Scientific Revolution

  • Dec 1, 1493

    Columbus discovers new world

    Columbus discovers new world
    A new journey of America starts. Christopher Columbus (c. 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506) was a navigator, colonizer, and explorer from the Republic of Genoa, in northwestern Italy,
  • Dec 1, 1543

    Nicolas Copernicus Publishes De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolutions of Celestial Bodies)

    Nicolas Copernicus Publishes De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolutions of Celestial Bodies)
    This is his biggest work, he sets out the heliocentric theory.
  • Giordano Bruno Publishes The Ash-Wednesday Supper, On Cause, Principle, and Unity, and On the Infinite Universe and Its Worlds

    Giordano Bruno Publishes The Ash-Wednesday Supper, On Cause, Principle, and Unity, and On the Infinite Universe and Its Worlds
    The renegade Italian monk unfolds his philosophy, the centerpiece of which is the contention that the universe is infinitely large and that the Earth is by no means at the center of it. For the expression of his thoughts, Bruno is burned at the stake as a heretic.
  • Galileo Galilei Demonstrates the Properties of Gravity

    Galileo Galilei Demonstrates the Properties of Gravity
    Galileo demonstrates, from the top of the leaning tower of Pisa, that a one- pound weight and a one hundred-pound weight, dropped at the same moment, hit the ground at the same moment, refuting the contention of the Aristotelian system that the rate of fall of an object is dependent upon its weight.
  • Francois Viete Invents Analytical Trigonometry

    Francois Viete Invents Analytical Trigonometry
    Viete was one of the first to use letters to represent unknown numbers, and in 1591 he invented analytical trigonometry using this algebraic method.
  • Galileo Publishes Dialogue on the Two Chief Systems of the World

    Galileo Publishes Dialogue on the Two Chief Systems of the World
    Galileo's magnum opus uses the laws of physics to refute the Aristotelian contention that the Earth is the center of the solar system and supports the heliocentric Copernican view.
  • Heliocentric theory

    Heliocentric theory
    -Theory that the Earth and Planets revolve around the sun
    -Established By Coernicus
  • Robert Boyle Publishes Origin of Form and Qualities

    Robert Boyle Publishes Origin of Form and Qualities
    Boyle's work, though highly flawed, sets the stage for the study of matter on the atomic level.
  • Giovanni Alfonso Borelli

    Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
    employs mechanical principles in his analysis of animal movement in his posthumously published De motu animalum (On the Motions of Animals).
  • Newton's Theory of Gravity

    Newton's Theory of Gravity
    Newton published the book "Principia" first published on 5th, of July 1687.