Scientific Revolution Timeline

  • Period: Jan 1, 1540 to

    Scientific timespan

  • Jan 1, 1543

    Copernicus publishes heliocentric theory

  • Mar 15, 1543

    Vesalius publishes Human Anatomy textbooks

  • Mar 15, 1572

    Brahe discovers Nova which contradicts Aristotles idea that the universe is unchanging.

  • Mar 15, 1581

    Galileo discovered the law of the pendulum

  • Janssen invents microscope.

  • Kepler publishes first two laws of planitary motion.

  • Galileo publishes Starry Messenger

  • Bacon's book Novum Organum encourages experitmental method

  • Harvey reveals how a human heart functions

  • Galileo faces inquisition for support of Copernicus's Theory

  • Descartes's book "Discourse on Method" sets forth his scientific method his scientific reasoning of the basis of doubt

  • Torricelli invents Barometer

  • Boyle discovers mathematical relationship between pressure and volume of gases, a.k.a. Boyles Law

  • Leeuwenhoek observes bacteria through microscope.

  • Newton pushes Law of Gravity

  • Fahrenheit invents mercury thermometer.