! Published On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres in year of his death. ! Claimed that Earth rotates on axis and orbits sun. ! 60 years after his death only 15 astronomers accepted his theory.
alchemist. ! Built and ran astronomical observatories where he collected accurate astronomical data. ! Developed hybrid geocentric/heliocentric model of universe.
revolve around these. Living beings inhabit these worlds.” ! Dominican monk, astronomer, mathematician, astrologer. ! Publically defended Copernican theory and his own cosmological speculations. ! Burned to death by Papal authorities for heresy.
! Used telescope to examine sun, planets and moon. ! Studied physics of falling objects. ! Publically argued for his theories, but recanted under threat from church.
to Tycho Brahe. ! Developed mathematical laws of planetary motion based on Brahe’s data. ! Thought planetary orbits fit into nested regular solids. ! Studied optics in relation to astronomy and anatomy.
! Developed analytic geometry – the Cartesian coordinate system. ! Studied optics and physiology. ! Provided a philosophical basis for the new science.
Formulated law of universal gravitation, unifiying laws of motion on earth and in heavens. ! Developed the calculus to describe continuous change mathematically. ! Studied optics and developed reflecting telescope.
of things. ! Everything has a purpose and nature. ! The universe is governed by divine intentions. After ! There is nothing special about where we are. ! Purposes are human impositions on things. ! The universe is governed by abstract mathematical laws.
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