the scientific revolution: breakthroughs in medicine and chemistry galen – greek physician who...
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The Scientific Revolution: Breakthroughs in Medicine and Chemistry
Galen – Greek physician who relied on animals for dissection
Andreas Vesalius – based on observations from dissecting human beings
William Harvey – added to Vesalius’s discoveries over the body Announced blood circulates
through the body
The Scientific Revolution: Breakthroughs in Medicine and Chemistry
Robert Hooke Discovered the first cell
Robert Boyle Alchemist – tried to transform metals into precious metals Believed earth was composed of four elements
Joseph Priestly Discovered the existence of oxygen
Antoine Lavoisier – founder of modern Chemistry Wife Marie translated scientific essays from English and
Latin Helped her husband learn more
The Scientific Revolution: Women and the Origins of Modern Science
Margaret Cavendish – prominent female scientist
Maria Winkelmann – astronomer Discovered a comet Could not get a position at the Berlin
Academy because she was a woman
The Scientific Revolution: Descartes and Reason Rene Descartes
French Philosopher Wrote about doubt and
confusion of 1600s “I think, therefore I am” Separation of mind and
body came from this principle
Called the father of modern rationalism—system of thought based on the belief that reason is the chief source of knowledge.