Transcript Scientific Revolution- Other Scientists

Zacharias Janssen
Netherlands
Spectacle maker
Invented first microscope 1590
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Netherlands
Observed bacteria (1674)
and
Red blood cells (1675)
Van Leeuwenhoek’s
microscope
Evangelista Torricelli
Italy
1st Mercury barometer (1643)
Measures air pressure, helped
predict the weather
Gabriel Fahrenheit
Poland
1st Mercury Thermometer (1714)
Temperature scale: 32° = Freezing
212° = Boiling
Anders Celsius
Sweden
Astronomer, created
temperature scale where
0° = freezing, 100° = boiling
(1742)
Andreas Vesalius
Flanders
Physician, published findings on
human anatomy (1543)
Studied Cadavers
Edward Jenner
Britain
Introduced vaccine to
prevent smallpox (1796)
Robert Boyle
Britain
“Father of Modern
Chemistry”
Challenged Aristotle,
explained relationship
between volume, temperature
pressure (1661)