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An astronomer who favored heliocentrism and who's ideas were not completely revolutionary but were built upon by many other people to become such.
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A strong university which Copernicus was associated with. (time estimated)
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Copernicus writes and publishes his work "On the Revolution of the Heavenly Orbs", or De Revoltionbus Orbium Caelestium. It was a compilation of his thought and work on astronomy.
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A Surgeon. Here he conducted a public dissection of a man which would never have happened at the time and had great taboo associated with it.
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A Danish astronomer who's ideas began to take steps away from geocentrism and towadrs heliocentrism. He had a lunar theory and was worked for by Kepler
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An english statesman, scientist, and philosopher. He was a believer in the scientific method and thought that knowledge should be gained through testing and experiments.
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Italian astronomer and mathemetician among other things who based his ideas on what he saw in a telescope. His works were considered to be against the church and were outlawed and he was put in house arrest.
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On this day Brahe was walking home and he spotted a nebula, and was so intrigued that he stayed with astronomy for the rest of his professional life.
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In 1577 Brahe saw a comet and calculated its paralax to determine that it is farther away from the moon and that aristotle had been wrong that they were atmospheric
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One of the first people to cnnect the natural world to physics and to quantize nature. He also was based more off of reason than testing.
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Bruno took the copernican theory further and said that the sun was a star and that we are surrounded by infinite galaxies with other intelligent creatures. He was burned for it.
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Laws of PlanetartyMotion are published by Kelper to describe how the planets orbit the sun. Example: "an equal area of the plane in equal time by planet revolving around the sun, (or the period of revolution around ths Sun is proportional to distance from the sun).
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Learning is started at observation and then moves towards a hypothesis and theory and not the other way around. (estimated time)
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Galileo wrote a letter to the Grand Duchess of Tuscany that explained the relationships between what he had learned and christianity.
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A book that Bacon writes that explains his new philosophical way of thinking about science that replaced the syllogism of earlier times.
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A book published with detailed explanations of the circulatory system and the movement of blood.
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Deduction starts as a hypothesis and then observes and deduces a conflusion from what is seen and proves or disproves the validity of the hypothesis. (time estimated)
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A Book published by Galileo that contrasted the difference between the Copernican and Ptolemaic systems.
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Galileo was banned from the Church because his ideas were moving too fast for the time and people could not handle them and the church called him a heretic.
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A treatise by Descartes that was meant to change the way scientists were thinking and also reduce skeptics.
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Galileo's last book and a sort of testament to all of his previous work.
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Pioneered physics and the laws of motion. A very influential physicist and overall thinker.
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Malpighi discovered cappilaries and improved upon the information on the circulatory system that Harvey had provided.
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Picard studied mars and tried to use it to help calculate solar parallax.
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A work published by Newton that explained his laws of motion. A Revolutionary piece.
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- A Body Moves in a Straight Line Unless impeded
- Every action has equal and opposite reaction
- Every body attracts every other body with a force proportional to the distance between
