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276 BCE
Eratosthenes
He accurately measured the circumference of the Earth -
1 BCE
Ptolemy
Ptolemy discovered that the Earth was the center of Universe also known as the geocentric view. -
Feb 19, 1473
Copernicus
Copernicus discovered that the sun is actually the center of our Universe and not the Earth this known as the heliocentric view. -
Dec 14, 1546
Tycho Brahe
He was the assistant of Johannes Kepler, he discovered the irregularities in the Moon's orbits -
Jan 22, 1561
Francis Bacon
Bacon was an influence to the scientific revolution by developing the scientific method and Empiricism. -
Feb 15, 1564
Galileo
Galileo made a telescope to observe our Solar System, one of his observations was identifying the four moons of Jupiter -
Mar 31, 1569
Renes Descartes
Descartes influenced people that, if it can't be proven then it must not be true which is also known as Descartes skepticism. -
Dec 27, 1571
Johannes Kepler
Kepler discovered the planetary motions of our planets in the Solar System. -
John Locke
Locke came up with the idea that knowledge is all obtained throgh experience. -
Isaac Newton
Newton defined our laws of gravity and motion, he also broke down the idea of prisms and light. -
Dmitri Mendeleev
Mendeleev organized the structure of the periodic table by the element atomic mass and similarities. -
Marie Curie
Marie Curie discovered 2 known elements of the periodic table, radium and polonium. -
Alfred Wegner
Discovered that the continents used to be connected also known as Pangea. -
Edwin Hubble
Hubble and his research proved that the Universe was still expanding and will continue to expand. -
Harry Hess
He discovered that magma contributed to the continental and plate tectonic drift. -
Henrietta Leavitt
Leavitt was an astronomer who observed stars and their luminosity.