News0 min ago
Medicine and Science 1500-1750
Anything about science or medicine between the years 1500-1750?
Answers
Best Answer
No best answer has yet been selected by lala_pol. Once a best answer has been selected, it will be shown here.
For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.where does one start? virtually everything. most of the stuff you learn in primary school anyway. In science: Galileo (telescope, promotion of the heliocentric universe, pendulum as timekeeper, constant acceleration of bodies falling to earth, rejection of aristotelian motion, divorce of learning and theology)
Newton (Laws of motion, Principia (best peice of maths for 200 years each way-invented calculus), bunch of stuff to do with optics)
Leeuwenhoek (invented the microscope)
Hooke (physics, behaviour of springs, micrographia, first use of microscope as teaching tool)
Robert Boyle (invented chemistry)
Newcomen (first atmospheric engine-protosteam engine)
-- answer removed --
-- answer removed --
-- answer removed --