Scientific Revolution

Roger Bacon

Jan 1, 1214

Roger bacon is an English Philosopher. He taught/lectured at the Univesity of Paris. He is known for the importance of having scientific expiements which now called the Scientific Method. He also is known for the opus majus, opus minus, and opus tetium. More information1214-1294

Nicolaus Copernicus

Feb 19, 1473

Nicolaus Copernicus was a polish astronomer. He developed the Copernican system which shows how the Earth and the other planets orbit around the sun in the solar system. More Information1473-1543

Andreas Vesalius

Dec 31, 1514

1514-1564
Andreas Vesalius was a flemish anatomist. Andreas had started dissecting corpes to show his students. He stated making diagrams/charts for his students for them to be able to see the details of the human body. The diagrams/charts of the human body is what he is famous for.
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Francis Bacon

Jan 22, 1561

1561-1626
Francis Bacon was an English philosopher, Scientist, and Statesman. He had contributions to the scientific method. He also established a scientific worldview. Bacon said benevolence of scientific understanding could give man power over nature. The famous words of Bacon are "Knowledge is Power." More Information

Galileo Galilei

Feb 15, 1564

1564-1642
Galileo Galilei was an Italian mathematician, astronomer, and physicist. He created the law of the pendulum which is where no matter the height that is relased it will go about the same height back. Clocks are made from this idea. He also discovered no matter the weight of an object it will land on the ground at the same time as another object.
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Johannes Kepler (German)

Jan 1, 1571

1571-1630
Kepler- important part of astronomy. He was the founder of the celestial mechanics which explains the planetary motions. Created three laws. 1st: orbit of a planet about the Sun is an ellipse with the Sun's center of mass at one focus. 2nd: A line joining a planet and the Sun sweeps out equal areas in equal intervals of time. 3rd: The squares of the periods of the planets are proportional to the cubes of their semi-major axes.
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William Havey

Apr 1, 1578

1578-1657
William Harvey was an English physician. He was interested in how the blood flow was going though the bodies. Harvey was the first person to tell how blood was pumped through the body from our heart. He also figured out that humans and other mammals reproduce with an egg.
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Rene' Descartes

Mar 31, 1596

1596-1650
Rene' Descartes was a French mathematician and philosopher. He is known for his imortanting writtings in philosophical writtings that science/math can be used to explain everything in nature. He is known for geometry which was a combination of algebra/geometry better known as cartesian. The cartesian coordinate system is where numbers are spaced out evenlly to make geometric shapes. More Information

Robert Boyle

Jan 25, 1627

1627-1691
Robert Boyle was a great Irish chemist. He wrote the Sceptical chymist and it talks about elements and how they are not just simple substances but are necessary ingrediants. He is also known for making an new vacuum pump. He also has a law named after him called Boyles Law which is the relationship between the pressure and volume of a gas. More Information

Issac Newton

Dec 25, 1642

1642-1727 Issac Newton was an English mathematician and physicist. He made the law of gravitation and the laws of motion. Three Laws of Motion are an object at rest tends to stay at rest, and an object in motion tends to stayin motion, unless an external force is applied to it. 2. A force causes acceleration of an object. 3.For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
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