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In 1543 Copernicus worked on the heliocentric model of the solar system it was published, in which he tried to prove that the sun was the center of the universe.
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Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa
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Galileo demonstrates, from the top of the leaning tower of Pisa, that a one- pound weight and a one hundred-pound weight, dropped at the same moment, hit the ground at the same moment, proving someone wrong the struggle of the Aristotelian system that the rate of fall of an object is dependent upon its weight. He gives more details fully on this demonstration years later in his 1638 Discourse on Two New Sciences.
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Galileo Galilei demonstrates that a shot through the air follows a bowl-shaped path.
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Isaac Newton publishes the first edition of his Opticks, based on work done during his days a Cambridge, including a series of creating a opinion about nature and natural philosophy under enumerated as "Queries".
