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Period: Jan 1, 1463 to Jan 1, 1532
The Scientific Revolution
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Feb 19, 1473
Niel Copernicus
The day of his birth! -
Dec 9, 1486
The Malleus Malificarum( The hammer of the witches)
Published as an influential guidebook to identifying witches and bringing them to punishment. -
Feb 24, 1494
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
attacks practical magic, especially, astrology, as it calls into questions traditional notions of human free will; this concern underscores longstanding issues associated with the Condemnations of 1270 and 1277 which seems to have undermined the authority of Aristotle -
Jan 1, 1514
andreaus vesalius
was an author of one of the most influential books on human anatomy, -
Jan 1, 1514
Nicholas Copernicus
The initial appearance of the heliocentric theory of Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543) is associated with the private circulation of a manuscript known as the Commentariolus (The Little Commentary) which was published many years later. -
Giordano Bruno
1584: Giordano Bruno Publishes The Ash-Wednesday Supper, On Cause, Principle, and Unity, and On the Infinite Universe and Its Worlds The renegade Italian monk unfolds his philosophy, the centerpiece of which is the contention that the universe is infinitely large and that the Earth is by no means at the center of it. For the expression of his thoughts, Bruno is burned at the stake as a heretic. -
Francois Viete
1591: Francois Viete Invents Analytical Trigonometry Viete's invention is essential to the study of physics and astronomy. -
Galileo Galilei
1591: Galileo Galilei Demonstrates the Properties of Gravity Galileo demonstrates, from the top of the leaning tower of Pisa, that a one- pound weight and a one hundred-pound weight, dropped at the same moment, hit the ground at the same moment, refuting the contention of the Aristotelian system that the rate of fall of an object is dependent upon its weight. He expounds fully on this demonstration years later in his 1638 Discourse on Two New Sciences. -
Galileo Publishes Messenger of the Heavens
1610: Galileo Publishes Messenger of the Heavens Galileo's 24-page booklet describes his telescopic observations of the moon's surface, and of Jupiter's moons, making the Church uneasy. The Inquisition soon warns Galileo to desist from spreading his theories. -
John Napier
1614: John Napier Publishes Description of the Marvelous Canon of Logarithms Napier's invention and cataloguing of logarithms is an essential step in easing the task of numerical calculation.
