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1200
Roger Bacon
An English philosopher and scientist. He was a Franciscan monk who studied at Oxford and Paris. He was viewed as the most prime scholar of his time. He was one of the earliest to favor a system of scientific experimentation. -
1200
Magnifying lens
Roger Bacon described the properties of a magnifying glass in 13th-century England. Eyeglasses were developed in 13th-century Italy. -
1440
The printing process
Johannes Gutenberg was a German craftsman and inventor. Gutenberg is best known for the Gutenberg press, an innovative printing press machine that used movable type. It remained the standard until the 20th century. Gutenberg made printing cheap. The printing press was invented in the Holy Roman Empire by the German Johannes Gutenberg around 1440, based on existing screw presses. -
1500
Nicolaus Copernicus
A polish scientist, he is seen today as the founder of modern astronomy. His theory, Heliocentric, proved that the earth is a planet that revolves around the sun. He was a symbol of new ideas and innovation about the Scientific Revolution -
1543
Andreas Vesalius
Was a anatomist, and an author of one of the most influential books on human anatomy, De humani coporis fabica. Vesalius was seen as one of the founders of modern human anatomy. -
Rene Decartes
René Descartes was a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. Dubbed the father of modern western philosophy, much of subsequent Western philosophy is a response to his writings, which are studied closely to this day. -
Cartesian Method
Cartesian doubt is a systematic process of being skeptical about the truth of one's beliefs, which has become a characteristic method in philosophy. -
Johannes Kepler
A brilliant mathematician that used models that can test Copernicus and his heliocentric theory. Though some of hi s ideas on which Copernicus based his theory on were wrong. He had also published his laws of planetary motion in 1609 -
Galileo's Findings
When he published his findings in 1632, he had caused an uproar from it. Many of the scholars who still believed in Ptomely's old geocentric theory refused to accept Galileo's findings. Church scholars had disprove his found research because Galileo's theory seemed to contradict the Bible. -
Barometer
Created by Evangelista Torricellian. A Torricellian barometer, is an inverted glass tube standing in a bath of mercury. Air pressure pushes down on the surface of the mercury, making some rise up the tube. The greater the air pressure, the higher the mercury rises. -
William Harvey
Discovered the full circulation of blood in the body and used arguments and experiments to support this idea. Also, later discovered about veins in the body -
Isaac Newton
English physicist and mathematician Sir Isaac Newton, most famous for his law of gravitation, was instrumental in the scientific revolution of the 17th century.
