scientific revolution discoveries

First printed edition of Euclid's Elements in 1482

1500 BCE

Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) published On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres in 1543, which advanced the heliocentric theory of cosmology.

Feb 28, 1500

First printed edition of Euclid's Elements in 1482

Feb 28, 1500

andreas vesalius

Feb 28, 1500

Franciscus Vieta (1540–1603) published In Artem Analycitem Isagoge (1591), which gave the first symbolic notation of parameters in literal algebra.

Feb 28, 1500

William Gilbert (1544–1603) published On the Magnet and Magnetic Bodies, and on the Great Magnet the Earth in 1600, which laid the foundations of a theory of magnetism and electricity

Feb 28, 1500

Tycho Brahe (1546–1601) made extensive and more accurate naked eye observations of the planets in the late 16th century. These became the basic data for Kepler's studies

Feb 28, 1500

Sir Francis Bacon (1561–1626) published Novum Organum in 1620, which outlined a new system of logic based on the process of reduction, which he offered as an improvement over Aristotle's

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galileo galilei

Feb 28, 1500

Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) improved the telescope, with which he made several important astronomical observations, including the four largest moons of Jupiter, the phases of Venus, and the rings of Saturn, and made detailed observations of sunspots. He developed the laws for falling bodies based on pioneering quantitative experiments which he analyzed mathematically

Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) published the first two of his three laws of planetary motion in 1609

Feb 28, 1500

William Harvey (1578–1657) demonstrated that blood circulates, using dissections and other experimental techniques.

Feb 28, 1500

René Descartes (1596–1650) published his Discourse on the Method in 1637, which helped to establish the scientific method

Feb 28, 1500

issac newton

Feb 28, 1500

Isaac Newton (1643–1727) built upon the work of Kepler and Galileo. He showed that an inverse square law for gravity explained the elliptical orbits of the planets, and advanced the law of universal gravitation. His development of infinitesimal calculus opened up new applications of the methods of mathematics to science. Newton taught that scientific theory should be coupled with rigorous experimentation, which became the keystone of modern science

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723) constructed powerful single lens microscopes and made extensive observations that he published around 1660, opening up the micro-world of biology

Feb 28, 1500