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Sep 18, 1513
Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus wanted a simpler way to explain the Ptolemaic system. The backwards motion of the planets confused other philosphers and so did the variations in planetary speed. -
Jan 1, 1539
Andreas Vesalius
"Venesection Letter". Venesection is another word for bloodletting, a treatment that required "letting blood out". The essay described the veins that drew blood from the side of the torso, thich led to William Harvey's discovery of blood circulating through the body. -
May 1, 1543
Nicolaus Copernicus
published famous book, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Speres -
Rene Descrates
He claimed that the world was created by God and that it was made of two substances: matter and spirit. Matter was the physical universe and spirit was the human mind. He considered that perhaps God or an evil spirit was constantly tricking his mind causing him to believe what was false. -
Johannes Kepler
Using the data collected by Tyco Brahe Johannes Kepler developed his planetary laws which state that the orbits of the planets around the sun are eliptical. -
Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galileio, a remarkable astronomer, used evidence that he acquired with a telescope to prove Copernicus's theory correct. In 1610 he published the Starry Messenger. This caused great controversy later for him when the Church asked him to take back his evidence and lie but he would not do so. -
Galileo Galilei
in 1613 he published Letters if Sunspots -
william Harvey
William Harvey discovered that blood circulates continously through the body from the heart and back to the heart. Not the liver. -
Robert Boyle
Robert was influenced by Galileo's death and began to study Galileo's work. -
Rene Descartes
Rene Descartes is considered the father of modern philosophy. -
Margaret Cavendsih
Cavendish published the poem , Philosophical Fancies -
Robert Boyle
Boyle conducted many experiments on the nature of low pressure air. He showed that sound does not travel through a vacuum, flames require air and animals need air to live. In the appendix which contains Boyle's Law, he also defends the idea that a vacuum can exist where popular belief at the time was otherwise. -
Robert Boyle
Boyle's first law states that pressure and volume are inversely proportional. -
Robert Boyle
Robert Boyle said that air is necessary for candles to burn. as the candle heats the air expands it. This cancels the depletion of the oxygen temporarily and the water level stays down. When the oxygen is gone, the candle goes out and the air cools. The volume of the air decreases and the water rises. The temporary temperature change delays the rise of the water. While water is initially gas, -
Margatet Cavendish
Cavendish published The Description of a New World -
Margaret Cavendish
Margaret was one of the first women who contributed to the Scientific Revolution. She was a noble woman who had been privately tutored. In 1666 she wrote Observations Upon the Experimental Philosophy. -
Isaac Newton
Newton developed a system that would later lead to the discovery and advance of calculus, which he presented in a manuscript. -
Isaac Newton
Newton produces his first reflecting telescope -
Robert Boyle
Robert Boyle produces hydrogen by reacting metals with acid. -
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton finishes the calculations on gravity and publishes it. -
Maria Winkelmann
Discovered a comet , got credit for it in1930. Her husband took credit for it. She was the first woman to discover something like that -
Antoine Lavoisier
Discovery that Mass remains the same in different forms -
Antoine Lavoisier
Named elements of Oxygen and Hydrogen -
Antoine Lavoisier
Helped develop the Metric System
