The Scientific Revolution

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  • Jan 1, 1200

    Arabic Numerals Developed

  • Jan 1, 1276

    Paper-mill

    The first European paper mill operated in Italy on 1276.
  • Apr 15, 1452

    Leonardo da Vinci

  • Jan 1, 1453

    Ottoman conquest of Constantinople

  • Feb 19, 1473

    Nicolas Copernicus

    The first European paper mill operated in Italy on 1276
  • Jan 1, 1500

    italians knew greek.

    Many Italian humanists knew greek
  • Jan 10, 1517

    Matrin Luther triggered the protestant reformation

    1 Jan 1517, Martin Luther triggered the protestant reformation
  • Jan 10, 1560

    higher learning institutions

    three times as many institutions of higher learning were founded between 1560 and 1650 as in all previous centuries
  • Jan 22, 1561

    Francis Bacon

    Father of the Empiricism
  • Feb 15, 1564

    Galileo Galilei

    A proffessor of astronomy at University of Pisa.Was the first to use a refracting telescope to make important astronomical discoveries.He discovered moons of the planet Jupiter and the phases of the planet Venus.

  • Rene Descartes dies

  • The Royal Society For the Improvement Of Natural Knowledge by Experiment was founded in London

    The Royal Society For the Improvement Of Natural Knowledge by Experiment was founded in London

  • THe first daily newspaperwas publishedin London

  • The Impact of Science on World History

    By 1750 "philosophical societies" dedicated to research, experiment, and publication of results, were a regular feature of even provincial towns in England, France, Italy, Germany, and Holland.

  • John Harrison a Englishman craftsman, produced H-4, a watch for keeping precise time at sea and therefore for measuring longitude

  • 37 English Towns had daily newspapers

  • Aristotelian System

    Aristotle believed that form caused matter to move and defined motion by which the thing itself became motion itself.