Scientific Revolution

By yoseline.guzman
  • Period: Jan 1, 1473 to

    Scientific Revolution

  • Feb 19, 1473

    Nicolaus Copernicus born (1473-1543)

    Nicolaus Copernicus born (1473-1543)
    Nicolaus Copernicus was born in the city of Thorn, that lied in the Royal Prussia in the kingdom of Poland.
  • Jan 1, 1514

    Publishing of Commentariolus

    Publishing of Commentariolus
    Commentarioulus was an outline of his works on the heliocentric theory of the universe. Copies of this outline began ciculating someitme in 1514. It was not published but rather handed out to ceratain people. It later would be published into the six volume 'On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres'
  • Jan 1, 1543

    Publishing of 'On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres'

    Publishing of 'On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres'
    The final product of On the Revoultions of the Heavenly Shperes was published in 1543 in Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. Along with De fabrica (On the Fabric of the Human Body) work by Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) it is said that the Scientific Revolution fully started.
  • Jan 1, 1573

    Tycho Brahe's De nova stella published

    Tycho Brahe's De nova stella published
    Tycho Brahe born in December 14, 1546, was a Danish atronomer and alchemist. With his work Stella Nova he opposed to Copernicus' model of the universe and believed that the universe was geocentric.

  • Johannes Kepler's Astronomia Nova published

    Johannes Kepler's Astronomia Nova published
    This book was famous for the opposing of heliocentric theories. Kepler used data by Brahe and studied all 3 systems of the universe proposed i.e Ptolemaic system, Copernican system. Tychonic system. The book also showed Mar's elliptical orbit and used this to partially explain planetary motions.

  • The Starry Messenger by Galileo Galilei published

    The Starry Messenger by Galileo Galilei published
    AKA Sidereus Nuncius is Galileo's finding of the universe by a telescope. The pamplet included his observation of the Moon, the moons of Jupiter and stars. Later on Galielo's full observations would be exposed on his full lenght book "Dialogues on the Two Chief Systems of the World"

  • Francis Bacon's Novum organum published

    Francis Bacon's Novum organum published
    Francis Bacon's (1561-1626) book presents a new system og logic that he believes to be better than syllogysm/logical appeal opposing to Aristotle's work.

  • Rene Descartes' essay Discourse on the Method & Gemoetry published

    Rene Descartes' essay Discourse on the Method & Gemoetry published
    Descarte's autobiograhpical and philosophical formal exposition is famous for it's "I think, therefore I am" quote that examplifies the effort of the essay to attack skepticism. Other works by Descartes such as Meditations of First Philosophy are groudworks for epistemology.

  • Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

    Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
    The series of 3 books is what is now the classical mechanics or Newton's law of universal gravitation.