Changing Timelines

  • Feb 19, 1473

    Copernicus' Birth

  • 1491

    Copernicus studies at various universities in Poland and Italy

    There he questioned what he was being taught by his professors and started to study astrology on the side.
  • 1497

    Copernicus becomes a canon of the cathedral

  • 1514

    Copernicus circulates his "Little Commentary"

    This introduces his heliocentric view
  • 1532

    Copernicus completes "On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres"

    Copernicus waits until 1541 to publish until he was supported by his mathematician friend, Georg Rheticus.
  • May 24, 1543

    Copernicus' Death

  • Newton's Birth

  • Newton Attends Cambridge University

  • Newton Publishes Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosoph

  • Newton Publishes his Ideas About Gravity

  • Newton Publishes Opticks

  • Newton's Death

  • Mendeleev's Birth

  • Mendeleev Ateends One of the First International Chemistry Conferences

  • Mendeleev Publishes textbook, Organic Chemistry

  • Mendeleev Devises the Periodic Table

  • Mendeleev's Death

  • Mendeleevium is Added to the Periodic Table