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Period: Feb 19, 1473 to May 24, 1543
Nicolas Copernicus
An astronomer who favored heliocentrism and who's ideas were not completely revolutionary but were built upon by many other people to become such. -
Nov 13, 1500
Copernicus- University of Padua
A strong university which Copernicus was associated with. (time estimated) -
Jan 1, 1543
Copernicus- Heavenly Orbs
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. -
Jan 1, 1543
Vesalius
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. -
Period: Dec 14, 1546 to
Tycho Brahe
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 -
Period: Jan 22, 1561 to
Francis Bacon
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. -
Period: Feb 15, 1564 to
Galileo Galilei
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. -
Nov 11, 1572
Brahe- Crab Nebula
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. -
Jan 1, 1577
Brahe- Comet
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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Rene Descartes
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. -
Galileo- Giordano Bruno burnt
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. -
Kepler- Laws of Planetary Motion
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). -
Bacon- Theory of induction
Learning is started at observation and then moves towards a hypothesis and theory and not the other way around. (estimated time) -
Galileo- Letter to grand duchess of tusdcany
Galileo wrote a letter to the Grand Duchess of Tuscany that explained the relationships between what he had learned and christianity. -
Bacon- Novum Organum (new tools)
A book that Bacon writes that explains his new philosophical way of thinking about science that replaced the syllogism of earlier times. -
William Harvey- On the Movement of the Heart and Blood
A book published with detailed explanations of the circulatory system and the movement of blood. -
Descartes- Theory of Deduction
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) -
Galileo- Dialoue on Two World Systems
A Book published by Galileo that contrasted the difference between the Copernican and Ptolemaic systems. -
Galileo- Banned by Church
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. -
Descartes- Discourse on Method
A treatise by Descartes that was meant to change the way scientists were thinking and also reduce skeptics. -
Galileo- Discourse on Two Sciences
Galileo's last book and a sort of testament to all of his previous work. -
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Isaac Newton
Pioneered physics and the laws of motion. A very influential physicist and overall thinker. -
Malpighi and Capillaries
Malpighi discovered cappilaries and improved upon the information on the circulatory system that Harvey had provided. -
Newton- Jean Picard and Mars
Picard studied mars and tried to use it to help calculate solar parallax. -
Newton- Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
A work published by Newton that explained his laws of motion. A Revolutionary piece. -
Newton- Laws of Motion
- 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
