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Scientific Revolution (1500's through 1700s)

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1473
- Copernicus
  - HELIOCENTRISM
  - Sun=Center
1564
- Galileo
  - Father of Modern Astronomy
  - Universe is in motion
  - House arrest for ideas under Roman inquisition
1668
- Redi
  - life from living matter
    - meat & flies
      - maggots do not form on meat
      - flies must contact meat
    - disproved spontaneous generation
1758
- Linnaeus
  - Father of modern taxonomy
    - binomial nomenclature
    - hierarchical classification of living things
      - ~10 000 species
    - Systema Naturae
      - Anthropomorpha (later Primates)
        humans, apes, monkeys, sloths
        Homo: orangutans & chimps & humans
        implied that humans were animals too
1760
- Leclerc
  - Hey, how old is earth actually?
    - species distribution depend on
      - geography
      - climate
  - microevolution yas!
    - species can change
      - How? I dunno man
    - macroevolution, nah bro
      - species cannot give rise to new species
1780
- Georges Cuvier
  - Father of Paleontology
    - comparative anatomy
    - EXTINCTION IS A FACT (using fossils)
      - CATASTROPHISM
        environment change severe and sudden
        immigration
        Species don't change