Scientific Revolution
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
BRANDON RUTLEDGE
ANDREAS VESALIUS
- He came from a family of physicians.
- Both his father and grandfather had served the holy Roman emperor.
- He liked dissecting animals as a child.
- His wife's name was Ann van Hamme.
ANDREAS VESALIUS'S DISCOVERIES
- He dissected human bodies to see how they worked.
- He wasn't the first one to do it but he was the first to record it.
- He wrote a book called "On the fabric of the human body".
- It was one of the most influential books about anatomy.
COPERNICUS
- He is from German heritage.
- His father died when he was 10 years old.
- He had 1 brother and 2 sisters.
- He didn't have a wife or any children.
COPERNICUS'S DISCOVERIES
- He was one of the first scientists to discover that the Earth revolved around the Sun.
- His idea wasn't completely correct but it set a strong foundation for future scientists.
- He wrote a book called "On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres".
- It's about how he established that the planets orbited the sun rather than the Earth.
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GALILEO GALILEE
- He had 6 siblings growing up.
- He also had 3 children named Livia, Virginia, and Vincenzo.
- He had a wife named Marina Gamba.
GALILEO'S DISCOVERIES
- He introduced the theory of inertia into the field of physics.
- He also discovered that the earth is bound by the same as the heavens.
- He built a compass made for aiming cannon balls.
- He built a telescope with 30x magnification.
