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Ptolemy
Ptolemy stated that Earth was the center of the universe, meaning that everything moved around the earth. -
Sep 20, 1500
Nicolaus Copernicus
Copernicus began studying the theory that the sun was the center of the earth, going against Ptolemy's theory. -
Sep 20, 1543
Copernicus' Theory
Copernicus' published his theory but little amount of people payed attention because many felt that they could clearly tell the earth doesn't move and everything else moves around it. -
Sep 20, 1543
Andreas Vesalius
Vesalius published a book on the way the human body was constructed and how it worked. -
Johannes Kepler
Kepler proved Copernicus theory correct and he then published the lows of planetary motion. -
Francis Bacon
He published Novum Organum which stated that he relied on truths that were shown physically rather than thinking. -
Galileo Galilei
Galilei began using the device Telescope and observed the planets in space. He published his findings of how not everything revolves around Earth. -
Rene Descartes
Descartes felt that no assumptions should be accepted with out questions, he mentioned this in Discourse on Method. -
Rene Descartes
Descartes a french philosopher died in 1650 -
Robert Boyle
Boyle proved that the space gas occupies is affected by temperature and pressure. -
Isaac Newton
Newton published a book that went off of the work of Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo, explaining why planets revolve around the sun. -
Antoine Lavoisier
Lavoisier proved that fire was not an element, which is what people believed before. -
Joseph Priestley
Priestley, an English chemist founded the oxygen element.