Scientific Ideas

• Copernicus: believed the earth was round and revolved around the sun.
• Kepler: discovered planets move in oval paths (ellipses)
• Galileo: saw moons around Jupiter, Earth around the sun
• Francis Bacon: created the scientific method
• Descartes: Math man
• Vesalius - Harvey: blood circulates through the body
• Hooke: discovered cells
• Boyle: defined an element
• Priestly: worked on carbonated drinks
• Hobbes: Absolute monarchy is best
• Locke: People have rights