Scientific Revolution Review

Dutch eyeglass maker who created one of the first microscopes in the 1590s

• Zacharias Janssen

• Evangelista Torricelli

• Galileo Galilei

• Rene Descartes

Published On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres in which he proposed a heliocentric model of the universe

• Johannes Kepler

• Tycho Brahe

• Robert Boyle

• Nicolas Copernicus

Set up an astronomical observatory and provided evidence to confirm the ideas of Nicolaus Copernicus.

• Tycho Brahe

• Ambroise Pare

• Rene Descartes

• Sir Francis Bacon

Calculated the orbits of the planets revolving around the sun and showed that each planet does not move in a perfect circle but rather an ellipse

• Ambroise Paré

• Giordano Bruno

• Johannes Kepler

• Galileo Galilei

Published On the Structure of the Human Body, the first accurate and detailed study of human anatomy.

• Andreas Vesalius

• Ambroise Pare

• William Harvey

• Sir Francis Bacon

After describing the circulation of blood in the human body for the first time, he showed how the heart serves as a pump to force blood through veins and arteries.

• Anton van Leeuwenhoek

• William Harvey

• Andreas Vesalius

• Rene Descartes

Creates the mercury barometer that measures atmospheric pressure and predicts weather

• Evangelista Torricelli

• Gabriel Fahrenheit

• Anders Celsius

• Anders Celsius

Attacked medieval scholars for relying too heavily on the conclusions of Aristotle and other ancient thinkers

• Sir Francis Bacon

• Rene Descartes

• Gabriel Fahrenheit

• Zacharias Janssen

After perfecting the single lens microscope, this scientist was the first human to see cells and microorganisms.

• Robert Boyle

• Andreas Vesalius

• Anton van Leeuwenhoek

• Johannes Kepler

Developed a new, more effective ointment for preventing infection and better ways to seal wounds during surgery.

• Ambroise Paré

• Robert Boyle

• Tycho Brahe    

• Johannes Kepler