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Period: Jan 1, 1500 to
Scientific Revolution
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Oct 31, 1517
Martin Luther started The Reformation
The Reformation was a European Christian reform movement that established Protestantism as a constituent branch of contemporary Christianity -
Jan 1, 1543
The Publication of "On The Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres"
The seminal work on the heliocentric theory of the Renaissance astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus. -
Jan 1, 1545
The Council of Trent
The 16th century Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church. It is considered to be one of the church's most important councils. -
Jan 1, 1561
Falloppio announces discover of fallopian tubes
Gabriele Falloppio announces his discovery of the fallopian tubes in his Anatomical Observations. -
Galileo invents the Telescope
Galileo was an astronomer that wanted to be able to see far distances, so he invented the telescope -
Controversy on comets
A famous 'controversy on comets' erupted in this year involving Galileo and prominent Jesuit astronomers. -
The first observation of a transit of Venus across the Sun
The first observation of a transit of Venus across the Sun, a rare phenomenon used in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries for determining the distance of the earth from the Sun, is made by the brilliant but short-lived Jeremiah Horrocks at Toxteth Park near Liverpool. Few others offered observations of this telling event, as sky conditions were not favorable on the continent, certainly not in France. -
Newton establishes that white light was heterogeneous
In his first major publication, Isaac Newton established by means of experiment that white light was not one and pure, but rather that white light was mixed and heterogeneous: white light, against tradition, was in fact composed of a spectrum of colors and each color is the result of a measurable angle of bending. Color as a quality was, according to tradition, a quantifiable degree of refrangibility -
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek observes of spermatozoa by means of the microscope
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek observes of spermatozoa by means of the microscope, arguing they are not forms of disease but a source of reproductive material. -
First Textbook on the Calculous
Publication of the first textbook on the calculus by the Marquis de L'Hôpital