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Period: Jan 1, 1400 to
The Scientific Revolution
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Oct 31, 1451
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus is born. This would be one of the starting points of the Scientific Revolution. He would become a navigator and an explorer from the republic of Genoa. -
Sep 20, 1517
Martin Luther
He was a German priest and professor of theology who initiated the Protestant Reformation. Strongly disputing the claim that freedom from God's punishment of sin could be purchased with money, he confronted indulgence salesman Johann Tetzel with his 95 in 1517. His refusal to retract all of his writings at the demand of Pope Leo X in 1520 and the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Worms in 1521 resulted in his excommunication by the pope and condemnation as an outlaw by the emperor. -
Sep 17, 1527
Ferdinand Magellan
Ferdinand Magellan completes the first circumnavigation of the globe. He was a portugese explorer that was from the city of Sabrosa. But later had a spanish nationality when he served king charles the 1st of spain. -
May 23, 1543
Nicolaus Copernicus
He was the first scientist to make a really good heliocentric crosmology. It displaced the earth from the center of the universe. He published a book called De revolutionibus orbium coelestium which was the one of the starting points of astronomy. -
Mar 17, 1546
Girolamo Fracastoro
Girolamo Fracastoro was an Italian physician, scholar (in mathematics, geography and astronomy), poet and atomist. He proposed that epidemic diseases are caused by spores that can be spread from short or long distances. -
René Descartes
He has been named the father of Philosophy. He was also the father of analytial geometry. He made a very big impact in the scientific revolution with all of his different philosophies. -
Tycho Brahe
Tycho Brahe was a Danish nobleman who was known for his accurate and comprehensive astronomical and planetary observations. Kepler tried to persuade tycho to adopt his heliocentric model of the solar system. -
Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei commonly known as Galileo, was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution. His achievements include improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations, and support for Copernicanism. -
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler was a German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer, and key figure in the 17th century scientific revolution. He is best known for his eponymous laws of planetary motion, codified by later astronomers, based on his works Astronomia nova, Harmonices Mundi, and Epitome of Copernican Astronomy. These works also provided one of the foundations for Isaac Newton's theory of universal gravitation. -
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian, and is considered by many scholars and members of the general public to be one of the most influential people in human history. His Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Latin for "Mathematical Principles Of Natural Philosophy"; usually called the Principia), published in 1687, is probably the most important scientific book ever written.