Scientific Revolution Timeline

  • Dec 31, 1451

    Christopher Columbus

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

    Nicolaus Copernicus

    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.
  • Jan 1, 1487

    Malleus Maleficarum

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

    Juan Luis Vives

    Juan Luis Vives
    A Spanish Scholar and humanist that introduced alot about education and psychology.
  • Apr 16, 1495

    Peter Apian

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

    Georg Joachim Rheticus

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

    Conrad Gessner

    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.
  • Jan 1, 1522

    Ferdinand Magellan

    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.
  • Jan 1, 1548

    Simon Stevin

    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.