The drastic change in scientific thought, new view of nature emerged
Pre-CopernicanOrigins
Also called as Geocentric system
Anaximander of miletus
Greek philosopher where origins if thinking is traced from
Pythagoras
Suggested the earth was a sphere
Plato
Explained that the cosmos were made of geometric shapes circling around the earth
Aristotle
Supposed the earth was the center of the universe with all other celestial bodies in concentric crystalline
Ptolemy
Refined the explanation behind the movement of the planet and it was accepted that the earth was unmoving while the sun, planets, stars revolved around it
CopernicanSystem
Also called as Heliocentric system
Nicolaus Copernicus
Developed the Heliocentric model/system
Nicolaus copernicus
Father of Modern Astronomy
Nicolaus Copernicus
Proposed that the sun is the center of the universe while the earth's rotation caused the risinv and setting of the sun and of the seasons
Retrograde Motion
Occasional backward movement of the planets
Heliocentricmodel
A model that proposed that the sun is the center of the universe and not the earth
Tycho Brahe
He Combined the copernican and ptolemaic systems and was called geoheliocentrism or the tychonic system
Johannes Kepler
He Proposed his law of planetary motions including the theory that planet move in elliptical orbits
Galileo Galilei
He Published a book reinforcing that the earth revolved around the sun
Isaac newton
He provided the first mathematical equations to prove copernicus's notions
Giordano Bruno
Spread Copernicus's theory of a heliocentric and Scientific Universe
Robert Boyle
He is considered as the father of modern chemistry
Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek
Father of microbiology
Francis Bacon
A staunch supporter of the empirical method and inductive reasoning
Rene Descartes
A french mathematician and philosopher who practiced deductive reasonings and the scientific method
Ersamus Darwin
He quietly brought the idea of evolution to England and France; the grandfather of Charles Darwin
Zoonomia
Also called as the laws of organic life. Contains theories about evolution and suggested that the earth is much older than the timeline based om biblical origin
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Age of charles darwin when he entered Edinburgh University to study medicine
Robert Edmond Grant
He is an anatomist and zoologist and a radical evolutionist. He is the follower of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Adam Sedgwick and John Stevens Henslow
They are prominent people that influenced charles darwin
Adam Sedgwick
He did geolocical researnd and mapping the strata of wales with charles darwin
Henslow
Went on a voyage with darwin to Tierra Del Fuego
Robert Fitzroy
Published Darwin's findings as part of his narrative
ZoologyoftheVoyageoftheHMSBeagle
The title of Fitzroy's narrative about the voyage
Natural Selection
A process where species adapt to the changing environment to survive
On the Origin of SpeciesbyMeans of Natural Selection
Darwin's book that talks about his theory about evolution
Father of Evolution
Charles Darwin is also known for his title as the
Richard Owen and John Gould
The two experts who scrutinized Darwin's findings
DarwinianRevolution
Ended the Copernican Revolution
Evolutionary Biology
Origin of life and diversification/adaptation of life
Neo-darwinism
Reconciles Evolution and Heredity
Philosophy of Biology
Relates biology to classic issues in Philosophy of Science