nally, by the beginning of the 17th Century, Galileo was exploring
             his theory of motion as well as finding evidence that Copernicus was
             correct in assessing that planets revolved around the sun and not Earth.[v]
             Meanwhile, Johannes Kepler engaged in the study of astronomy and
             developed the laws of planetary motion in 1609. . . Rene
             Descartes, Blaise Pascal, Pierre de Fermat and Isaac Newton
             developed the foundations for analytic geometry, probability,
             and integral calculus; while Robert Boyle discovered the laws of
             pressure. . . William Harvey studied the circulation of blood
             and the function of the heart. Physicians studied diabetes and
             scarlet fever, and developed a cure for scurvy. . . Italian
             physician Santorio Santorii measured human body temperature with
             his invention, the thermometer.[vi]
             This meant that humankind now had a better understanding of areas of
             science that had previously been considered mysteries left up to God.
             Humankind was no longer helpless in the face of the elements. This
             knowledge gave them the ability to now have some sort of self-
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