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| Nicolaus Copernicus | Polish scholar who proposed the heliocentric (sun-centered) model of the universe |
| Galileo | Italian who assembled an astronomical telescope. He observed 4 moons of Jupiter. His ideas challenged the church's idea that the heavens were fixed. |
| Isaac Newton | proposed the idea of gravity - that it was the force that keeps the planets in their orbits. Published "Mathematical Principles of Natural philosophy" |
| René Descartes | challenged Aristotle's scientific |
| Andreas Vesalius | published the first accurate & detailed study of human anatomy |
| Ambroise Paré | French physician developed a new and effective ointment for preventing infection |
| William Harvey | English scholar who described the circulation of the blood for first time |
| Anthony van Leeuwenhoek | perfected the microscope and became first human to see cells and microorganisms |
| heliocentric | sun-centered model: The sun sits at the center of the universe. |
| hypothesis | an educated guess that was part of the new step-by-step processto be tested with further observation or experimentation |
| scientific method | Step by step process of discovery (see next quia activity) |
