Important People of the Scientific Revolution

  • Period: 1400 to

    Important people of the Scientific Revolution

  • Nicolaus Copernicus
    Feb 19, 1473

    Nicolaus Copernicus

    Discovered the heliocentric theory
  • Tycho Brahe
    Dec 14, 1546

    Tycho Brahe

    Made the most accurate celestial observations of his time and challenged the belief of how the universe was organized
  • Galileo Galilei
    Feb 15, 1564

    Galileo Galilei

    Reinvented the telescope and supported the heliocentric theory(where the sun is in the center of the universe)
  • Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

    Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

    Reinvented microscopes and discovered microorganisms(cells, protists, etc.)
  • Isaac Newton

    Isaac Newton

    Discovered the 3 laws of motion