The Scientific Revolution

He was a Greek philosopher who gathered facts about plants and animals, then grouped them based on their similarities and differences.

• Ptolemy

• Aristotle

• Thomas Aquinas

• Copernicus

He was an Egyptian-born astronomer who believed that the earth was the center of the universe.

• Aristotle

• Thomas Aquinas

• Isaac Newton

• Ptolemy

He was a Christian thinker who showed that Christianity and reason could work together.

• Isaac Newton

• Ptolemy

• Thomas Aquinas

• Aristotle

He was a Polish astronomer who developed the idea of a sun-centered universe and wrote, "On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres".

• Ptolemy

• Copernicus

• Kepler

• Harvey

He was a German astronomer who used math to support Copernicus's sun-centered theory. He also added that the planets move in oval paths called ellipses and planets do not travel at the same speed.

• Kepler

• Copernicus

• Galileo

• Newton

He was an Italian scientist who improved the telescope and the making of clocks. He also agreed with the sun-centered theory and believed that conducting experiments was the way to achieve scientific knowledge.

• Ptolemy

• Galileo

• Copernicus

• Kepler

He developed the law of gravity.

• Boyle

• Hooke

• Newton

• Vesalius

He studied anatomy by dissecting animals and human beings and was able to describe the human body in detail.

• Vesalius

• Leeuwenhoek

• Boyle

• Lavoisier

He is known as the "Father of microbiology" and examined tiny organisms called bacteria.

• Leeuwenhoek

• Vesalius

• Harvey

• Aristotle

He developed the scientific method.

• Bacon

• Galileo

• Pascal

• Harvey