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5. Among the physicist of renaissance were Leonardo da Vinci and Galileo. Leonardo da Vinci worked out the principles of an astonishing variety of inventions including a diving board, a steam engine, an armored tank, and a helicopter. Galileo developed the law that guide the gravitational fall which was later improved on by Newton some fifty years later.
6. Paracelsus (1493-1541) insisted on the close relationship of chemistry and medicine foreshadowed and directly influenced important modern achievements in pharmacology and healing.
7. Michael Servetus (1511-1553) discovered the pulmonary circulation of the blood. He described how the blood leaves the right chambers of the heart, is carried to the lungs to be purified then returns to the heart.
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Cassirer, E., et al. eds., The Renaissance Philosophy of Man, Chicago, 1948.
Kohl, B.G. and R.. G. Witt, eds., The Earthly Republic: Italian Humanists on Government and Society, Philadelphia, 1978.
Philip. L. Ralph, et al.(1997) World civilizations: Their History and Their Culture. http:// web.wwnorton.com.
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