The Birth of Modern Science

People of the 1500s-1700s

witnessed great scientific and
intellectual advances.

NICOLAUS COPERNICUS
Polish astronomer who challenged the
view that the sun revolved around the
earth. He suggested that earth revolved
around the sun.

ANTOINE LAVOISIER
Frensh scientist who founded the
science of chemistry and explained
how animals and plants use
oxygem in respiration
SIR ISAAC NEWTON
English scientist who formulated the laws
of gravity and motion.

The scientific approach JOHN LOCKE

also to the birth of English Philosopher, built on principles of associationism, theorized
modern psychology in the that knowldge is not inborn but is learned from experienced.
1800s. JOHANNES KEPLER
Kepler was a brilliant mathematician who had a mystical vision of
Psychologists argued that the mathematical perfection of the universe that owed a great deal
ideas about human to the ancient Greek mathematician Phytagoras.
behavior and mental
processes should be
supported by evidence

Laboratories in Europe
and the US had
psychologists who studied
the behavior and mental
processes using methods
similar to those Lovoisier Most historians of
had used to study In that year,
chemistry psychology point
German
to the year 1879 as psychologist
the beginning of Wilhelm Wundt
psychology as a established his
modern laboratory laboratory in
science. Leipzig.
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MARIEL TRISIA CASTIN