-
Perhaps one of the most famous inventions of the renissance was the printing press. The prinitng press was created by Johannes Gutenberg a German publisher who was one of the first to make a printing press with movable metal/wooden letters.
-
Georg von Peuerbach was an Austrian austronomer and mathematician who began teaching in 1448 in Vienna, Italy. He is known for making a great attempt to reconcile all of the opposing theories of the universe.
-
Mikotaj Kopernik (Nicolaus Copernicus) was a Polish astronomer who based his model of the idea that the sun is the center of the solar system and that the sun orbits the earth and the planets.
-
Gerardus Mercator, a German philosopher and cartographer was the first to use the term Atlas . He constucted a map of Western Europe. He aslo used longitude and latitude which represented sailing courses.
-
Johannes Kepler, a German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer, created a work called Mysterium Cosmographicum, or The Cosmographic Mystery, in his first work of writing about his astronomical studies. This demonstarted the first realization of Jupiter and Saturn's zodiac periodic conjunction.
-
Galileo Galleli also known as "the father of science", was an Italian astronomer who used the telescope to discover the phases of Venus and the four largest satelites of Jupiter. His most important invention was the telescope.
-
Rene Descartes was a French philosopher who was the first to determine that science and math can be used to find everything in nature. He was the first to say that the universe is composed of matter and motion. He also created anylitical geometry.
-
Edmond Halley was the first of all astronomers to actually find the locations of stars with a telescope and record them. The Star Catalogue contained telescopically determined locations of the southern stars.
-
Isaac Newton was an English mathematicion and physicist who made many improvements to classical mechanics. He created the law of universal gravitationand the laws of motion, based off of Aristotle's theories back in Ancient Greece.
