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Sep 8, 1522
Ferdinand Magellan completes the first circumnavigation of the globe
They set sail on September 20, 1519. Magellan started his crew with 237 men. In October 1520, a group of men spotted a strait which was later named Strait of Magellan. During the voyage his crew suffered because they were having food shortages. Magellan died on April 27, 1521 but Juan Sebastian Del Cano took over to finish the voyage. At that point only 2 ships & 47 men remained. On September 8th, they arrived at Seville, Spain with 18 survivors who completed the voyage around the globe. -
Period: Sep 8, 1522 to
Scientific Revolution
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Jan 1, 1543
Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
He demonstrated that the motions of heaven can be explained wihtout the earth being in the center of the system. right now we can tell that we are observing the earth from a special position. Copernicus initiated the revoluton, but wasnt able to complete it. -
The Cosmographic Mystery
Johannes Kepler. He argued that the distances of the planets from the Sun in the Copernican system were determined by the five regular solids, if one supposed that a planet's orbit was circumscribed about one solid and inscribed in another. Kepler's model helped explain the relative distances of the planets from the Sun in the Copernican System. -
Galileo's discoveries with the telescope. (The Starry Messenger)
In 1609, he engaged his astronomical ideas to make him famous.
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The Thirty Years war
The war was fought in what is now called Germany. The war was fought because of religious conflicts between Protestants and Catholics in the Holy Roman Empire. Extensive destruction was a major impact during the war. October 24, 1648 a treaty was signed to end the Thirty Years War. -
Baconian method
Sir Francis Bacon. This method was put forward into one of his books called Novum Organum. This method consists of procedures for isolating and further investigating the form nature. -
Galileo- The Assayer
The Assayer was an italian book that galileo had written and had been published in Rome. This book is a polemic agianst the treatise on the comets. The title page shows the crest of the Barberini family. The book has astronomical views of jesuit. -
Projectile Motion.
Galileo. No force is necessary to keep a body moving on a level. Motion is now a state rather than a process, and rest is motion of zero speed. A body is indifferent to motion, no mover is required to sustain movement once a body is in motion. -
The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
Issac Newton. Published a book. He spread the light of mathematics on a science which up to then had remained in the darkness of conjectures and hypotheses. Newton developed and used mathematical methods now included in the field of calculus. -
The Destruction of the Aristotelian Cosmos.
Issac Newton. Considerations of such concepts as perfection, harmony, teleology, formal and final causality, and value are removed from scientific discussion. The world wasnt viewed as finite anymore. Astronomy and Physics have been geometrically unified.