Monica Scientific Revolution

Thoth or Moses

Feb 21, 1469

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Publication of the highly influential Corpus Hermeticum, a collection of writings (we now know) to have been written in the early Christian era but then thought to have been written with great authority by Hermes Trismegistus.

Nicolas Copernicus

Feb 19, 1473

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He created the Copernican System. It introduced three different celestical systems. The Diurnal rotation of the Earth on it's axis. His second system was the Earth and the planets revolve around the sun. His final system was a conical axial motion of Earth to explain the fixed orientation of earth in space.

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Feb 21, 1494

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Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494) attacks practical magic, especially, astrology, as it calls into questions traditional notions of human free will; this concern underscores longstanding issues associated with the Condemnations of 1270 and 1277 which seems to have undermined the authority of Aristotle.

Johannes Kepler

Dec 27, 1517

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Johannes Kelper was an excellent mathematician. He discovered the exsitstence of "powers" such as a magnetism and light which could be used to account for the physical force necessary to drive the celestial machine. He had the mechanical ideas of the Renaissance. He had created a model of a celestial machine

Girolamo Fracastoro

Feb 21, 1530

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Girolamo Fracastoro (1475-1553) provides one of the first descriptions of a new disease in a work entitled Syphilis, or the French Disease. As an aside, the Italians called it the French
disease, the French called it Italian disease. As in England, the French established a Collège Royal in Paris, its purpose was the advancement of learning which included lectures.

Erasmus Reinhold

Feb 21, 1551

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Deriving his results from Copernicus' data and planetary models, the German astronomer Erasmus Reinhold (1511-1553) publishes his Prutenic Tables, which for many astronomers replaced the outdated efforts associated with the Alphonsine Tables (1252). Reinhold's efforts were not seriously challenged until Kepler Rudolphine Tables, which were based on Tycho's data

Francis Bacon

Jan 22, 1561

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Francis Bacon created the Baconian Method. The method is a 'tool' of the intellect: it enables the mind to overcome its weaknesses, and can compensate for disparity of mental ability. The function of the method is to collect data from the natural world and refashion it.

Galileo Galilei

Feb 15, 1564

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Galileo was a great astronomer. He wrote for literature but not technical readers. Galileo creates the telescope. He discovered the topography of the moon was similar to, or more pronounced than, that of the earth; the earth-like moon moves around the earth.

René Descartes

Feb 20, 1596

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Rene Descartes was a mechanical philosoper. He found that matter is of three types, classified as to size: First matter, fine (chips); second matter, medium (spheres); and third matter, gross (chunks), that is, respectively, material light, aether, and ordinary, visible matter.

Isaac Newton

Dec 25, 1642

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He created the Newtonian Synthesis. He found that the world was no longer viewed as finite and hierarchically ordered: quantitative considerations replace qualitative ones. He also found that the celestial and terrestrial worlds are no longer philosophically and scientifically distinct; astronomy and physics have been geometrically unified.