SCIENCE IN THE RENAISSANCE

TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPED

• The telescope
• Spectacles and Eyeglasses
• The clock
• Guns and Cannons
• The flush toilet

MEDICINE

• Treatments began to rely less on divine powers
• Scientific method began to be used in medicine
• Most surgeries were preformed by barbers

MEDICINE Ii

• Major medicine pioneer was Paracelsus.
• He thought certain diseases came from
• Certain outside agents, and needed certain
• Remedies. He began using chemical and
• Mineral solutions to treat illnesses.

SCIENTIFIC METHOD

• Process of inductive reasoning developed during Renaissance
• Developed by Francis Bacon
• Francis Bacon was greatly influenced by Galileo Galilei
• as well as Nicolaus Copernicus
• Scientific method has become the foundation of scientific thinking.

SCIENTISTS DURING THE RENAISSANCE

• Leonardo Da Vinci
• Nicholas Copernicus
• Galileo Galilei
• Johannes Kepler

LEONARDO DA VINCI

• Artist as well as a scientist (Mona Lisa)
• Loved the idea of flight, drew models of complicated machines
• Drew the first pictures of the helicopter
• First man to discover circulation of blood
• His studies of medicine were never published

GALILEO GALILEI

• Made a very early model of the thermometer
• He created the first telescope
• His discoveries in astronomy opposed the Catholic Church
• Supported Copernicus' theory of a heliocentric universe

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