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Science during the Renaissance

May 31st, 2008 by Mr. Dorrough and tagged , , , ,

Nicolaus Coperemicus

Lived (Years he was alive)

1473 to 1543

Place (Where he was from)

Torun, Poland

Personality and Training

  • Creative and Free thinking
  • Studied at the University of Kraow
  • Studied Medicine, law and astronomy in Italy

Talents and Achievements

  • Was good at observations
  • Wrote about what he really saw not just what he was supposed to see
  • Introduced the idea that the Earth and the other plane revolved around the sun

Andreas Vesalius

lived (Years he was alive)

1514 to 1564

Place (Where he was from)

Brussels, Belgium

Personality and Training

  • Hard Working
  • Curious
  • Earned a Medical Degree

Talents and Achievements

  • Good Observer and Thinker
  • Studied dead human bodies making many discoveries like the 4 chambers of the human heart
  • Wrote the first modern medical textbook

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Continuing on about Islamic Contributions

March 6th, 2008 by Mr. Dorrough and tagged , , , , , , , , , ,

We continued our study of the contributions of Islam to civilization .

For our warm up we read sections 10.6 through 10.8.

In class we worked in partners to examine the placards around the room and write about them.

Some of the topics were:

  1. Calligraphy
  2. Geography and Navigation
  3. Irrigation
  4. Literature
  5. Math
  6. Medicine
  7. Music
  8. Polo
  9. Zoology

For First and Fifth periods the homework was to answer all f the essential questions.

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