Scientific Revolution

By vivalakristina
  • Feb 19, 1473

    Nicolaus Copernicus is born

  • Jan 1, 1514

    Nicholas Copernicus' heliocentric theory fisrt appears

    It was seen in the Commentariolus
  • Jan 1, 1522

    Ferdinand Magellan travels around the world

    Ferdinand Magellan is the first one to travel all the way around the world.
  • Jan 1, 1530

    Girolamo Fracastoro describes Syphilis

    It was a new disease at the time.
  • Jan 1, 1532

    It was observed that Halley's Comet's tail points away from the sun

    Peter Apian, Fracastoro, and Regiomontanus. Recognized this.
  • Jan 1, 1543

    On the Fabric of the Human Body is published by Andreas Vesalius

    Thought to be the first great work of science and the foundation of Biology
  • Jan 1, 1543

    De Revolutionibus Orbium is published by Nicolas Copernicus

    Sets out the Heliocentric Theory

  • Analytical Trigonometry is invented by Francois Viete

    Helped with physics and astonomy

  • Galileo Galilei shows the properties of gravity

    Demonstrating the fall of different weights off of a building

  • Messenger of the Heavens is published by Galileo

    It showed his observations of the Moon's surface and Jupiter's Moons which made the church uneasy

  • Johannes Kepler shows the Third Law of Planetary Motion

    This was the last step leading to the rejection of the Aristotelian system.

  • Galileo is Forced to Recant his Theories

  • Geometry is published by Rene Descartes

  • Barometer invented by Evangelista Torricelli

  • Air Pump is invented by Otto von Guericke

  • Newton builds his first reflective telescope

  • Newton publishes Opticks

  • Edmond Halley discovered that Halley's Comet had an eliptical orbit

    It was then named after him

  • Newton Dies