renaissance scientists

  • Ptolemy
    100

    Ptolemy

    Astronomer, mathematician, thought world was geocentric.
  • Period: 100 to

    Renaissance Scientists

  • Copernicus
    Apr 8, 1473

    Copernicus

    books in Greece, astronomer, solar system
  • Brahe
    Apr 8, 1572

    Brahe

    Astronomer, discovered more than 700 stars
  • Kepler

    Kepler

    discovered Earth orbits sun. elliptical rotation
  • Galileo

    Galileo

    improved telescope put to death church
  • Newton

    Newton

    He created the Laws of Gravity.