Scientific Revolution

By Aiden123
  • Period: 1492 to 1496

    Copernicus

    At the age of nine-teen, Copernicus and his brother was sent to the University of Krakow where he studied from 1492 to 1496.
    He was a Renaissance man and became a mathematician, and astronomer, a church jurist with a doctorate in law, a physician, a translator, an artist, a Catholic cleric, a governor, a diplomat, and an economist. He could speak German, Polish, and Latin, also, he understood Greek and Italian.
  • Period: 1501 to 1501

    Padua

    He questioned what he was taught while he was at the university. For example, he was taught Aristotle and ptolemy view of the universe. While at the University of Padua he was developing an idea that went against the common idea of the Earth being at the center of the universe and not moving. This is where Copernicus decided that the common theory was wrong about the universe and he started working on his theory, the "Heliocentric View."
  • Period: 1514 to 1514

    Little Comentary

    by 1514 he created a report that further explained what he was working on, the heliocentric view of the universe. The “Little Commentary” stated that earth rotated on its axis and revolves around the sun.
  • Period: 1515 to 1532

    Heliocentric View in steps

    By 1532 he had mostly completed the astronomical manuscript for the Heliocentric view of the Earth's rotation and the universe. He was very hesitant to publish this work, but with support of a mathematician friend who worked at the University of Wittenberg he finally published it. In the manuscript he begn by explaining the shape of the universe and then gave an order of the planets
    in the universe starting with Saturn and ending with Mercury with the Sun in the very middle.
  • Period: 1532 to 1532

    Heliocentric View in steps

    -Copericus’s theory in steps
    1.)The center of Earth is not the Universe, only Earth’s gravity
    2.)The Sun is a fixed object in the universe and all the planets revolve aroud it.
    3.)Earth has more than one motion… it revolves around the Sun and turns on it’s axis.
    4.) the stars in the universe don’t actually move and only appear to move, because of earths movement.
  • Period: 1543 to 1543

    Success before death

    Upon Copernicus laying in his death bed awaking from a coma had a first view of his success. He was able to see his first printed book about his Heliocentric view.