Chapter 22 William Jessie By WillJessie 1543 Aristotle explained the geocentric theroy 1543 Ptolemy supported the geocentric theory 1543 Nicolaus Copernicus reasoned the heliocentric theory 1543 Andreas Vesalius published on the fabric of the human body 1590 zacharias janssen invented the microscope 1600 The Baroque Period began in art, music, and architecture 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 which encouraged the experimental method 1628 William Harvey showed that the heart acted as a pump to circulate blood throughout the body 1633 Galileo was put under house arrest by an Inquisition for supporting Copernicus's theory 1637 Rene Descartes published Discourse on method which set forth his reasoning 1644 Evangelista Torricelli developed the first mercury barometer 1651 Thomas Hobbes published Leviathan 1662 Robert Boyle created Boyle's Law 1674 Anton van Leeuwenhoek saw red blood cells for the first time 1687 Isaac Newton published his law of gravity 1694 Mary Astell wrote A Serious Proposal to the Ladies 1713 Marie - Thérèse Geoffrin held her first salon of philosophes 1714 Gabriel Fahrenheit make the first thermometer to use mercury in glass 1730 The Classical period began in art, music, and architecture 1740 The enlightened despot, Fredric ii, began his rule of Prussia 1742 Anders Celsius create a scale for the mercury thermometer 1744 Joseph Priestly discovered oxygen 1748 Montesquieu published On the Spirit of Laws 1751 Denis Diderot published the first volume of the Encyclopedia 1762 Jean Jacques Rousseau wrote the social contract 1762 The enlightened despot, Catherine the Great, began her rule of Russia 1764 Cesare Beccaria published On Crimes and punishments 1768 Antoine Lavoisier discovered and named gas oxygen 1776 Thomas Jefferson wrote the declaration of Independence 1780 The enlightened despot, Joseph ii, began his rule of Austria 1787 the U.S. enacted the Constitution 1789 the U.S. Congress added the Bill of Rights 1792 Mary Wollstonecraft wrote A Vondication of the Rights of Woman 1792 Emilie du Chatalet translated Newton's work from Latin into French 1796 Edward Jenner introduced a vaccine to prevent small pox
