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Peter Apian observes that the tail of the comet his year, later known as Halley's Comet, pointed away from the sun, a detail also recognized by Regiomontanus.
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Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance mathematician and astronomer. He formulated a model of the universe, which placed the Sun, rather than the Earth, at the center.
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Girolamo Fracastoro provides one of the first descriptions of a new disease in a work entitled Syphilis, or the French Disease. As an aside, the Italians called it the French disease, the French called it Italian disease.
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Juan Luis Vives in his On the Disciplines argues for the reform of education and a more receptive approach to skills traditionally associated with the craft and trade traditions.
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Giordano Bruno an early Copernican, albeit philosophical and religious rather than technical, Bruno also argued form an infinite universe and a plurality of worlds. He was burned at the stake in Rome for his heretical opinions.
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Galileo Galilei, was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher. He played a major role in the Scientific Revolution
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Johannes Kepler was a German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer. A key figure in the 17th century scientific revolution, he is best known for his eponymous laws of planetary motion.
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René Descartes was a French philosopher, mathematician, and writer. He spent most of his adult life in the Dutch Republic.
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Tycho Brahe, having been ousted from Uraniborg by the King of Denmark, moves to Benateky, outside Prague, under the patronage of Rudolph II, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
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Sir Isaac Newton PRS MP was an English physicist and mathematician. he is widely regarded as one of the most influential scientists of all time and as a key figure in the scientific revolution.