Science E-Health magazine 1st edition February 2014 | Page 5
Bonus to
humanity!
Did you know that…
Nicolaus Copernicus
(1473-1543)
Nicolaus Copernicus was
one of the first one who
had the initiative to
revolutionize the world by
stating that the church,
“The main leaders” were
wrong about certain
theories that were said to
be true. He is famous for
his heliocentric theory,
which stated that the sun
was the center of the
universe, not the Earth.
This caused commotion in
those times since
disobeying the church was
like talking back to your
parents or even worse.
Since him, many followed
his steps and humans
were able to discover and
plant new theories that
even help us out today.
Andreas Vesalius developed what is known today as
anatomy. He specialized in medicine. His explanations came
out from studying monkeys. He gave new principles to
medicine and began teaching humans on how to become
doctors.
Anton Von Leeuwenhoek is known to be the creator of the
microscope. He began to study bacteria’s with the
microscope and later on began explaining why we died a lot.
He inspired biology alongside medicine and began telling
the world about viruses.
Johannes Kepler made a huge discovery about telescopes
and how they worked. He also explained a little about the
solar system and how planets rotated upon it´s very own
axis. (Astronomy)
Paracelsus made contributions to medicine by beginning to
use minerals and chemicals to make it more effective. He
made the theory of Toxicology. He wrote that all things are
poison and there is nothing without poison and only a dose
would not let anything be poisonous.
Galileo Galilei made the pendulum theory. He changed the
world since he wondered how things worked, the size, the
laws that could let it happen etc.
Francis Bacon affected the way people viewed the world he
had particular ways to analyze and understand information
and also making experiments.
Rene Descartes knew a lot about relationship between mind
and body. His ancient theories are some principles of what
is today mathematics.
Isaac Newton, known as the most influential scientist of the
17th century, he created the basis for modern physics. He
created the famous laws of gravity which state that objects
will not change unless acted upon by another force.
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