Renaissance Science

  • Ptolemy
    100

    Ptolemy

    Believed that the world was geocentric.
    100 C.E.- 170 C.E.
  • Period: 100 to

    Renaissance Science

  • Copernicus
    Apr 8, 1473

    Copernicus

    astronomer to prove world was heliocentric.
    born in 1473
  • Brahe
    Apr 8, 1546

    Brahe

    discovered supernova and improved the telescope,
    1546-1601
  • Galileo
    Apr 8, 1546

    Galileo

    improved the telescope, invented the thermometer.
    born in 1564
  • Kepler
    Apr 8, 1571

    Kepler

    Discovered the principles of planetary motion

    1571-1630
  • Newton

    Newton

    Made newton’s laws, the color spectrum

    Born in 1642