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Here are some of the important scientific advances made during the Scientific Revolution
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Copernicus publishes his theory on the Heliocentric Model which states that the sun was the center of the universe
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Galileo was born at Pisa, Italy, February 16
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Galileo, the Italian Giovanni Battista Benedetti opposed the work of Aristotle arguing that freely falling bodies move with speeds and to weight.
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Galileo demonstrates that a one- pound weight and a one hundred-pound weight dropped at the same time and hit the ground at the same time
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Galileo demonstrates that a projectile follows a parabolic path.
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Galileo Galilei constructs his first telescope and turns it toward the heavens
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Galileo's 24-page booklet describes his telescopic observations of the moon's surface. Galileo gave up from spreading his theories.
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Here Galileo appears clearly in the Copernican camp and also provides an early formulation for the principle of inertia.
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Isaac Newton builds his first reflecting telescope; the design, which includes an eyepiece and a concave mirror, is known today as 'Newtonian'.
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Isaac Newton established by means a experiment that white light was not one and pure, but rather that white light was mixed and was diversed in character: white light, against tradition, was in fact composed of a spectrum of colors and each color is the result of a measurable angle of bending.