THe Scientific Revolution

The Scientific Revolution

Period: Jan 1, 1473 to Dec 31, 1727

Nicolas Copernicus birth

Nov 15, 1473

Birth of Nicolas Copernicus a 16 century scientist. known for many things as in being a mathematician and a classical scholar. His studies really revolutionized the new born world.

Copernicus: heliocentric model

Apr 17, 1543

Copernicus also thought of the idea of heliocentrism and created the heliocentric model. Heliocentrism is the idea that earth and the other planets revolve around one staitionary sun at the center of the universe. Heliocentrism was oposed to geocentric universe that says the earth is the center of the universe. This model was soon expanded by Johannes Kepler and Galileo.

The Copernican System

Nov 15, 1543

One of Copernicus most important findings, the copernican system. The Copernican System introduced three celestial motions which deals with the motion of celestal objects.

1. Rotation of the earth is on its axis
2. The earth and other planets revolve around the sun
3. A conical axial motion of the earth to explain the fixed orientation of the earth in space.

Johannes Kepler first two laws of planetary motion

Nov 17, 1609

1. The orbit of every planet is an ellipse with the Sun at one of the two foci.
2. A line joining the plant and the sun sweeps out equal areas during eqal intervals of time. 3.The square of the orbital period of a planet is directly proportional to the cube of the semi-major axis of its orbit

first measurement of the speed of light

Nov 19, 1676

a Danish astronomer who in 1676 made the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light.

Newton: Laws of motion

Sep 18, 1687

It was said that Newton came around make the laws of motion and gravity and then fixed by more scientist in the furture. A object that is at rest will stay at rest unless an unbalanced force acts upon it. This is one of Newtons first three laws and was later experimented by more scientist to come.