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