Scientific Revolution timeline

  • 100

    Ptolemy said that the earth is the center of the universe

  • Jan 1, 1200

    Robert Bacon introduced the idea of science instead of what people thought and magic

  • Jan 1, 1500

    In the early 1500's europeans saw no difference in science and magic

  • Jan 1, 1500

    During the era of the scientific revolution people began to do experiments and mathematics to solve their problems

  • Jan 1, 1510

    Nicolaus Copernicus made a theory about how instead of the earth being the center of the univere, the sun is the center of the universe

  • Jan 1, 1543

    Andreas Vesalius studied anatomy and made a seven volume book in 1543

  • Francis Bacon thought that no idea could be used without proof

  • Johannes Kepler confirmed Copernicus's theory with mathematics and put out his laws of planetary motion

  • Galileo Galilei created the teloscope

  • Rene Descartes was a leader in the scientific revolution and he helped improve mathematics and sciences greatly

  • In 1662 , Robert Boyle showed that temperature and pressure affect the space that a gas occupies

  • In 1687 Isaac Newton published a book on Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo

  • Issac Newton proved that objects attract to each other and gravity keeps our planets orbiting each other

  • Antoine Lavoisier discovered fire, and found out that material can't be destroyed or created

  • Joesph Priestly discovered the element oxygen in 1774 and Antoine Lavoisier named it