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Period: Jan 1, 1473 to
The Scientific Revolution
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Feb 19, 1473
Nicolas Copernicus Born
He was a Renaissance astronomer, priest and the first person to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology, which displaced the Earth from the center of the universe -
May 9, 1487
The Malleus Malificarum
It was first published in Germany, 1487.
This was a guide book to identifying witches and the qualified punishment.
It was banned from the church in 1490. it was put on the "List of Prohibited Books " or "Index Librorum Prohibitorum" -
Jan 1, 1514
Commentariolus
"Little Commentary",A forty-page outline of an early version of his revolutionary heliocentric theory of the universe. -
Jul 1, 1543
Andreas Vesalius Publishes "On the Fabric of the Human Body"
The first modern science book. It was bascially the foundation for modern biology also.
It is filled with Vesalius' observations of the human body. -
Nov 18, 1543
De revolutionibus
an alternative model of the universe to Ptolemy's geocentric system, which had been widely accepted since ancient times. -
Dec 14, 1546
Tycho Brahe born
Danish nobleman known for his accurate and comprehensive astronomical and planetary observations. -
Nov 11, 1572
"Tycho's Star"
This was a famous year that witnessed a supernova.
This star could be seen in the daylight for 16 months.
They say it started out as bright as Jupitor, but at its peak, it was as bright as Venus. -
Galileo Galilei's First Telescope
Galileo constructs his first telescope and "pointed it towards the heavens".
He constructed several "lookers" on Lippershay's models and Sarpi's description. -
Johannes Kepler's "Harmonice mundi"
"Harmonice mundi" means "Harmonies of the World".
In it, he comes out with his Third Law: "The ratio of the squares of the revolutionary periods for two planets is equal to the ratio of the cubes of their semimajor axes."
It basically draws attention to the relationship between the annual periods of planets and their average distances from the sun. -
Isaac Newton's "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy"
Proposes foundational priniciples of classical mechanics.
He also established a new set of "mental categories", associated with the concepts of force, mass, acceleration (which is the three Laws of Motion", and principle of universal gravitation.
