YEFP: Scientific Revolution Topics

Beneath each topic is a list of some of sub-topics that should be included in your summary. Pick and choose accordingly, but remember that only one or two people/inventions will not be enough to fully explain the innovations of each area during this time period.

Astronomy/Mapmaking

• Copernicus
• Kepler
• Galileo
• Newton
• Mercator
• Huygens
• Kepler
• Brahe
  

Medicine/Chemistry

• Vesalius
• Lavoisier
• Galileo
• Newton
• Jenner
• Malpighi/Harvey
• Cowper
• Paracelsus
  

Inventions

• microscope (van Leeuwenhoek, Hooke, Culpepper)
  
• barometer (Torricelli)
  
• thermometer (Galileo Galilei)
  

Scientific Method/Struggles Between Science & Religion

• Description of the S.M.
• Galileo
• Bacon
• Newton