COPERNICUS GALILEO BOYLE NEWTON

SCIENCE AND ITS METHOD IN MODERN ERA

By Alejandro Cruz

The Aristotle paradigm was established until Renaissance.Technological stagnation in Europe due to wars, epidemics, etc. Humanity achieved a significant leap. Nicolas Copernicus postulated a model where the earth and the rest of the planets revolve around the sun.

NICOLAUS COPERNICOUS

Acknowledged for retaking the proposal of the heliocentric theory It took him 25 years to develop his heliocentric model. The sun was at the center of the universe and the Earth rotated once a day on its axis and completed each year a circle around it.

1473-1543

GALILEO GALILEI

Pioneer of the experimental scientific methodFirst to use a reflecting telescope. He argued that the Earth revolves around the sun showing evidence. He was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Holy Inquisition

SCIENTISTS

Galileo Galilei

Galileo also discovered the laws of accelerated motion and the laws of the pendulum, and he conducted experiments in the Cathedral of Pisa.

Robert Boyle

He made the first experiments on the transformation of matter.His method allowed the reproduction of experiments. He refuted the theory of the four elements. He proposed the concept of fundamental particles.

ISAAC NEWTON

He exposes the theory of force at a distance or universal gravitation in his book Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy.His majestic equation:

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