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Feb 19, 1473
Copernicus
Born in Torun, Poland -
May 24, 1543
On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres
Copernicus's book published just before his death -
Dec 14, 1546
Tycho Brahe
Brahe born in Scania, Denmark -
Feb 15, 1564
Galileo Galilei
Galileo born in Italy. He would later revise Copernicus's work, making it more accessible to the public and confronting the Catholic Church. -
Dec 27, 1571
Johannes Kepler
Born in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, -
Discourse on Method
Descartes publishes this book, separating the mind as a thinking substance from matter -
Isaac Newton
Born in Lincolnshire, England -
Newton's Principia
Newton's book establishes his laws of motion and universal gravitation, first explaining why the planets orbit -
On the Origin of Species
Darwin's book was the next largest blow to the Church, and science attempted to take authority over the Bible in explaining the origin of humans ←from GreatScience -
Edwin Hubble
Hubble proves that our entire galaxy is only one of many others, further diminishing the significance of our place in the universe
