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Feb 19, 1473
Nicolas Copernicus
Nicolas Copernicus was born in Torun, Poland. -
Period: Aug 19, 1519 to Mar 20, 1522
Ferdinand Magellan famously completes the first circumnavigation of the globe.
Magellan set sail from spain in order to find a better route to the spice islands. Ferdinand himself never actually made the whole trip he was killed by natives while trying to convert a chief to Christianisy -
May 24, 1543
Nicolaus Copernicus Dies
Nicolaus Copernicus died in Frombork -
Mar 1, 1551
Nicolaus Copernicus writes a book
Copernicus writes a small book and gives it to his friends to explain his out looks on the universe. In the book he said the Earth wasn't the center of the solar system -
Period: Feb 15, 1564 to
Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei, was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution. -
Holy Roman Emperor, becomes a patron
Johannes Kepler was patronized by Rudolf II as an astronomer and later became an Imperial mathematician the the Emperor -
"Ad vitellioem paralipomena quibus astronomiae pars optica traditor" is published
johannes kelper (the auther) talks about how light rays are rectilinear and how the retina is were the picture of your vision is made. -
The telescope is invented
the first telescope was made in the netherlands and uses a convex objective lens and a concave eyepiece -
Galileo Galilei
Galileo make his first telescope and starts looking at the moon and planets and constalations. it could magnify up to 10x. -
Galileo
Galileo was called before the Inquisition in Rome; he is acused of heresy for supporting and teaching the Copernicanism hypothesis. Galileo was placed under house arrest after he was found guilty, for the remainder of his life, his visitors, his mail, and his daily actions were watched.
