Danielle's scientific revolution

Christopher Columbus

Oct 31, 1451

Christopher Columbus was born as is Amerigo Vespucci.
Christopher Columbus was an explorer, navigator, and colonizer, born in the Republic of Genoa, in what is today northwestern Italy. Under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean that led to general European awareness of the American continents.

Nicolas Copernicus

Feb 19, 1473

Nicolas Copernious was born on Feburary 19. 1473.
Nicolas Copernicus was a Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who formulated a comprehensive heliocentric model of the universe, which placed the Sun, rather than the Earth, at the center.

Girolamo Fracastoro

Aug 8, 1530

Girolamo Fracastoro provides one of the first descriptions of a new disease in a work entitled Syphilis, or the French Disease. As an aside, the Italians called it the French disease, the French called it Italian disease. Girolamo Fracastoro was an Italian physician, poet, and scholar in mathematics, geography and astronomy.

Juan Luis Vives

Mar 6, 1531

In his On the Disciplines argues for the reform of education and a more receptive approach to skills traditionally associated with the craft and trade traditions. Juan Luis Vives was a Valencia scholar and humanist who lived nearly his entire life in the Southern Netherlands.

Peter Apian

Apr 16, 1532

Fracastoro observe that the tail of the comet his year, later known as Halley's Comet, pointed away from the sun, a detail also recognized by Regiomontanus. Peter Apian was a German humanist, known for his works in mathematics, astronomy and cartography.

Georg Joachim Rheticus

Feb 16, 1540

Georg Joachim Rheticus is a friend of Copernicus and the presumed author, provides an account of the heliocentric hypothesis in his Narratio prima. Georg Joachim Rheticus was a mathematician, cartographer, navigational-instrument maker, medical practitioner, and teacher.

Gabriele Falloppio

Oct 9, 1561

Gabriele Falloppioannounces his discovery of the fallopian tubes in his Anatomical Observations.often known by his Latin name Fallopian, was one of the most important anatomists and physicians of the sixteenth century.

Galileo Galilei

Apr 23, 1564

born at Pisa, Italy, February 16; Michelangelo Buonarroti dies at Florence, 18 February; William Shakespeare born in England, 23 April.

Pope Gregory XIII

Jan 7, 1582

suggested reform of the Julian calendar, thus leading much of Catholic Europe away from the Julian (Old Style) calendar to the Gregorian (New Style).

Conrad Gessner

Mar 26, 1587

publishes a massive and highly influential work, the History of Animals.