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Chloe Taylor
World History Hexter 3
11/16/21
Andreas Vesalius, anatomist, physician, and author wrote one of the most influential books on human anatomy, On the Fabric of the Human Body.
On the fabric of the human body was a huge revolution for its age. A set of books on human anatomy written by Andreas Vesalius. It was a major advance in the history of anatomy.
On the Fabric of the Human Body was important because it changed the way we look at the fabric of the human body.
Nicolaus Copernicus, polish astronomer, placed the sun at the center of the universe and argued that the Earth moved across the heavens as one of the planets.
Written by Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus ) and published just before his death, placed the sun at the center of the universe and argued that the Earth moved across the heavens as one of the planets. Waited more than 30 years to be published.
On the Revolution of Celestial Bodies is important because it offered a vision of the universe as a coherent and integrated system, where all the planets move together in elegant harmony.
In 1609, Galileo introduced both the telescope and the microscope. His first observations with the telescope were published in 1610, in a 24-page booklet entitled Messenger of the Heavens.
Messengers of Heavens is a 24 page booklet that goes into detail the textures of the moons.
The importance of this event isn't fully in the booklet, but in the invention of the microscope and telescope. Both of these things were game changers on medicine and astrology.
In 1620, Francis Bacon details a new system of logic he believes to be superior to the old ways of syllogism in Novum Organum
Novum Organum is a philisophical work in which F. Bacon details a new idea in the ways of logic, the Baconian method. Bacon's method is an example of the application of inductive reasoning.
Novum Organum is important because it is a tool for establishing the clearest, most complete, and most level image of truth based on observation, prior to approaching any problem.
In 1663, Galileo was found guilty of heresy for his Dialogue, and was sent to his home near Florence where he was to be under house arrest for the remainder of his life.
Galileo was placed on house arrest after beong found guilty of hersey for his Dialogue, which is about the ideas of Ptolemy and Copernicus.
Discourse on Method was written to propose a new method of thought, which combines the objective truth of mathematics with the intuitive truths of the senses.
René Descartes published Discourse on Method in 1637. It is a philosophical and autobiographical treatise. It is best known for the quote "Je pense, donc je suis" ("I think, therefore I am", or "I am thinking, therefore I exist")
This is important because it is one of the most influential works in the history of modern philosophy, and to the development of natural sciences.
The Royal Society was founded in 1660 by a group of natural philosophers who had met originally in the mid-1640s to discuss the ideas of Francis Bacon.
The Society had varied interests, from the nature of gravity to investigating whether a spider could be captured within a circle of ground unicorn’s horns. Their concerns, however, was that knowledge be gained from observation and experiment, rather than from preconceived theories.
The Royal Society has been described as laying the foundations of the modern world.
A work expounding Newton's laws of motion and his law of universal gravitation
A work which describes Newton's laws of motion.
Newton's Principia was mainly a description of the laws of planetary motion. However, it also contained more universal material that was to influence the way all science developed. In effect it combined the methods of induction and deduction.