Scientific Revolution

Nicolaus Copernicus

Feb 19, 1473

Nicolaus Copernicus was born on February 19,1473. He was a Reniassance astronomer, phisicist, and mathematician. He was the first to creat a heliocentric model of the universe (with the Sun at the center rather than the Earth, geocentric, which was the excepted theory before then). He wrote his discoveries of the heliocentric model in the book commonly called Commentariolus today.

Scientific Revolution

Period: Jan 1, 1500 to Jan 1, 1800

Ambroise Pare

Jan 1, 1510

Ambroise Pare was born in 1510. He was a French surgeon and anatomist. He created new battlefield medicines, surgical techniques, and surgical instruments.

Andreas Vesalius

Dec 31, 1514

Andreas Vesalius was born on December 31, 1514. He was a Flemish anatomist. He is known for writing De humani corporis fabrica on human anatomy.

Tycho Brahe

Dec 14, 1546

Tycho Brahe was born on December 14, 1546. He was a Danish nobleman who studied astronomy and alchemy. He disagreed with the Aristotelian beleif that space was unchanging. He made accurate observations about the positions of the stars and tracked their movement (without even the development of a telescope). His discoveries later helped Kepler formulate the laws of planetary motion.

Francis Bacon

Jan 22, 1561

Francis Bacon was born on January 22, 1561. He was an English philosopher, scientist, and author. He is known for the Bacon method, otherwise known as the scientific method.

Galileo Galilei

Feb 15, 1564

Galileo Galilei was an Italian scientist, born on Feburary 15,1564. He defended his views on Copernicanism (the hypothesis that the earth orbits around the sun), and was convicted of heresy. Some of his accomplishments included constructing a hydrostatic balance that could be used to weigh small objects, shared his views on the Copernican theory, successfully built a telescope, made discoveries about the moon, stars, sunspots, and planets (such as Jupiter). He died on January 8, 1642.

Johann Kepler

Dec 27, 1571

Johannes Kepler was born on December 27, 1571. He was a German mathematician and astronomer who is known for creating three scientific laws about how the planets moved (relative to the sun). (He challenged some of the earlier theories of planetary motion.) He explained his discoveries in his work, Mysterium Cosmographicum.

William Harvey

Apr 1, 1578

William Harvey was born on April 1, 1578. He was a doctor, phisicologist, and journalist. He studied the human body and made discoveries on the circulation of blood and the heart. He wrote "Anatomical Exercise on the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals" containing his findings.

Rene Descartes

Mar 31, 1596

Rene Descartes was born on March 31, 1596. He was a French mathematician and scientist, and he is often known as the first modern philosopher. He believed that science and math could explain everything in nature. He wrote "The Discourse on Method," describing his discoveries and ideas on modern mathematics and physics.

Robert Boyle

Jan 25, 1627

Robert Boyle was born on January 25, 1627. He was a natural philosopher, chemist, and physicist. He is best known for creating Boyle's law, which describes the relationship between the pressure and volume of a gas. He is also known as the creator of modern science.

Isaac Newton

Dec 25, 1642

Issac Newton was born on December 25, 1642. He was a physicist and mathematician who studied motion. He created the principles of motion that we still use in modern science today. He also studied the planets and their gravitiational connection.