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Period: Jan 1, 1500 to
Important People 1-10
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May 25, 1521
Martin Luther Outlawed
At the Diet of Worms, Martin Luther was declared a heratic -
May 24, 1543
Copernicus completes his life's work
His book, "Dē revolutionibus orbium coelestium" was his manuscript desribing his heliocentric hypothesis, which was the basis for future astronomy. -
Apr 1, 1554
Ignatius of Loyola wrote the Jesuit Constitutions
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Jan 22, 1555
Calvin Secures the Reformation
John Calvin convinced the council to let Swiss churches keep the original Ordonnances and the Consistory would regain its official powers. -
Nov 11, 1572
Supernove of 1572 discovered by Brahe
Tycho Brahe discovered and studied a bright object in the sky, he was the first to hypothesize it was a new star, giving it the term De nova stella -
Kepler began working for Brahe
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Galileo
Wrote The Starry Messenger, which reported discoveries made by Galileo on the Galilean moons, the roughness of the Moon's surface,the existence of a large number of stars invisible to the naked eye, particularly those responsible for the appearance of the Milky Way, and
differences between the appearances of the planets and those of the fixed stars. -
Descartes wrote La Géométrie
This was a major work in geometry that greatly sped up mathematics -
The Pricipia is published
In this work, Isaac Newton described the 3 universal laws of motion -
Bacon writes History of Life and Death
The treatise explained Bacon's natural and experimental observations for medicine
