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Scientific Revolution

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

BRANDON RUTLEDGE

ANDREAS VESALIUS

  • He came from a family of physicians.
  • Both his father and grandfather had served the holy Roman emperor.
  • He liked dissecting animals as a child.
  • His wife's name was Ann van Hamme.

ANDREAS VESALIUS'S DISCOVERIES

  • He dissected human bodies to see how they worked.
  • He wasn't the first one to do it but he was the first to record it.
  • He wrote a book called "On the fabric of the human body".
  • It was one of the most influential books about anatomy.

COPERNICUS

  • He is from German heritage.
  • His father died when he was 10 years old.
  • He had 1 brother and 2 sisters.
  • He didn't have a wife or any children.

COPERNICUS'S DISCOVERIES

  • He was one of the first scientists to discover that the Earth revolved around the Sun.
  • His idea wasn't completely correct but it set a strong foundation for future scientists.
  • He wrote a book called "On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres".
  • It's about how he established that the planets orbited the sun rather than the Earth.
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GALILEO GALILEE

  • He had 6 siblings growing up.
  • He also had 3 children named Livia, Virginia, and Vincenzo.
  • He had a wife named Marina Gamba.

GALILEO'S DISCOVERIES

  • He introduced the theory of inertia into the field of physics.
  • He also discovered that the earth is bound by the same as the heavens.
  • He built a compass made for aiming cannon balls.
  • He built a telescope with 30x magnification.