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Copernicus masterwork, he sets out the heliocentric theory.
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Galileo demonstrates, from the top of the leaning tower of pisa, that a one pound weight and a one hundred pound weight hit the ground at the same time.
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Galileo's 24 page bookletdescribes his telescopic observations of the moons surface, and of jupiters moons, making the church uneasy.
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Keplers laws of planetary motion describe the form and operation of planetary orbits.
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Bacon attempts to create organization and cooperation within the scientific community by demonstrating how the diverse fields of science relate to one another.
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Descartes discusses how motion may berepresented as a curve along a graph.
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Torricellis invention measures air pressure, demonstrating that air does indeed have weight.
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The royal society brings together the greatest minds of religon in efforts to advance science through cooperation.
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Boyles work, though highly flawed, sets the stage for the study of matter on the atomic level.
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200 people are tried for witchcraft in salem, Massachusetts. Over 7,00 women were executed for witchcraft in Europebetween 1550 and 1700.
