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early modern period

By eva.b
  • Jan 1, 1502

    Leonardo da vinci

    Leonardo da  vinci
    The first mechanical calculator may have been conceived by Leonardo da Vinci around 1502.
  • Jan 1, 1540

    The heliocentrism

    The heliocentrism
    The heliocentrism is a theory who say that the sun is the center of the Universe for the ancient theory and now is it proved that the sun is the center of our own solar system.
  • The optical microscope

    The optical microscope
    Antonie Philips van Leeuwenhoek thanks to his discovery of microorganisms,in 1673, using a simple single-lensed microscopes he made himself.
    His discovery and so the optical microscope revolutionized biology andcreated a new scientific study : microbiology, from wich van Leeuwenhoek is considered the father.
  • Isaac newton

    Isaac newton
    Isaac Newton is an English mathematician and physicist who lived during the middle of the 17th and early 18th century. He contributed to the Science Revolution of the 17th Century. He’s mostly known for his discovery of gravity and his “theory of universal gravitation” which has been published in the Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica in 1687 among other things such as orbital dynamics and tidal theory.
  • The steam machine

    The steam machine
    The steam engine was created in 1712 by Thomas Newcomen. One of the uses of the steam engine was to remove water from the mines, which wasted a lot of the workers' time because of the laborious methods of removing the water themselves. In 1764, the steam engine was improved by James Watt who found a way for the steam not to escape.