Chapter 22 By jenn_gomez 140 BCE Aristotle explained the geocentric theory 140 BCE Ptolemy supported the geocentric theory 1475 Nicolaus Copernicus reasoned the heliocentric theory 1543 Andreas Vesallius published on the fabric of the human body 1595 Zacharias Janssen invented the microscope 1602 Galileo developed the law of the pendulum 1609 Johannes Kepler published the first two laws of planetary motion 1620 Francis Bacon published Novum Organum 1628 William Harvey showed that the heart acted as a pump to circulate blood throughout the body 1632 John Locke explained this theory of "natural lights" 1633 Galileo was put under house arrest by an Inquisition for supporting Copernicus's theory 1637 Rene Descartes published Discourse on Method 1637 Leeuwenhoek saw red blood cells for the first time 1644 Torricelli developed the first mercury barometer 1651 Thomas Hobbes published Leviathan - social contract 1662 Robert Boyle created Boyle's Law 1687 Issac Newton published his law of gravity 1694 Francois-Marie Arouet changed his name to Voltaire and goes to champion individual freedoms 1694 Mary Astell wrote A Serious Proposal to the Ladies 1701 Anders Celsuis created a scale for mercury thermometer 1714 Gabriel Fahrenheit made the first thermometer to use mercury in glass 1739 Marie-Therese Geoffrin held her first salon of Philosophes 1740 The enlightened despot, Frederick II, began his rule prussia 1748 Montesquieu published On the Spirit of Laws 1750 The Baroque period began in art, music, and architecture 1750 The Classical period began in art, music and architecture 1759 Emilie du Chatalet translated Newton's work from Latin into French 1762 Jean Jacques Rousseau wrote the Social Contract 1762 The enlightened despot, Catherine the Great, began her rule of Russia 1764 Beccaria published on Crimes and Punishmebts 1765 The enlightened despot, Joseph II, began his rule of Austria 1771 Denis Diderot published the first volume if the Encuclopedia 1774 Joseph Priestly discovered oxygen 1776 Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence 1778 Antoine Lavoisier discovered and named gas oxygen 1787 The U.S enacted the Constitution 1789 The U.S Congress added the Bill of Rights 1792 Mary Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 1796 Edward Jenner introduced a vaccine to prevent small pox
