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Period: Jan 1, 1540 to
The Scientific Revolution
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Nov 30, 1543
Nicholas Copernicus publishes "On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres"
Nicholas Copernicus publishes his book "On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres which hypothesizes that the sun was the center of the planetary system and that the planets orbited it instead of Earth as previously thought. -
Period: Feb 16, 1546 to
Galileo Galilei
Galileo i responsible for finding physical proof of the heliocentri model by observing the moons of jupiter with a telescope. He also did work in physics by developing the law of inertia. -
Period: Mar 27, 1561 to
Francis Bacon
Francis bacon developed the empirical method which uses expermientation rather than speculation to gain new knowledge -
Zacharia Janssen invents the first compound microscope
While trying to develop a lens to help people with poor eyesight Zacharia Janssen inventedthe first compound microscope -
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Rene Descartes
Rene Descartes is responsible for developing geometry. He also invented Cartesian dualism which seperated all substances into mind or matter -
Johannes Kepler develops the first two of his laws of planetary motion
Using the data collected by Tyco Brahe Johannes Kepler developed his planetary laws which state that the orbits of the planets around the sun are eliptical and also that the planets move at varying speeds -
Johannes Kepler develops his third law of planetary motion
Johannes Kepler develops his third planetary law which states that the time it takes a planet to make its orbit is directly related to its distance from the sun -
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Robert Boyle
Robert Boye is responsible for developing laws about the expansion of gases and he is also considered one of the fathers of modern chemistry -
Galileo Galilei persecuted at Inquisition
Galileo was convicted of heresy for supporting the heliocentric model at the Inquisition. He was force torecant and was placed under house arrest. -
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Sir Isacc Newton
Sir Isaac Newton is considered the father of modern physics and the person responsible for the discovery of the force of gravity -
Isaac Newton publishes Principia
In Isaac Newton's Princiia he states the three laws universal laws of motion that he developed which solidified the work of Kepler and Galileo. -
Gabriel Fahrenheit develops the Fahrenheit temperatrure scale
Gabriel Fahrenheit developed the Fahrenheit temperature scale which is still used in the United States today -
Anders Celsius develops the Celsius temperature scale
Anders Celsius develops the Celsius temperature scale which places the freezing point of water a zero degrees and the boiling point of water at one hundred degrees. -
Joseph Priestley discovers Oxygen
Joseph Priestley isolated Oxygen and tested it on mice who survived quite well on it -
Edward Jenner develops the smallpox vaccine
Edward Jenner uses cowpox to develop a vaccine to stop the spread of smallpox
