the scientific revolution

  • 1578 BCE

    William Harvey (1578-1657) demonstrated that blood circulates, using dissections and other experimental techniques.

  • 1571 BCE

    Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) publicó las dos primeras de sus tres leyes del movimiento planetario en 1609.

  • 1564 BCE

    Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) improved the telescope, with which he made several important astronomical discoveries, including the four largest moons of Jupiter, the phases of Venus and the rings of Saturn, and made detailed observations of the sunspots.

  • 1546 BCE

    Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) made extensive and precise observations to the eye of the planets in the sixteenth century.

  • 1543 BCE

    Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543) published On the Motion of the Celestial Spheres in 1543, which proposed the heliocentric theory of cosmology.

  • 1514 BCE

    Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) published De Humani Corporis Fabrica (1543), which discredited Galen's views. He found that the circulation of blood came from the pumping of the heart. He also mounted the first human skeleton cutting open corpses.

  • 1500 BCE

    The scientific revolution took place from the sixteenth century through the seventeenth century and saw the formation of conceptual, methodological

  • 1500 BCE

    the authority of the Bible, the Church, the speculations of ancient philosophers

  • 1500 BCE

    Scientific knowledge, according to the Aristotelians, was concerned with establishing the true and necessary causes of things

  • 1500 BCE

    Newton had also specifically attributed the inherent power of inertia to matter.

  • 1500 BCE

    The scientific network that focused on Gresham College played a crucial role in the meetings leading up to the formation of the Royal Society.

  • 1500 BCE

    The Protestantism and science thesis, based more on statistical claims that Protestants play a disproportionate role in the development of modern science than on causative explanation.

  • 1500 BCE

    The concept of scientific revolution that took place over a prolonged period arose in the eighteenth century with the work of Jean Sylvain Bailly.

  • 1500 BCE

    The philosopher and historian Alexandre Koyré coined the term scientific revolution in 1939 to describe this time.

  • Isaac Newton worked on the work of Kepler and Galileo. He showed that a law of the inverse square of gravity explained the elliptical orbits of the planets, and introduced the law of universal gravitation.