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Feb 4, 1543
Andreas Vesalius
Wrote "On the Human Body" which accurately described the individual organs and general structure of the human body. Forever changing the ability of people to understand the hman body. -
May 31, 1543
Nicolaus Copernicus
" Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres" is published discussing his idea that the universe was "heliocentric" or sun centered. rather than geocentric, or Earth centered. His discovery helped people to better understand the universe they live in. -
Galileo Galilei
His achievements include improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations and support for Copernicanism. Galileo has been called the "father of modern observational astronomy". His major discoveries include the four moons of Jupiter, named the Galilean Moons in his name. Galileo made it easier for scientists to observe the sky. -
Johannes Kepler
Wrote Epitome of Copernican Astronomy. He works also provided one of the foundations for Isaac Newton's theory of universal gravitation. His model of the universe elaborated on Copernicus' to include elliptical orbits of the planets -
Francis Bacon
Bacon pro that all scientific work should be done for charitable purposes, as matter of making man's like easier. This changed the course of science in history, from a merely contemplative state, to a practical, inventive state this would have eventually lead to the inventions that made possible the Industrial Revolution. -
William Harvey
published " On the Motion of the Heart and Blood" which showed that the heart was the center of blood circulation and that the same blood was used throughout the body. Improving people's understanding of their bodies. -
Rene Descartes
Descartes publishes " Discourse on Method" in which he concludes that " I think, therefore I am" proving his existance simply because he doubts that he exists at all. Descartes all provied Cartesian geometry which uses algebra to describe geometry. -
Margaret Cavendish
Great philosopher with the beie that we are the masters of our fate. Many people to this day also believe that we control our own distiny. -
Robert Boyle
Published Boyle's Law stating that the volume of a gas depended of the pressure exerted when the tempurature remains the same. This made it easier for chemists to develope equations describing a gas at a set tempurature -
Isaac Newton
Newton publishes his Three Laws of Motion, which, when combined with his universal law of gravitation, which states every object is attrated to another through gravity, explains Kepler's elliptical orbit theory. -
Maria Winklemann
As her husband sleeps, Maria discovers a comet crossing the night sky, earlier her husband had dismissed it as a twinkling star. She and her husband also published numerous almanacs and calenders including the phases of the moon. -
Antoine Lavoisier
Known as the 'founder of Modern Chemistry" Lavoisier was instrumental in developing the chemicl nomenclaure of today.
