Scientific Revolution Timeline

  • Christopher Columbus
    Dec 31, 1451

    Christopher Columbus

    Christopher Columbus is born. He is a navigator, explorer, and colonizer.
  • Nicolaus Copernicus
    Feb 19, 1473

    Nicolaus Copernicus

    Nicolaus Copernicus is born. He is one of the first people to formulate a cosmology. He published a book right after the day he died and may have began the scientific revolution.
  • Malleus Maleficarum
    Jan 1, 1487

    Malleus Maleficarum

    Malleus Maleficarum is a book written by Heinrich Kramer, Its about treatise on witches and first pubished in 1487 at Germany.
  • Juan Luis Vives
    Mar 6, 1493

    Juan Luis Vives

    A Spanish Scholar and humanist that introduced alot about education and psychology.
  • Peter Apian
    Apr 16, 1495

    Peter Apian

    A humanist and a very smart person who effect alot of people to have and education in the scientific revolution era.
  • Georg Joachim Rheticus
    Feb 16, 1514

    Georg Joachim Rheticus

    He is a mathematician, cartogrpaher, and an instrument maker. He was Nicholas Copernius sole pupil.
  • Conrad Gessner
    Mar 26, 1516

    Conrad Gessner

    Conrad Gessner was a bibliographer. Without him there woudn't be a beggining of modern zoology. He is considered the flowering plany genus.
  • Ferdinand Magellan
    Jan 1, 1522

    Ferdinand Magellan

    He was the first to discover and complete the circumnavigation of the globe. Which means he crossed all of the meridians of the globe.
  • Simon Stevin
    Jan 1, 1548

    Simon Stevin

    Simon Stevin is a mathematician and also an engineer. With his knowledge there was weapons and automobiles for the scientific revolution era such as a land yacht.
  • Jost Bürgi

    Jost Bürgi

    Jost Bürgi was a mathematician. He was also a very good clockmacker. Being a mathematician was very helpful for when he made his clocks.