| Description | Person |
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| Put forward the evolutionary theory of 'Punctuated Equilibrium' as a method of adaptation | |
| Originally posited that the sun was the center of the planetary system | |
| The Father of Microbiology and contender for the discovery of spermatozoids | |
| Author of the artificial system of classification in 1694 which used Aristotle's 'essence' concept to organize life forms (esp. plants) by one, predominant feature | |
| Destroyer of Plato's School in 529 AD | |
| Developed the definition of 'species': that each life form within a species is created with specific, original features, unique to their type regardless of subsequent adaptations | |
| Student of Aristotle and conqueror of Three Great Ancient Centers of Civilization (Greece, Egypt, Mesopotamia.) | |
| Creator of the Dichotomous Key. 'Greatest Naturalist of the 18th Century' who developed the theory that there is a limited number of original species who evolve toward 'perfection' | |
| Surgeon of Gladiators who linked Hippocratic concept of humors/bile to the Aristotelian Elements. Advocator of the philosophy that 'the wound is the window into the human body.' | |
| Used data adapted from dutch astronomer Tycho Brahe to calculate the elliptical orbit of earth where time and area are proportionate | |
| 'Discoverer' of the Homunculus | |
| Priest synthesized Biblical concepts and Aristotelian theory | |
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| Developer of the nomenclature and the Latin classification system (class, order, genus, species). Specialized in the sexual system of plants. Most famous work Systema Naturae | |
| Outlined mechanization of all corporeal matter (esp. biology), separating the body from the mind | |
| Adaptor of telescope in 1610, subsequently declared heretical | |
| Developer of physical mechanics and fluid dynamic resulting in the propagation of a system of the world which is entirely ordered (and therefore must have been Designed) | |
| Philosopher and Mathematician who believed the gaps in the Great Chain of Being could be prescribed to the fact that all life forms cannot necessarily co-exist | |
| Used Descartes central idea of the mechanization of the body to prove the existence of a Designer. Most famous for extended Watch metaphor. | |
| Creator of the Elemental Theory (Earth, Air, Fire, Water and Ether.) Believer in a Natural Order based on a scale of relative 'perfection' (God at the top.) Creator of Teleology | |
| 16th-17th century English Viscount advocate of Inductive Reasoning who developed the scientific motto 'fiat experimentum'. Advocate of a 'Reasonable Utopia.' | |
| Author of the Great Chain of Being in conjunction with Aristotle's ideas. Believer in the plenitude, continuity and linear hierarchy of all aspects of earth. | |
| 17th-18th Century French author and gourmand who put forward the 'Plurality of Worlds' theory. | |
| First Christian Roman Emperor | |
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