Scientific Revolution

  • Jan 1, 1543

    Andreas Vesalius Publishes On the Fabric of the Human Body

  • Dec 31, 1543

    Nicolas Copernicus Publishes De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolutions of Celestial Bodies)

  • Giordano Bruno Publishes The Ash-Wednesday Supper, On Cause, Principle, and Unity, and On the Infinite Universe and Its Worlds

  • Francois Viete Invents Analytical Trigonometry

  • Galileo Galilei Demonstrates the Properties of Gravity

  • Galileo Publishes Messenger of the Heavens

  • John Napier Publishes Description of the Marvelous Canon of Logarithms

  • Johannes Kepler Reveals His Third and Final Law of Planetary Motion

  • Francis Bacon Publishes Novum Organum

  • Galileo Publishes Dialogue on the Two Chief Systems of the World

  • Galileo is Forced to Recant his Theories

  • Rene Descartes Publishes His Discourse on Method

  • Rene Descartes Publishes Geometry

  • Evangelista Torricelli Invents the Barometer

  • Otto von Guericke Invents the Air Pump