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Period: Nov 15, 1540 to
Scientific Revolution
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May 24, 1543
Corpnicus Heliocentric Model
Nicolas Copernicus Publishes De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolutions of Celestial Bodies) Copernicus' masterwork; he sets out the heliocentric theory.
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Galileo "Messenger of the Heavens"
Galileo Publishes Messenger of the Heavens Galileo's 24-page booklet describes his telescopic observations of the moon's surface, and of Jupiter's moons, making the Church uneasy. The Inquisition soon warns Galileo to desist from spreading his theories. -
John Napier "Marvelous Canon of Logarithms"
John Napier Publishes Description of the Marvelous Canon of Logarithms Napier's invention and cataloguing of logarithms is an essential step in easing the task of numerical calculation. -
Evangelista Torricelli "The Baromete"
Evangelista Torricelli Invents the Barometer, Torricelli's invention measures air pressure, demonstrating that air does indeed have weight, and that the pressure caused by that weight differs in different situations. -
The Royal Society of London is Officially Organized by King Charles II
The Royal Society of London is Officially Organized by King Charles II The Royal Society brings together the greatest minds of the region in efforts to advance science through cooperation. Similar societies subsequently spring up throughout Europe, creating an intellectual network, which produces many of the scientific advances of the later seventeenth century. -
Robert Boyle "Origin of Form and Qualities Boyle's work"
Robert Boyle Publishes Origin of Form and Qualities Boyle's work, though highly flawed, sets the stage for the study of matter on the atomic level. -
Giovanni Alfonso Borelli "On the Motion of Animals "
Giovanni Alfonso Borelli Publishes On the Motion of Animals Borelli's work is the greatest early triumph of the application of mechanical laws to the human organism -
Isaac Newton "Philosophia Naturalis Principia Mathematica"
Isaac Newton Publishes Philosophia Naturalis Principia Mathematica Perhaps the most important event in the history of science, the Principia lays out Newton's comprehensive model of the universe as organized according to the law of universal gravitation or laws of motion. The Principia represents the integration of the works of all of the great astronomers who preceded Newton, and remains the basis of modern physics and astronomy -
Ewald Jürgen Georg von Kleist "Leyden jar"
The Leyden jar, or Leiden jar, is a device that "stores" static electricity between two electrodes on the inside and outside of a jar. It was the original form of the capacitor. The Leyden jar was used to conduct many early experiments in electricity, and its discovery was of fundamental importance in the study of electricity. -
Benjamin Franklin "kite experiment"
Franklin conducted an experiment to prove that lightning is electricity by flying a kite in a storm which appeared capable of becoming a lightning storm. Franklin proposed that "vitreous" and "resinous" electricity were not different types of electricity, but the same electricity under different pressures. He was the first to label them as positive and negative, and was the first to discover the principle of conservation of charge.
