Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment Thinkers

Where was Nicolaus Copernicus from, and what was his major contribution?

• • Poland; Heliocentric Model of the Solar System

• • Italy; Telescope Observations

• • Germany; Laws of Planetary Motion

• • England; Theory of Gravity

Where was Johannes Kepler from, and what was his major contribution?

• • England; Laws of Motion

• • Poland; Heliocentric Model

• • Italy; Telescope Observations

• • Germany; Laws of Planetary Motion

Where was Galileo Galilei from, and what was his major contribution?

• • Italy; Telescope Observations and Support of Heliocentric Theory

• • Poland; Heliocentric Model

• • England; Scientific Method

• • France; Periodic Table

Where was Isaac Newton from, and what was his major contribution?

• • Italy; Laws of Planetary Motion

• • Poland; Heliocentric Model

• • England; Laws of Motion and Universal Gravitation

• • Germany; Telescope Observations

Where was Francis Bacon from, and what was his major contribution?

• • Germany; Boyle’s Law

• • Italy; Human Anatomy

• • France; Rationalism

• • England; Development of the Scientific Method

Where was Zacharias Janssen from, and what was his major contribution?

• • Netherlands; Invention of the Microscope

• • Italy; Telescope Observations

• • Germany; Chemistry

• • France; Laws of Gravity

Where was Andreas Vesalius from, and what was his major contribution?

• A) Belgium; Contributions to Anatomy

• B) England; Laws of Motion

• C) Italy; Telescope Observations

• D) France; Chemistry

• • England; Laws of Motion

• • Belgium; Contributions to Anatomy

• • Italy; Telescope Observations

• • France; Chemistry

Where was William Harvey from, and what was his major contribution?

• • Poland; Heliocentric Model

• • England; Discovery of Blood Circulation

• • Germany; Boyle’s Law

• • France; Laws of Motion

Where was Robert Boyle from, and what was his major contribution?

• • Ireland; Boyle’s Law in Chemistry

• • France; Periodic Table

• • Italy; Telescope Observations

• • Poland; Planetary Motion

1. Where was Antoine Lavoisier from, and what was his major contribution?

• • England; Universal Gravitation

• • Italy; Discovery of Jupiter’s Moons

• • Germany; Boyle’s Law

• • France; Father of Modern Chemistry