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Jan 1, 1543
Copernicus publishes "On the Revolutions of Celestial Bodies"
This was the first book that set up the heliocentric theory. -
Galileo Demonstrates The Properties of Gravity
Demonstrates from the top of the leaning tower of Pisa by droping a one-pound weight and a one hundred-pound weight at the same time. -
Galileo publishes Messenger of the Heavens
A 24-paged booklet that describes Galileo's telescopic observations of the moon's surface and of Jupiter's moons. -
Francis Bacon publishes Novum Organim
Bacon's attempted to create an organization/cooperation with the Scientific communtiy by demonstrating how fields of science relate to each other -
Galileo publishes Dialogue on the Two Chief systems of the World
Galileo uses the laws of physics to refute the Aristotelian contention that the Earth is the center of the solar system and supports Copernicans theroy of the Heliocentric model, -
Galileo is forced to recant Theories
Inquisition forces Galileo to sign recantation and condemns him to be under house arrest for the last years of his life. -
Isaac Newton publishes Philosophia Naturalis Principia Mathmatica
Lays out Newton's comprehensive model of the universe as organized according to the law of universal gravitation that great astronomers base thier work on as of modern physics and astronomy. -
John Lockes Essay Concerning human Understanding
A friend of Newton agrues that knowledge of the nature is probable, not certain, and is rooted in sense experience, not innate ideas -
Isaac Newton publishes first edition of Opticks
Newtons book on his work based on his days at Cambridge, includig a series of speculations about nature and natural philosophy. -
Newton's Obervations Upon the Prophecies is Published
Published in London; some 11 printings follow after Newtons death March 18th, 1727
