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Period: Jan 1, 1500 to
Scientific Revolution
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Jan 1, 1507
Copernicus's Commentariolus begins to be circulated.
Outlined his revolutionary Copernican heliocentrism theory of the solar system; how everyhting rotated arond the sun. It was very modern for it's time. -
Jan 1, 1570
Tycho Brahe: detailed astronomical observations
Brahe made his observations from Uraniborg, an island in the sound between Denmark and Swed. The instruments he used allowed him to determine more precisely the detailed motions of the planets. Brahe compiled extensive data on the planet Mars, which later on helped Kepler. -
Francois Viete Invents Analytical Trigonometry
Viete's invention is essential to the study of physics and astronomy. -
Galileo Galilei Demonstrates the Properties of Gravity
From the top of the leaning tower of Pisa, experiments that a one- pound weight and a one hundred-pound weight, dropped at the same moment, hit the ground at the same moment. He expounds fully on this demonstration years later in his 1638 -
Giordano Bruno burned at the stake for heresy
In the Campo de' Fiori, a central Roman market square, he was burned at the stake "his tongue imprisoned because of his wicked words".His ashes were dumped into the Tiber river -
Galileo's discoveries with the telescope.
He used it to reported on his observations of the Moon, Jupiter and the Milky Way. -
Johannes Kepler Reveals His Third and Final Law of Planetary Motion.
Kepler's laws of planetary motion describe the form and operation of planetary orbits, and are the final step leading to the academic rejection of the Aristotelian system. -
Galileo is Forced to Recant his Theories
The Inquisition forces Galileo to sign a recantation and condemns him to house arrest for the remaining nine years of his life. His Dialogue is ordered burned as heretical, and his sentence to be read at every university. -
Robert Boyle: Boyle's law of ideal gas
Boyle's law describes the inversely proportional relationship between the absolute pressure and volume of a gas, if the temperature is kept constant within a closed system. -
Newton announces his theory of Colors to the Royal Society.
His observations on the rainbow cast by a shaft of sunlight passing through a glass prism led on to the revolutionary discovery that colour is an inherent property of a ray of light, and that white light is a mixture of other colours.
