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Nima Khatib

The Scientific Revolution


 * Tycho Brahe: Compromised Copernicus and Ptolemy’s ideas, the sun and planets revolved around the Earth, while the other planets revolve around the sun
 *  Galileo: made systematic observations about the planets with a telescope, made many new discoveries about moons and planets
 * Newton & Principia: Principia explained the mathematical proofs on his laws of gravitation
 * Vesalius & his works: dissected human bodies to find out how they work
 * Galen: A physician, animal dissection to help human studies; 4 humors: blood, yellow bile, black bile, and phlegm
 * Rene Descartes: Discourse on Method: Senses can be easily deceived, only accepts things that have a reason to be true; “I think, therefore I am
 * Harvey & his works: the heart not the liver was the center of the human body
 * Pascal & his works: wanted to keep science and religion together; invented a calculating machine
 * Sci. Method: Hypothesis, experiment, result
 * Ptolemaic Theory: A synthesis of ideas of Aristotle and Christian theology
 * Copernicus: // On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres //
 *  Vesalius: // On the Fabric of the Human Body  //, anatomical treatise 
 * <span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt;">Winklemann: <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">woman astronomer, Tinkle winkle
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> Spinoza: <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">kicked from synagogue
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Cavendish: man is a very small part of nature
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">heliocentric: sun centered conception of the universe
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Paracelsus: human is a small replica of the world around him