Important eras during the Scientific Revolution

Isacc Newton discovers that light reflects from glass.

1600 BCE

Isaac Newton discovers that light is made up of all of the colors of the rainbow, which are reflected by different amounts in a glass prism.

Isaac Newton discover Calculas

Jul 31, 1607

Isaac Newton invents calculus the mathematics of change without which we could not understand the modern world.

Johannes Kepler publishes his first two laws

Apr 18, 1609

1609 – Johannes Kepler publishes his first two laws of planetary motion showing that planets move in orbits around the sun.

Galileo discovers Jupiter and its moons

Jun 17, 1609

Galileo Galilei observes Jupiter’s four largest moon

Otto von Guericke

Aug 17, 1660

Otto von Guericke builds a rotating sphere from which sparks fly.