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Scientific Revolution

  • Period: 1400 to

    Scientific Revolution

  • Nicolaus Copernicus
    Feb 19, 1473

    Nicolaus Copernicus

    He came up with the heliocentric theory (sun centered solar system)
  • Tycho Brahe
    Dec 14, 1546

    Tycho Brahe

    He was a supporter of the heliocentric theory
  • Francis Bacon
    Jan 22, 1561

    Francis Bacon

    Bacon served as attorney general and Lord Chancellor of England.
  • Galileo Galilei
    Feb 15, 1564

    Galileo Galilei

    He invented telescope to discover four of the moons circling Jupiter, to study Saturn, to observe the phases of Venus, and to study sunspots on the Sun.
  • Johannes Kepler
    Dec 27, 1571

    Johannes Kepler

    German astronomer who discovered three major laws of planetary motion.