Little Scale Timeline

By allyyygonzalez
  • 276 BCE

    Eratosthenes

    Eratosthenes
    He was known for measuring the size of the Earth.
  • 1473

    Nicolaus Copernicus

    Nicolaus Copernicus
    Came up with the Heliocentric Theory.
  • 1561

    Francis Bacon

    Francis Bacon
    Francis Bacon was a philosopher who contributed to the Scientific revolution.
  • 1564

    Galileo Galilei

    Galileo Galilei
    Innovated the telescope to gather evidence proving that the Sun is the middle of the Universe.
  • 1564

    Tycho Brahe

    Tycho Brahe
    He is best known for the astronomical observations and being an alchemist
  • 1571

    Johannes Kepler

    Johannes Kepler
    Kelper is an astronomer who is known for the three panetary laws of motion.

  • René Descartes

    René Descartes
    He was a mathematician and a scientist, he believed that everything should be doubted unless mathematically or scientifically proven.

  • John Locke

    John Locke
    He was known as a philosopher and was called "Father of Liberalism". He believed that we are born knowing nothing and all of our knowledge comes from our experiences and senses.

  • Isaac Newton

    Isaac Newton
    He came up with the laws of motion. (invented gravity)

  • Dmitri Mendeleev

    Dmitri Mendeleev
    He put together the periodic table.

  • Marie Curie

    Marie Curie
    Discovered the elements radium and polonium.

  • Henrietta Leavitt

    Henrietta Leavitt
    She discovered the brightness of variable stars and can tell the distance of them.

  • Alfred Wegner

    Alfred Wegner
    He made the theory of Pangea (all contents being together).

  • Edwin Hubble

    Edwin Hubble
    He discovered another galaxy and demonstrated the understanding of the universe, saying that it is still expanding.

  • Harry Hammond Hess

    Harry Hammond Hess
    He had discovered the hundreds of flat-topped mountains, believe to be sunken island the Pacific floor.