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Scientific Revolution

By bomull
  • Copernicus
    Feb 28, 1543

    Copernicus

    Publishes "On the Revolutions of Celestial Bodies", forming the heliocentric solar system theory
  • Brahe
    Feb 28, 1573

    Brahe

    Published "On the New Star", which refuted the idea of an unchanging universe
  • Galileo

    Galileo

    Galileo proposes the heliocentric univese theory. He also made a telescope that could magnify 30X
  • Kepler

    Kepler

    Reveals his third and final law of planetary motion, leads to rejection of the Aristotelian system
  • Harvey

    Harvey

    Published On the Motion of the Heart and Blood, which defined many of the properties of systemic circulation
  • Descartes

    Descartes

    Published Meditations on First Philosophy, now a standard text at many universities. Also quoted as saying "I think, therefore I am"
  • Newton

    Newton

    Published Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, which defined most of the modern laws of motion