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Scientific Revolution timeline

Period: 100 to 1800

Roger Bacon the english philosopher and scientist

1200

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Roger-Bacon:
Roger Bacon was an English Philosopher who had a lot of value and thought into the study of nature. He studied mathematics, astronomy, optics, alchemy, and languages. He spent lots of time and energy and lots of money in experimental research, in researching “secret” books. Bacon is known for the magnifying glass witch he discovered. Hes also known by Doctor Mirabilis-in Latin- a wonderful teacher.

Nicolaus Copernicus

1500

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nicolaus-Copernicus
Copernican heliocentrism is the name given to the astronomical model developed by Nicolaus Copernicus. It positioned the Sun near the center of the Universe, motionless, with Earth and the other planets rotating around it in circular paths modified by epicycles and at uniform speeds. This helps engineers and people working with space to understand the sun and how its effects different plants.

Andreas Vesalius

1525

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Andreas-Vesalius
Andreas Vesalius was a anatomist, physician, and author of one of the most influential books on human anatomy. He is considered the father of modern anatomy and his work the beginning of modern medicine. This helped and changed people in the world today to understand human anatomy better to help sicknesses and diseases.

Johannes Kepler

1590

http://galileo.rice.edu/sci/kepler.html
For six years, Kepler taught arithmetic, geometry, Virgil, and rhetoric. He discovered three major laws of planetary motion, conventionally designated as follows: (1) the planets move in elliptical orbits with the Sun at one focus; (2) the “area law” and (3)the “harmonic law”. This has an important impact on the world because without Keplers discoveries today we would not be able to do things that involves planetary motion.

Galileo Galilei

1600

http://www.history.com/topics/galileo-galilei
Galileo Galilei built his first telescope and succeeded. His telescope begin at magnifications of approximately 3X and 10X, the most powerful achieving a magnification of 30X, an instrument he eventually gave away as a gift. Without Galileis invention of the telescope we would not be able see shooting stars or find more things about the world. This challenged people to dicover new things to make the telescope better.

Rene Descartes

1600

http://www.iep.utm.edu/descarte/
Descartes was a leader of the Scientific Revolutions. Hes ideas improved mathematics, sciences and philosophy's. He developed a philosophy called "Discourse on Method". This helped the scientific a lot becuase Descartes you help find new ideas to make up the world we live in today.

Francis Bacon

1600

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon
Francis Bacon believed that scientific theories could be developed only through observations. He was also an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, and author. The Baconian method is what Bacon is known for. He helped the revolution cause it helps understand the science world.

William Harvey

1600

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/harvey_william.shtml
William Harvey was an English physician who made seminal contributions in anatomy and physiology. He was the first to recognize the full circulation of the blood in the human body and to provide experiments and arguments to support this idea. This has helped people throughout the years learn bout the human body to help doctors understand more.

Issac Newton

1667

https://www.biography.com/people/isaac-newton-9422656
Issac Newton was an English mathematician, astronomer, and physicist who is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution. This helps people learn and understand many new things now.

Robert Boyle

1670

http://www.bbk.ac.uk/boyle/
Boyle was an Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist and inventor. The Sceptical Chymist is a big part of what Boyle created. Robert Boyle is talked about in books of chemistry to help chemists today.

Gottfried Leibnitz

1690

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz
Gottfried Leibniz was a German polymath and philosopher who plays a big role in the history of mathematics and the history of philosophy, having developed differential and integral calculus independently of Isaac Newton. Leibniz helped people today understand and teach calculus to figure out math problems today.

Antonie Leeuwennoek

1700

http://www.history-of-the-microscope.org/anton-van-leeuwenhoek-microscope-history.php
Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek was a Dutch businessman, scientist, and one of the notable representatives of the Golden Age of Dutch science and technology. This helps today world because students in biology learn about cells,bacteria,blood to help them in the future.

Alexander Pope

1700

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/alexander-pope
Alexander Pope was an English poet. He is best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer, and he is also famous for his use of the heroic couplet. Hes important in the scientific revolutions because he opened many new ideas to the world using his writing.

Antoine Lavoisier

1760

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Antoine-Laurent-Lavoisier
A french chemist who founded modern chemistry. He demolished the phlogiston theory by demonstrating the function of oxygen in combustion. He named oxygen and hydrogen, and showed how they combined to form water. This is important because without knowing this people would not know what else two elements could create.

Joseph Priestley

1780

https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/josephpriestleyoxygen.html
Joseph Priestly discovered the element oxygen. This helps every going on with doctors and everyone living because without knowing about oxygen and what it does and how it helps no one would be able to live this day.