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Jan 1, 1497
Made astronomical observations of orbits of sun, moon, planets .Theorized that Earth wasn't stationary. Also theorized that Earth tilted on its axis once a day & that the planets rotated around the sun.
Nicolas Copernicus (1473-1543) -
May 24, 1543
His future advanced book,On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres ,was published.
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Jan 1, 1566
In 1566 was wounded in a duel over who was the greatest mathematician of all time. He covered the scar on the bridge of his nose with a silver/copper plate.
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Dec 27, 1571
Johannes Kepler is born.
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Nov 11, 1572
November 11, 1572, observed one of the first supernovae to be seen with the naked eye (suddenly a new star existed where none had before)
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Galileo begins to work on certain problems in physics, following Archimedes rather than Aristotle. He invents a hydrostatic balance.
Galileo -
Invents a machine for raising water, a pump driven by horses. In 1594 he receives a patent on this design from the Venetian Senate
Galileo -
Galileo experiments with the pendulum in connection with natural accelerated motion. His friend, the physician Santorio Santorio uses the pendulum principle to invent a pulsilogium, a hand-held pendulum with which to take the pulse.
Galileo -
Between 1609 and 1619 Kepler developed his three laws of planetary motion in Astronomia Nova and Harmonices Mundi
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he became the first to explain accurately how light behaves within the eye, how eyeglasses improve vision, and what happens to light in a telescope.
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He also determined that planets move faster as they near the Sun (second law), and in 1619 he showed that a simple mathematical formula related the planets' orbital periods to their distance from the Sun (third law).
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Born on January 4, 1643, Sir Isaac Newton was an English physicist, mathematician and astronomer.
Sir Isaac Newton -
Discovery of light
Newton had discovered that sunlight is comprised of all the colors of the rainbow, which could not only be separated but recombined into white light. Though he made his experiments on light as early as 1666, when he was only 24 years old, he didn't publish his classic Opticks, which summarized his findings on light and color, until 1704. -
Sir Isaac Newton built his own reflecting telescope in 1668.
