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Period: Dec 1, 1540 to
Scientific Revolution
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May 1, 1543
Nicolas Copernicus writes De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium
Nicolas Copernicus wrote this book, translated into English means, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres. It was first printed in the year 1543, in Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. It was in this book that it was first mentioned that the Earth was not the center of the universe. -
Dec 14, 1546
Tycho Brahe Born
Tycho Brahe was born in a place which in his time was part of Denmark. He was an astronomer, and his works laid the foundation for Johannes Kepler. Tycho Brahe made his observations in an island called Hven, there he built a research institute called Uraniborg. The Tychonic system is a model of the solar system made by him. -
Jan 22, 1561
Francis Bacon Born
Francis Bacon was the son of Sir Nicholas Bacon, he kept the great seal for Elizabeth I. Bacon went to school in Cambridge University. He was an English man that made his fame in science. Bacon invented the scientific method, sometimes known as the Baconinan method. This method is still used today, it also laid the foundation to many other later scientist. Not only was he just a scientist, he was also a parliamentarian. In 1626, he passed away due to pneumonia, -
Dec 27, 1571
Johannes Kepler Born
Johannes Kepler was German born, he was a mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer. During his lifetime, he was a math teacher, assistant astronomer, and even an imperial mathematician. Kepler is well known for correctly explaining planetary motion, eyeglass, and contributing ideas and theories to astronomy. -
Copernicus' Book Banned
In 1616, Copernicus' book, De Revolutionibus Orbium Caelestium, was banned. It was declared by the Roman Catholic that the book be corrected, by this they meant that the book should omit how Copernicus thought that the Sun was the center of the Earth.
It was not until many years later that the book was taken from the banned list. This happened in the year 1835. -
Galileo Galilei writes Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, one of Galileo Galilei's famous writings. It compared the Copernican system to the Ptolemaic system. Copernican sytem was based on the fact that Earth and other planets revolved around the Sun. The Ptolemaic system was the belief that everything revolved around Earth.
When the book was published, He was tried and suspected of heresy, he spent the rest of his life under house arrest. Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo, Italian title. -
Rene Descartes publishes La Geometrie
Rene Descartes was born March 31, 1956. He was a French philosopher, mathematician, physicist and writer. He wrote Discours de la méthode,and La Geometrie was just an appendix to the book. Descartes invented an algebraic geometry called analytic geometry. -
Isaac Newton and the Primitive Reflecting Telescope
Isaac Newton did not invent the telescope, but he did make an improvement on the previous one. One important change that he made was that he added a reflector and an eyepiece. The reflector made it possible to look at the object at a 90 degree angle, blocking any other light. This telescope has gone through some changes over the years, but it is still called the Newtonian Reflector. -
Newton's Laws of Motion
Isaac Newton was born on December 25, 1643. He compiled the three laws in the book he wrote, Principia Mathematica, where the laws first appeared. The laws are used to explain and investigate the motion of an object.
The laws are used today, and will forever be used in any and every sciene class. -
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
John Locke, known as the Father of Liberalism, wrote these works, being one of his most famous. Locke was a English philosopher and physician during the Enlightenment. He was born in the year 1632 and passed away in 1704.
In the essay, he states the idea that when a human is born, they have an empty mind. This changes as the years go by and the person gains experience. Although Locke doesn't necessarily say there is a god, he admits that there is an all-powerful and knowing being.
