Scientific Revolution

By ellisonj2wchs
  • Feb 21, 1451

    Christopher Columbus

    Christopher Columbus (d.1506) is born as is Amerigo Vespucci (d. 1512), explorers.
  • Feb 21, 1522

    Ferdinand Magellan

    Ferdinand Magellan famously completes the first circumnavigation of the globe.
  • Feb 21, 1530

    Girolamo Fracastoro

    Girolamo Fracastoro (1475-1553) provides one of the first descriptions of a new disease in a work entitled Syphilis, or the French Disease. As an aside, the Italians called it the French disease, the French called it Italian disease.
  • Feb 21, 1531

    Juan Luis Vives

    Juan Luis Vives (1492-1540) in his On the Disciplines argues for the reform of education and a more receptive approach to skills traditionally associated with the craft and trade traditions.
  • Feb 21, 1532

    Peter Apian

    Peter Apian (1495-1552) and Fracastoro observe that the tail of the comet his year, later known as Halley's Comet, pointed away from the sun, a detail also recognized by Regiomontanus.
  • Feb 21, 1538

    Girolamo Fracastoro

    Girolamo Fracastoro continued to explore cosmological and technical alternatives to Ptolemy in his Homocentrica, again employing nested concentric spheres rather than deferents and epicycles associated with Ptolemy's Almagest.
  • Feb 21, 1540

    Georg Joachim Rheticus

    -- Georg Joachim Rheticus (1514-1574), a friend of Copernicus and the presumed author, provides an account of the heliocentric hypothesis in his Narratio prima (First Account).
  • Feb 21, 1561

    Gabriele Falloppio (1523-1562) announces his discovery of the fallopian tubes in his Anatomical Observations.

    Gabriele Falloppio (1523-1562) announces his discovery of the fallopian tubes in his Anatomical Observations.
  • Feb 21, 1564

    Galileo Galilei

    Galileo Galilei born at Pisa, Italy, February 16; Michelangelo Buonarroti dies at Florence, 18 February; William Shakespeare born in England, 23 April.
  • Feb 21, 1582

    Pope Gregory XIII

    Pope Gregory XIII suggested reform of the Julian calendar, thus leading much of Catholic Europe away from the Julian (Old Style) calendar to the Gregorian (New Style).