Science History

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The Scientific Revolution was a period of cultural, technological, scientific and scholarly transformation in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Johannes Kepler made observations with his own telescopes and published them in "Astronomia Nova."
In 1609, Galileo built his own telescope with an improved magnification power of 3x compared to the original Dutch spyglass.
Galileo Galilei used his own telescopes to observe celestial objects such as stars, planets, moons, sunspots, comets, and nebulae.
Early discoveries challenged fundamental religious beliefs and established an empirical approach to science.
Prominent figures included Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Descartes, and Newton.
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) is known as the father of modern physics
Robert Boyle (1627 - 1691) discovered that gases expand when heated and contract when cooled
**Aristotle**
Contribution: Natural philosophy, early biology
Date: 384-322 BCE
**Hippocrates**
Contribution: Father of Western medicine
Date: 460-375 BCE
**Aristarchus of Samos**
Contribution: Heliocentric model of the solar system
Date: 310-230 BCE
**Herophilos**
Contribution: Pioneer in human anatomy
Date: 335-280 BCE
**Archimedes**
Contribution: Mathematics, physics, engineering inventions
Date: 287-212 BCE
**Ptolemy**
Contribution: Geocentric model of the universe
Date: 90-168 CE
**Claudius Galenus (Galen)**
Contribution: Medical researcher and physician
Date: 130-200 CE
**Alhazen (Ibn al-Haytham)**
Contribution: Optics, scientific method
Date: 965-1040 CE
**Avicenna (Ibn Sina)**
Contribution: Medicine, philosophy
Date: 980-1037 CE
**William Harvey**
Contribution: Circulation of blood
Date: 1578-1657 CE
**Antoine Lavoisier**
Contribution: Father of modern chemistry
Date: 1743-1794 CE
**Carl Linnaeus**
Contribution: Taxonomy, biological classification
Date: 1707-1778 CE
**Joseph Priestley**
Contribution: Discovery of oxygen
Date: 1733-1804 CE
**Edward Jenner**
Contribution: Smallpox vaccination
Date: 1749-1823 CE
**John Dalton**
Contribution: Atomic theory
Date: 1766-1844 CE
**Michael Faraday**
Contribution: Electromagnetism
Date: 1791-1867 CE
**Louis Pasteur**
Contribution: Germ theory, pasteurization
Date: 1822-1895 CE
**Gregor Mendel**
Contribution: Laws of inheritance
Date: 1822-1884 CE
**Charles Darwin**
Contribution: Theory of evolution
Date: 1809-1882 CE
**Marie Curie**
Contribution: Radioactivity, polonium, radium
Date: 1867-1934 CE
**Sigmund Freud**
Contribution: Psychoanalysis
Date: 1856-1939 CE
**Ivan Pavlov**
Contribution: Classical conditioning
Date: 1849-1936 CE
**Robert Koch**
Contribution: Germ theory of disease
Date: 1843-1910 CE
**Niels Bohr**
Contribution: Atomic model
Date: 1885-1962 CE
**Erwin Schrödinger**
Contribution: Schrödinger equation
Date: 1887-1961 CE
**Barbara McClintock**
Contribution: Discovery of transposons
Date: 1902-1992 CE
**Alexander Fleming**
Contribution: Discovery of penicillin
Date: 1881-1955 CE
**Rosalind Franklin**
Contribution: X-ray diffraction of DNA
Date: 1920-1958 CE
**Linus Pauling**
Contribution: Chemistry, peace activism
Date: 1901-1994 CE
**James Clerk Maxwell**
Contribution: Maxwell's equations
Date: 1831-1879 CE
**Thomas Edison**
Contribution: Inventions, electric light bulb
Date: 1847-1931 CE
**Guglielmo Marconi**
Contribution: Radio telegraphy
Date: 1874-1937 CE