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| 5539376305 | Rene Descartes | French philosopher and mathematician 17th century French philosopher; wrote "Discourse on Method" and "Mind over Matter" Impericism/Slepticism Known as father of modern rationalism. Deductive reasoning: based on a series of occurances and/or patterns |  | 0 |
| 5539376306 | William Harvey | English physician who used lab experiments to study the circulation of blood and its flow through arteries and veins as well as the heart., determined that the heart not the liver pumps blood, which circulates through body; wrote "On the motion of Heart and Blood" |  | 1 |
| 5539376307 | Nicolaus Copernicus | The Polish scientist who worked in the 1500s. He abandoned the largely accepted geocentric theory that the planets moved around Earth and advocated the heliocentric theory, which stated that the center of the universe was near the Sun. This made it easier to predict orbits. "On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres" |  | 2 |
| 5539376308 | Francis Bacon | English philosopher, and scientist. Advocated for a system of scientific experimentation This led to the development of the scientific method., Used inductive reasoning: reasoning by experiments, mathematics, and observation |  | 3 |
| 5539376309 | Andreas Vesalius | Flemish scientist who pioneered the study of anatomy and provided detailed overviews of the human body and its systems. Wrote "On the Fabric of the Human Body" which explained human anatomy |  | 4 |
| 5539376310 | Isaac Newton | English scientist and author of works explaining the law of universal gravitation and means of measuring motion. His work inspired the notion of natural and universal laws ordering and arranging life. Suggested that the planets follow the same gravitational laws as earthly objects. Wrote "Principia" |  | 5 |
| 5539376311 | Galileo Galilei | Italian scientist , used telescopes proved the sun is the center of the solar system and that the planets/moon move. He was persecuted as a heretic for writing contrary to the Ptolemaic model. Wrote "The Starry Messenger" |  | 6 |
| 5539376312 | Tycho Brahe | A Danish astronomer (1546-1601) made accurate oberservations about the planets., produced large amounts of astromatical data but believed that other planets rotated around the sun while the sun and moon rotated around the earth |  | 7 |
| 5539376313 | Johannes Kepler | A German astronomer (1571-1630) set forth the first astronomical model showing the orbits as elliptical. Wrote: 3 Laws of Planetary Motion which reinforced the heliocentric theory |  | 8 |
| 5539376314 | Ptolemaic Universe | A still earth is at the center of universe with 9 revolving spheres around it |  | 9 |
| 5539376315 | Heliocentric Universe | sun center of universe; developed by copernicus |  | 10 |
| 5539376316 | "Principia" | Newton created calculus and his book explained it. |  | 11 |
| 5539376319 | Scientific Method | a method of research in which a problem is identified, relevant data are gathered, a hypothesis is formulated from these data, and the hypothesis is empirically tested |  | 12 |
| 5539376320 | Scientific Revolution | The intellectual movement in Europe, initially associated with planetary motion and other aspects of physics, that by the seventeenth century had laid the groundwork for modern science. |  | 13 |
| 5539376321 | Robert Boyle | proved that the volume of gas changes with pressure |  | 14 |
| 5539376323 | Margaret Cavendish | One of the most prominent female scientists of the 17th century. She wrote a number of books on scientific matters, including Observations Upon Experimental Philosophy. |  | 15 |
| 5539376325 | rationalism | the theological doctrine that human reason rather than divine revelation establishes truth |  | 16 |
