Renaissance Scientists

  • Ptolemy
    100

    Ptolemy

    Geocentric theory; longitude and latitude; no Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, or Kuiper Belt.
  • Period: 100 to

    Scientific Leaders

  • Copernicus
    Apr 24, 1473

    Copernicus

    Came up with heliocentric system, only 6 planets, didn’t
    include other moons of other planets, mathematician, scholar, translator, artist.
  • Brahe
    Apr 24, 1546

    Brahe

    Made solar system instruments, observations of super nova, both
    sun and earth stationary (center of solar system), no telescope.
  • Galileo
    Apr 24, 1546

    Galileo

    Made telescope famous, believed heliocentric theory, and discovered sun spots, the Sun was in the center, that Jupiter has four moons, and that Venus has phases like the moon.
  • Kepler
    Apr 24, 1571

    Kepler

    Laws of planetary motion and elliptical orbit, mathematician, and astronomer.
  • Telescope

    Telescope

    Hans Lippershey had invented the first telescope. He was a Dutch eyeglass maker.
  • Newton

    Newton

    Invented calculus, 3 laws of motion. Believed heliocentric theory, discovered laws of gravity,