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1500
Changing the belief system.
In the 1500's Europeans believed that magic was reasoning for many things. They also relied on religion for all their understanding about the universe, which couldn't be proven, but everyone just believed it because that is the way they have been living for since the beginning of time. Once science began to rise, most people were in disbelief because it goes against everything the thought before. This was important because it is the start of the Scientific revolution. -
1543
Copernicus
His theory went against to what peoples senses told them. He said that the sun was the center of the universe. Copernicus had new thinking about the world that changed the way people thought about astronomy. It challenged the way people thought because everyone thought one thing and then Copernicus thought something different that most people disagreed with. -
1543
Vesalius
Vesalius is important in the scientific revolution because he pioneered the study of anatomy. He refused to accept descriptions of human muscles and tissues written by Galen. He did his own studies of the human body to see how the human body was constructed. Harvey also studied the circulation of blood and the heart. This was important because since we are more educated on the human body and know how to cure diseases. Knowing about our body can spark new ideas about other things -
Kepler
Kepler confirmed and fixed Copernicus by using new tools that didn't exist when he came up with his theory. Some of Copernicus's findings were incorrect so that slowed Kepler down. Since Copernicus theory, the heliocentric theory, was proven it changed the way people thought about the world. Since they knew the heliocentric theory was true because there was science behind it, it was a big change because it is no where near what they used to think. -
Galileo
Galileo proved that heavier objects do not always faster than lighter ones. Galileo was by many church scholars. They refused to believe him because it seemed to contradict the bible. Many scholars who believed in Ptolemy old geocentric theory also did not accept Galileo findings, even though he had math and science to prove himself. This is an important event because it went against religion which they based a lot of their reasoning on. -
Descartes
Descartes was a french philosopher and mathematician and was the leader of the Scientific Revolution. His ideas led to great advances in mathematics, the sciences and philosophy. He believed that all assumptions had to be proven on the basis of known facts. This saved time for the other people in the scientific revolution because they wouldn't have to waste there time believing false assumptions unless there was facts behind it. -
Francis Bacon
Bacon was an English philosopher and scientist. He believed that scientific theories could be devolved only though observation. He thought nothing could be trusted unless it could be proven by reliable experiments. He was important toward the Scientific revolution because it made people second guess their assumptions. -
Robert Boyle
Boyle was important because he helped to pioneer the modern science of chemistry. Chemistry studies the composition of matter and how it changes. This is significant because he did something that impacted us so much that it is our modern science of chemistry. Without this, we would not have many things. -
Hooke
His research and experiment ranged from astronomy to biology to physics. He is particularly recognized for the observations he made while using a microscope. This was important because it gave new opportunities for ideas. -
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek
Leeuwenhoek used the telescope to discover bacteria. He wrote range of tiny forms never seen before by the human eye. This contributed to the revolution because bacteria can cause people to get sick, if people are getting sick we can start to learn about more medications. So learning about bacteria branched off and could make a bigger revolution. -
Newton
Newton published a book building on the work and ideas of Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo. He did more experiments and measurements and built more upon Copernicus's thinking. Newton also explained the laws of motion and developed the mathematical means of measuring motions. He had a big impact on science and changed the way people looked at the world. -
New views and inventions
Since Newton came up with new laws it influenced people. His laws of motion and gravitation are applied in the development of everything from automobiles to space travel. Most Europeans still accept god as creator of the universe, they now began to think that creation as a kind of giant mechanical clock. -
Gottfried Liebnitz
Liebnitz developed calculus, a new branch of mathematics. This is relevant to the scientific revolution because this was a new way to prove theories correct and we need calculus in our everyday lives. -
Joseph Priestley
He discovered the element of oxygen. This was significant because it answered the question of why things burn. This also gave opportunity for more ideas to branch off of his. -
Lavoisier
He showed that steam mixes with the air and becomes invisible. He proved that matter change form, but neither can be destroyed or created. This is known as the law of conversation matter. This is important because its the most relevant principles in the study of chemistry.
