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Apr 15, 1452
Leonardo da Vinci
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Feb 19, 1473
Nicolas Copernicus
Made an astronomical theory that the sun was near the center of the universe and that the earth and other planets rotated around the center. -
Jan 22, 1561
Francis Bacon
Father of the Empiricism -
Feb 15, 1564
Galileo Galilei
A proffessor of astronomy at University of Pisa.Was the first to use a refracting telescope to make important astronomical discoveries.He discovered moons of the planet Jupiter and the phases of the planet Venus. -
Aristotelian System
Aristotle believed that form caused matter to move and defined motion by which the thing itself became motion itself.