Newton

science timeline

  • 140

    Ptolemy proposes the Geocentric Model/Theory

    Ptolemy believed that the heavenly bodies' circular motions were caused by their being attached to unseen revolving solid spheres
  • 1471

    Nicolaus Copernicus publishes On The Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres

    is the seminal work on the heliocentric theory of the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus
  • 1543

    Andreas Vesalius publishes On the Fabric of the Human Body

    He was the person that discovered or looked closer into human body's
  • Galileo's experiment at the Leaning Tower of Pisa

    According to the traditional account, to refute the Aristotelian notion that heavier objects fall faster than light ones, Galileo performed an experiment from the top of the leaning tower of Pisa.
  • robert hooke discovers cells

  • Francis Bacon publishes The Advancement of Learning

    Francis Bacon's The Advancement of Learning is considered the first major philosophical book written in English
  • Johannes Kepler published his Laws of Planetary Motion

    He discovered the 3 laws of motion
  • Antonie van Leeuwenhoek discovers bacteria

    Van Leeuwenhoek discovered protozoa the single-celled organisms and he called them "animalcules".