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Martin Luther
young priest
Split the church from Roman Catholic after seeing the church flaws
John Calvin
priest
concept of predestination
Huldrych Zwingli
believed in child baptism
metaphorical communion
King Henry VIII
split from Catholic church over land ownership
Angelican Church (not very different)
William Tyndale
Garroted for translating bible to English
Nicolaus Copernicus
proposed Heliocentricism
"De Revolutionibus"
Tycho Brahe
collected year of data on planetary motion
planet speed relative to distance from sun
Johannes Kepler
interpreted data for Brahe as mathematician
Galileo Galilei
invented telescope
Sir Isaac Newton
studied gravity
invented Calculus
Ole Romer
found speed of light
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
improved the microscope
studied bacteria (first microbiologist)
William Harvey
studied blood circulation
Rene Descartes
"Discourse on Meathod"
"cogito"-"I think, therefore I am"
Sir Francis Bacon
"Novum Organum"-"Knowledge is Power"
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People of the Protestant Reformation & Scientific Revolution
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People of the Protestant Reformation & Scientific Revolution
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