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Jun 16, 1543
Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance astronomer and the first person to come up with a reasonable heliocentric model which shows the Earth from the center of the universe. In 1543, just before Copernicus died, he published On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres which describes astronomy and began the Scientific Revolution. -
Dec 14, 1546
Tycho Brahe
Tycho Brahe was an astronomer known for his accurate astronomical and planetary observations. Tycho worked to combine the benefits of the Copernican system with the benefits of the Ptolemaic system into his own model of the universe, the Tychonic system. -
May 15, 1581
Galileo Galilei
Galileo used the telescope to confirm the phases of Venus. In 1581 he intvented the Law of Pendelum -
William Harvey
William Harvey was an English physician who was the first person to completely describe how blood pumps to the body by the heart. In 1616, Harvey took part in Lumleian lectureship and gave lectures and presentations to groups of people informing them more on anatomy. -
JohannesKepler
1619 Johannes Kepler published Harmonices Mundi in which he describes his third law of planetary motion. Kepler discovered the orbit of Mars is an ellipse and was the founder of "celestial mechanics", being the first to explain planetary motion. -
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon was an English philosopher and scientist. His works established methods for scientific inquiry, often called the Baconian method. Today we call this the scientific method. -
Isaac Newton
In 1687, Isaac Newton published a monograph which described universal gratitaion and the three laws of motion.Newton built the first practical reflecting telescope and developed a theory of color based on the observation using a prism.
