Renaissance Science

  • Ptolemy
    100

    Ptolemy

    Earth center ancient Greece astronomer geosentric
  • Period: 100 to

    Scientific leaders

  • Copernicus
    Apr 15, 1473

    Copernicus

    Sun center heliocentric theory death bed
  • Brahe
    Apr 15, 1572

    Brahe

    Earth center build globe planets around sun
  • Telescope

    Telescope

    Hans Lippershey
  • Kepler

    Kepler

    Found orbit of mars elliptica telescope
  • Galileo

    Galileo

    Thermometer compass improved telescope heliocentric motion
  • Newton

    Newton

    laws of motion principle of gravity