Scientific Revolution

  • Jan 1, 1514

    January 1,1514

    The earth revolves around the sun. The theory developed by Nicolas Copernicus in 1514
  • Oct 31, 1517

    Martin Luther

    Protestant Martin Luther started to reform the church as it seemed to abuse its power and not follow the bible properly.
  • Jan 1, 1530

    Girolamo Fracastoro

    He found a provides a description of a new disease and called it syphilis
  • Francis Viete

    Francis Viete invents analytical trigonometry
  • Galileo Galilei

    In 1593 Galileo invented the thermometer showing the change of the weather
  • Galileo Galilei

    Galileo faces trail because he believed that the earth revolved around the sun and the catholic church did not like him
  • Otto Von Guericke

    Otto Von Guericke invents the air pump by using vacuum properties
  • The Royal Society of London

    The Royal Society of London is formed under King Charles ll to put together the greatest minds in the land to cooperate
  • The French Academy of Science

    The French Academy of Science is founded and it is the center of all science development
  • G-A Borelli

    Borelli argues that planets attract each other by their centers in Theories of Mediceans Planets
  • Rene Descartes

    Rene Descartes, The World, is publicized 14 years after his death
  • Isaac Newton

    Isaac Newton builds his first reflection telescope
  • Isaac Newton

    Releases a book talking about gravity and its properties
  • John Flamsteed

    John Flamsteed published a Historia Coelestis Britannica which talks about the positions of 3000 stars