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Feb 5, 1440
The first printing press
Perhaps one of the most famous inventions of the renissance was the printing press. The prinitng press was created by Johannes Gutenberg a German publisher who was one of the first to make a printing press with movable metal/wooden letters. -
Feb 20, 1448
"The father of mathematical and observational astronamy in the West"
Georg von Peuerbach was an Austrian austronomer and mathematician who began teaching in 1448 in Vienna, Italy. He is known for making a great attempt to reconcile all of the opposing theories of the universe. -
Feb 5, 1530
Mikotaj Kopernik
Mikotaj Kopernik (Nicolaus Copernicus) was a Polish astronomer who based his model of the idea that the sun is the center of the solar system and that the sun orbits the earth and the planets. -
Feb 5, 1569
Gerardus Mercator
Gerardus Mercator, a German philosopher and cartographer was the first to use the term Atlas . He constucted a map of Western Europe. He aslo used longitude and latitude which represented sailing courses. -
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler, a German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer, created a work called Mysterium Cosmographicum, or The Cosmographic Mystery, in his first work of writing about his astronomical studies. This demonstarted the first realization of Jupiter and Saturn's zodiac periodic conjunction. -
" The father of science"
Galileo Galleli also known as "the father of science", was an Italian astronomer who used the telescope to discover the phases of Venus and the four largest satelites of Jupiter. His most important invention was the telescope. -
René Descartes
Rene Descartes was a French philosopher who was the first to determine that science and math can be used to find everything in nature. He was the first to say that the universe is composed of matter and motion. He also created anylitical geometry. -
Star Catalogue
Edmond Halley was the first of all astronomers to actually find the locations of stars with a telescope and record them. The Star Catalogue contained telescopically determined locations of the southern stars. -
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton was an English mathematicion and physicist who made many improvements to classical mechanics. He created the law of universal gravitationand the laws of motion, based off of Aristotle's theories back in Ancient Greece.
