiful and accurate of the period.
Universal Gravitation The cornerstone of Newton's explanation of the organization of the universe, the law of universal gravitation states that every particle of matter attracts every other particle with a force proportional to the product of the two masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them
Scientific Revolution
Galen: Greek Physician
Four humors: blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile
Purging and bleeding
Nicholas Copernicus: On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
Heliocentric: sun-centered
Ptolemy: Copernicus: Earth centered
Tycho Brahe: observation off the coast of Denmark
Johannes Kepler: Brahe’s novice
Elliptical paths
Three laws of planetary motion
Galileo Galilei: Starry Messenger
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems; Ptolemaic and Copernican
Isaac Newton: Principia Mathematic: obey three laws of motion
Universal law of gravitation
Calculus
Andreas Vesalius: The Structure of the Human Body
William Harvey: Developed the modern theory of blood flow
Francis Bacon: Instauratio Magna (The Great Renewal)
New Atlantis
Rene Descartes: “I think; therefore, I am.”
Dualism: intangible: mind; Tangible: tangible: matter
Discourse on Method: deductive approach
Maria Winkelmann: discovered a comet
Maria Sybilla Merian: Metamorphosis of the Insects of Suriana: standard of entomology
Royal Society The Royal Society of London brought together the greatest minds of the region in efforts to advance science through cooperation. The Royal Society of London, and other scientific societies that grew up in Europe during the later seventeenth century, contributed greatly to the scientific progress made during that period.
John Wallis Wallis' work, Arithmetica Infinitum, published in 1655, set the stage for the invention and development of differential calculus: this work went on to be one of Isaac Newton's major influences. Wallis (1616-1703) was the first mathematician to apply mathematics to the operation of the tides, and also invented the symbol used to denote infinity.
Leonard Fuchs A Botanist of the sixteenth century, Fuchs (1501-1566) produced a guide to collecting medical plants that is considered a landmark in the history of natural observation. His woodcut prints are the most beautiful and accurate of the period.
Universal Gravitation The cornerstone of Newton's explanation of the organization of the universe, the law of universal gravitation states that every particle of matter attracts every other particle with a force proportional to the product of the two masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them
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