Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
Ryan's nickname: "The Empiricist." Bacon advocated for empirical research, using the scientific method, rather than speculation like with Aristotle. He was greatly influential, becoming "lord chancellor" under James 1.
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Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564)
Ryan's nickname: "The AV dissector." He wrote "On the Structure of the Human Body", a massive compilation of information from countless dissections of human bodies, often executed criminals. Aristotle believed that the body had four "humors": blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile, and an imbalance of the four humors caused illness. Therefore, doctors prescribed bloodletting.
Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
Ryan's nickname: "The Empiricist." Bacon advocated for empirical research, using the scientific method, rather than speculation like with Aristotle. He was greatly influential, becoming "lord chancellor" under James 1.
Ryan's nickname: "The Empiricist." Bacon advocated for empirical research, using the scientific method, rather than speculation like with Aristotle. He was greatly influential, becoming "lord chancellor" under James 1.
Robert Boyle
Irish chemist who established that air has weight and whose definitions of chemical elements and chemical reactions helped to dissociate chemistry from alchemy (1627-1691)
Isaac Newton
Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564)
William Harvey (1578-1657)
Ryan's nickname: "Blood guy." He discovered the circulatory system, with the heart as a pump & valves.
Ryan's nickname: "Blood guy." He discovered the circulatory system, with the heart as a pump & valves.
