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Period: 100 to
Scientific Revolution
The Scientific Revolution Timeline -
1473
Nicolaus Copernicus
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1473
Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus was the first person to believe that the sun was what the earth rotated around not the sun rotating around the earth. His ideas helped make way for other great sciences such as Galileo, Newton, Kepler and Descartes. His ideas was what we now know as the heliocentric theory. -
1514
Andreas Vesalius
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1514
Andreas Vesalius
In 1540-43 Andreas Vesalius went against the Roman Church and dissected animals. With these animals he published a book on the 7 Parts of the human body. This book displayed very detailed picture that helped future doctors and physicians to know more about the body. People use to think that the Greek Physician Galen’s description of the body was right but Andreas Vesalius proved them wrong in his book. -
1578
William Harvey
William Harvey used laws to study the circulation of blood the cardiac system and how blood moved in the threw the heart and in the body. Not only did he realize that blood was pumped by the heart but he also writes papers to prove his point. This changes the views of people because they only knew what others told them with no evidence but he could back up his claims. This helps doctors today to understand more about why we have the heart and why the muscles need blood. -
1578
William Harvey
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William Gilbert
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William Gilbert
William Gilbert used magnetic bodies to create a compass. He was the first person to prove why this happens. He said that because the earth acts like bar magnet. He also was the first to talk about electric attraction, electric force, and magnetic poles. He is considered to some the father of electrical studies. -
Johannes Kepler
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Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler used Nicolaus Copernicus ideas to help him prove and understand the sun-centered system. There idea was revolutionary because most of the people at the time believed that the sun revolved around the earth. These facts helped many scientist such as Isaac Newton to understand their discovery's. -
Francis Bacon
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Francis Bacon
In 1620 Francis Bacon published Novum Organum which challenged the way people thought because Bacon knew that the truth had to be proven and not shown through debating and logic. This helped the course of history because it showed the point of doing the scientific method. The scientific method is when you test something 2-3 (or more times) to find your results. -
Galileo Galilei
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Galileo Galilei
Galileo used the Dutch invention of a telescope and improved it. Using multiple lenses he saw deep into space. This was never seen before by man. Traditional scholars in physics didn’t not like Galileo and they said that heavy objects fall faster than lighter ones. Galileo proved them wrong because there is no friction in space. This has helped the exploration of space for future generations. Without these discoveries getting to them moon or understanding space would be a lot harder. -
Evangelista Torricelli
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Evangelista Torri
Evangelista Torricelli was the first man to create a sustained vacuum which is a place where friction doesn't happen. He also created a barometer that measures altitude and pressure changes. This tool also was used to see the weather. This tool is the cornerstone for more complex tools. This is a big impact because without this we wouldn’t have our favorite app, the weather app. -
Robert Boyle
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Robert Boyle
Robert Boyle pioneer modern chemistry. He strongly argued that the rules/laws of chemistry should be used in the real world scenarios and tests. These beliefs helped him earn the status of the father of chemistry. Boyle's law showed that volume and the pressure affects the amount to gas in area. In a soda the amount of pressure and the volume are unequal. When opening a soda the soda wants to become even with the pressure out side. This is why a shaken soda explodes upon opening. -
René Descartes
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René Descartes
René Descartes who is known as the father of modern philosophy. He also promoted the new science of observation. He didn’t believed in assuming something. But he did allow ideas that were true no matter what and you just know it. His quote “I think, therefor I am.” shows that if you think it proved his exists in the world. He added new information in the mathematics, sciences and philosophy. -
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek
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Antoine van Leeuwenhoek
Antoine van Leeuwenhoek used the microscope to discover bacteria and protozoans. He called them animalcules. He changed how people thought about this because people don't even know what these were. The knowledge of bacteria has helped doctor prescribe the right medicines, it has helped hinge, it helped so much. -
Gottfried Leibniz
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Gottfried Leibniz
Gottfried Leibniz set up the basics for both integral and differential calculus. He also was one of the first geologist. Most importantly though he advance the knowledge of kinetic energy. Kinetic energy is in so many thing it is hard to think of the world without kinetic energy. -
Isaac Newton
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Isaac Newton
Newton was known for many things. His greatest corroboration to the scientific revolution was the understanding of gravity. His realization of gravity helped support Copernicus ideas about the sun centered universe. Newton believed that the earth has gravitational pull which pulls objects down. People in his time though that God and the Angels in heaven decided what should happen but Newton showed that it was more like a clock that kept repeating the same patterns over and over. -
Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley found the element oxygen. This is a big scientific breakthrough because this was a new substance and it was considered a air. Priestley said it is a better air. The air is more pure and this helps climbers on MT. Everest. They use pure oxygen to scale the MT. because of the thinness of air/oxygen at great heights. -
Joseph Priestley
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Antoine Lavoisier
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Antoine Lavoisier
Lavoisier was known as the father of chemistry. (Robert Boyle was the father of modern chemistry.) He proved that a matter can change but not be destroyed. The conservation of matter law is one of the most important laws in chemistry. During his time people believed fire was an element but he proved that fire was a substance rapidly to oxygen. Today we use a form of explosions which is like a fire in our vehicles, and many other ways.
