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May 16, 1473
Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus was a Renaissance astronomer. One key thing he did was make a book called De revolutionibus orbium coelestium. This book was about the modern day astronomy. He accomplished many tnings such as making a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology. This displaced the Earth from the center of the universe. -
May 16, 1514
Andreas Vesalius
Andreas Vesalius was an Flemish anatomist. A key accomplishment was one of the best books made called the On the Structure of the Human Body. And a key accomlishment was him being called the or decalred the human antamoy. -
May 16, 1546
Tycho Brahe
Tycho was a Danish nobleman. Some key htings in his life time was the astronomical and planetary observations that he was able to make. Some great accomplishments that he made were the observations made with his naked eye as a astronomers. With a naked eye he worked without telescopes for his observations. And made many observations about the stars. -
May 16, 1561
Francis Bacon
Francis was a English philosopher. Some key things in his life time was him becoming the Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. However a accomplishment made was his methodologies he made for scientific inquiry. -
Feb 15, 1564
Galileo Galilei
Galileo was a italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution. He was born in 1564 and died in 1642. Some key works he discovered was the observation of the 4 largest satelites. He mad shoking observations and and discovered the Telescope, which was another key work he accomplished. -
May 15, 1571
Johannes Kepler
He was a German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer. Some key works he accomplished was in the 17th century the eponymous laws of planetary motion. He also was a teacher in his life and improved the telescope. -
May 16, 1578
William Harvey
William was a English physician. Some key things about him is the hospital named after him after his death. Also a accpomplishment was him being ablle to describe the systemic circulation. And saw the properties of blood. -
Rene Descartes
Rene was a French philosopher. Some key things in his life were his writings. However a accomplishment was his carrtesian coordinate system. This allowed algebraic equations that would be expressed as geometric shapes in a two-dimensional coordinate system. -
Robert Boyle
Robert was a natural philosopher. A key thing in his life was the writings that he was able to make about theology. However a accomplishment that he made in his life was being the founder of modern chemistry and the scientific method. -
Isaac Newton
He was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian. Many key works were the monograph Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica. Some things he challenged were the motions of objects on Earth and of celestial bodies are governed by the same set of natural laws,
