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Scientific Revolution

By bomull
  • Feb 28, 1543

    Copernicus

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

    Brahe

    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