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1493
Copernicus Born
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1514
Copernicus creates “Little Commentary”
A writing by Copernicus discussing his view on the heliocentric universe -
1543
Copernicus Dies
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Feb 15, 1564
Galileo Born
In Pisa, Italy -
1574
Moved to Florence, Italy
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1581
Studied Medicine
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Taught Mathematics
At the University of Pisa -
Started to show interest in astronomy
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Read a book by Johannes Kepler
The book was about Copernicus ideas on astronomy. Than after Galileo read the book he wrote a letter to the author, Johannes Kepler, stating that he agrees with the same ideas. -
First Known Astronomical Observation
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Discovered Jupiter’s 4 moons
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Published the “Letterson Sunspots”
This stated his opinion of a geocentric universe. -
Copernicus’ book and ideas were banned in Rome
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Florentine became Pope Urban VII
Florentine admired Galileo -
Galileo’s book appeared in Florence
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Galileo was charged with “vehement suspicion of heresy”
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Galileo died
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Newton Born
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Newton publishes “Mathematical Principals of Natural Phisiology”
This discusses his view on all three laws of motion -
Newton dies
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Marie Curie born
born in a warsaw, poland -
Marie Curie graduates high school at age 15
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She meets Pierre Curie and marries him
Because she met her husband she did not want to go back to Poland -
Marie Curie and her husband discover a new element
She discovered an element that is 400 times more radioactive than anything else, it is called polonium -
Marie received her doctorate degree in physics
This was the first for a woman in France -
So bonnets gave the Curies a new lab
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Marie accepts Rutherford’s decay theory and Marie Curie dies
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She gets her 2nd Nobel Prize in Chemistry