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Period: 1400 to
Important people of the Scientific Revolution
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Feb 19, 1473
Nicolaus Copernicus
Discovered the heliocentric theory -
Dec 14, 1546
Tycho Brahe
Made the most accurate celestial observations of his time and challenged the belief of how the universe was organized -
Feb 15, 1564
Galileo Galilei
Reinvented the telescope and supported the heliocentric theory(where the sun is in the center of the universe) -
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Reinvented microscopes and discovered microorganisms(cells, protists, etc.) -
Isaac Newton
Discovered the 3 laws of motion