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Period: May 16, 1450 to
Scientific Revolution
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May 17, 1473
Nicolaus Copernicus
Copernicus was the first astronomer to create a heliocentric model of the universe, which meant that the Sun was at the center rather than the Earth. -
May 19, 1561
Francis Bacon
Bacon was an English philosopher, scientist, and author, who is responsible for establishing the Bacononian method, also known as the scientific method. -
May 19, 1578
William Harvey
Harvey studied the human body and made discoveries on the circulation of blood and the heart. He later wrote his findings in a book called "On the Motion of the Heart and Blood." -
Galileo Galilei
Galileo did not believe Aristotle's theory that heavier objects fall faster than lighter objects. While in the University of Pisa he performed an experiment dropping objects off the leaning Tower of Pisa, and disproved Aristotle's theory. -
Johannes Kepler
Kepler is responsible for discovering the three laws of planetary motion. These laws state that the Earth and planets travel about the sun in elliptical orbits. They also state that the line connecting the Sun to a planet sweeps equal areas in equal times and that the ratio of the squares of the periods of any two planets is equal to the ratio of the cubes of their average distances from the sun. -
Robert Boyle
Boyle was a natural philosopher, chemist, and physicist, who is best known for creating Boyle's law, which describes the relationship between the pressure and volume of a gas. According to this law, the pressure exerted by a gas held at a constant temperature varies inversely with the volume of the gas. -
Isaac Newton
He is responsible for Newton's three laws of motion. The first law states that an object in motion will stay in motion unless acted upon by an unbalanced force. The second law states that the acceleration of an object is dependent upon two variables; the net force acting upon the object and the mass of the object. Lastly the third law states that for every action there is an equal and opposite re-action.
