Age of exploration Madeline Rose Walding By waldinm20 Period: Jan 1, 1400 to Dec 31, 1800 Age of Exploration Period: Nov 5, 1490 to Dec 4, 1800 Commercial Revolution Aug 1, 1492 Christopher Columbus left Spain Oct 12, 1492 Christopher's ship landed in San Salvador Period: Jan 1, 1500 to Jan 1, 1600 Nicolaus Copernicus He began to abandon Ptolemy's geocentric theory. Period: Jan 1, 1500 to Dec 31, 1600 Scientific discoveries were made throughout Europe Jan 1, 1543 Copernicus's theory published Jan 1, 1543 Vesalius published "On the Fabric of the Human Body" Jan 1, 1596 Rene Descartes is born Jan 1, 1609 Johannes Kepler published his laws of planetary motion Jan 1, 1650 Rene Descartes dies Feb 4, 1662 Boyle showed that temperture and pressure affect the space that a gas occupies Jan 1, 1687 Isaac Newton published a book building on the work of Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo Dec 6, 1790 Priestly made his discovery of oxygen
