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Jan 1, 1214
Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon earned the degree of doctor of theology after studying at Oxford and some time in Paris. One of Bacon's greatest accomplishments was discovering the fact that the study of the Hebrew Language is extremely vital- most of the Bibles in these times were written in Hebrew making them unable to be read. Once Bacon stressed the importance of the Hebrew language, many more people were able to read it. More Info -
Jan 1, 1514
Andreas Vesalius
Andreas Vesalius was a man born in the Netherlands. He is responsible for the many discoveries to the human anatomy. He helped realize the human skeleton makes up the body's framework. More Info -
Feb 19, 1543
Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus, of Poland, is known for his discovery of Heliocentrism. This means the Earth is not the center of the universe, but the source of gravitational pull. He said the sun does not move. The Earth moves which makes it look like the sun is moving.
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Jan 22, 1561
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon was born in England in 1561. He is responsible for discovering the fact that we can filter water to make it clearer. He started this discovery with salt water.
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Feb 15, 1564
Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei, born in Italy, was the man responsible for the discovery of the moons around Jupiter. He also discovered sun spots. Galilei also discovered that the milky way is a bunch of stars and not a nebula.
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Dec 27, 1571
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler is a man, born in Germany, who created the three laws of planetary motion. These say why planets orbit the sun. His laws not only apply to planets, but to anything that orbits something in space.
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Apr 1, 1578
William Harvey
William Harvey was a man born in England in 1578. He is the man responsible for figuring out that blood is circulated around our body. He also noted that the heart is the organ responsible for pumping the blood through our veins. More Info -
René Descartes
René Descartes was a man born in 1596 in France. He is responsible for the discovery in mathematics of powers. He discovered that powers could be represented as lines or
curves.
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Robert Boyle
Robert Boyle was a man born in 1627 in Ireland. He is known for discovering Boyle's Law. This relates the volume and pressure of gas.
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Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton was born in a small village in England. He is well known for his discovery of Calculus, theory of universal gravitation, Newtonian mechanics, visible spectrum of light.
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Alex Bleadorn
Alex Bleadorn is born in Waterloo, Iowa! What a great day
