Apparently on the 17th century luminaries laid the foundation for modern empirical science, profess a method of discovery and a way of thinking.
The inventor of the telescope, Galileo Galilei, incurred the raft with a catholic church by affirming Copernicus theory that the earth moved around the sun.
Kepler's laws of planetary motion further confirmed the view.
Sir Isaac Newton born the same year Galileo died completed the revolution by explaining Universal gravitation and the laws of motion and mathematical terms. He is also credited with the discovery of calculus.
Other scientific giants of the 17th century included William Harvey who accurately described the human blood circulation.
Rene Descartes, the father of analytical geometry plays pascal who created the first calculting machine and Francis Bacon, a catalyst to modern inductive science. Yet the genius of the century went beyond science left to the ages as well are the writings of Shakespeare, Milton and Cervantes, the paintings of Rembrandt, the palace of Versailles and the Taj Mahal.
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