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Period: Oct 31, 1451 to
Dates and Important Events
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Nov 18, 1576
Brahe's Observatory is Built
In his observatory, Tycho Brahe made observations and collected astronomical data aided. This lasted at least twenty years he and his 48 assitants. -
Galileo Galilei Demonstrates the Properties of Gravity
From the top of the leaning tower of Pisa, he made a demonstartion with a one-pound weight and a one hundred pound weight. He dropped them at the same time and they landed at the same time. This proved that the theory that an object's fall depended on it weight, was wrong. -
Johannes Kelper
Johannes Kepler's Astronmia Nova showed that Mars doesn't moves non-uniformly in an elliptical path and proposes a quasi-magnetic power or virtue emanating from the sun as partial explanation for the planetary motions. -
Copernicus' book is banned until corrected
The Roman church had banned his book for religious reasons. They believed that the Earth was atthe center of the universe becaus ethey believed God created it that way. However Copernicus believed the Sun was at the center. -
Sir Isaac Newton
Newton establishes the laws of motion, law of universal gravitaion, and basis for classical physics. -
Halley's Comet
Edmond Halley determined that his comet would have an elongated elliptical orbit. He therefore argued it should be sumnbitted to Newtonian principles. -
Newton Dies
Sir Isaac Newton's health takes a turn for the worst. He collapses and borders on death. He shortly dies a Kensingtominister between 1:00 and 2:00a.m. He was burried in Westminister Abbey where he is burried April 4th and had a death mask made of him. -
Dmitri Mendeleev
Medeleev creates the Periodic Table -
James Clerk Maxwell
Maxwell peroform's important research on color vision, molecular theory, and electromagnetic theory. The ideas underlying Maxwell's theories of electromagnetism describes the propagation of light waves in a vacuum. -
Dicovery of Xrays
Wilhelm Röntgen discovered xrays.
