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Nov 6, 1572
Tycho's Star
Tycho's Star was also known as "Star of 1572." This star was noticed by the Wolfgang Schuler. People in Europe saw the star. When Tycho first saw it he said it was bright like Jupiter and then grew like Venus. It ended up fading away 2 years later in March 1574. -
Galileo Galilei Demonstrates the Properties of Gravity
Galileo showed that a one pound weight and a one hundred pound weight droped at the same time, will hit the ground at the same time. -
Galileo Publishes Messenger of the Heavens
Galileo puts together a 24 page booklet describing his telescope observations of the moons surface, and jupiters moons. -
Galileo is Forced to Recant his Theories
the inquistion forces Galileo to house arrest for the rest of the 9 years of his life. His dialouge was burned as herectical. -
Evangelista Torricelli Invents the Barometer
Torricelli invention measures air pressure and showing the air has weight. Also that the pressure caused by the weight is different in different situations. -
Otto von Guericke Invents the Air Pump
Von Guericke shows the properties of a vacum with his air pump to take air within his famous " Magderberg hemispheres". -
The Royal Society of London is Officially Organized by King Charles II
The royal society brings together the best minds to advance the science through cooperation. Many societies rose up through europe creating a network which produce alot of the scientific advanaces in the 17 century. -
Isaac Newton Publishes Philosophia Naturalis Principia Mathematica
They say perhaps the most important event in the history of science. It shows Newtons model of the Unirverse organized according to the law of gravitation. -
Opticks
Isaac Newton wrote this book and it wasn't written in Latin it was in English. It was different because it wasn't in Geometric form. It was first reported in 1672, and he had all of his experiments in there. With these experiments he really didn't master them and still had them in there. -
Newton Dies
Issac Newton collaspe and people think that it was due to a kidney stone he had. In January 1725 they had to take him to Kensington becuase he had problems with his lungs and had a bad cough, Later on he had gout and it made him get better. March 4 was when they found out that he had a Kidney stone. He started getting delirious on March 18, then two days later he died between 1 to 2 o'clock in the morning.
