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Jan 1, 1214
Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon was born in 1214 and died in 1292. He was one of the first modern scientist. He was also a teacher who was credited with originating the "scientific method." Bacon also proved some of the experiments in Aristotole's writing to be false. More information -
Jan 1, 1473
Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus was born in 1473 and died in 1543. He was a mathematician and astronomer that proposed the sun was stationary in the center of the universe, and the earth revolved around it. He also determined that the Earth rotates daily on its axis. More information -
Jan 1, 1513
Andreas Vesalius
Andreas Vesalius was born in 1513, and died on October 15, 1564. He mad a lot of achieements in the medical field that were greatly appreciated due to the limited amout of resources at the time. Vesalius assembled the first human skelton from cadavers and was a "pioneer" in human dissection. He also was famous for the publishing two books that were one of the greatest contributions to the medical sciences field. <a href='http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/month/sep2002.htm' >More information -
Mar 31, 1519
Rene Descartes
Rene Descartes was born on March 31, 1596. He was a great philosophical writer. In 1637, he published geometry, which at the time was better known as Cartesian geometry. Rene Descartes died on Feburary 11,1650. More information -
Jan 22, 1561
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon was born on January 22, 1561.He was an English philosopher, scientist, and statesman who had many contributes to the sciece field in his life time. Bacon established the scientific worldview. His most famous words were "Knowledge in Power," and he got those words because he believed that if you understood science you could give man power over nature. He died on April 9, 1626. More Information -
Feb 15, 1564
Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa, Italy on Feburary 15, 1564, and he died on January 8, 1642. He was an Italian physicist and astronomer. Galilei was the first person to look at the moon through a telescope. After doing that, he made his first astronomy discovery. He used his telescope again to discover four of Jupiter's moons. His observations strengthened belief in Copernicus' theory. More information -
Jan 1, 1571
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler was born in 1571 and died in 1630. He is an important scientist in the field of astronomy, and the founder of "celestial mechanics." He also made important leads in the fields of optics, calculus, and geometry. Keepler also has three laws about the orbit of the planet and the suns ellipse. More information -
Apr 1, 1578
William Harvey
William Harvey was born on April 1,1578, and died on June 3, 1657. He was the first person to accurately describe how blood was pumped around the body by the heart. He was also the first to suggest that humans and other mammals reproduced via the fertilisation of an egg by sperm. More information -
Robert Boyle
Was born on January 25, 1627. In 1644 he was very interested in science and built his own laboratory. In 1655, he put together his most famous piece of experimental equipment, the vacuum chamber or air-pump. He was the first prominent scientist to perform controlled experiments and publish his work with details. He died on December 30, 1691. More Information -
Isaac Newton
Issac Newton was born in 1643, and he died in 1727. He was the first one to develop the math we know today as calculus. By early 1666, he had completed his early work on his three laws of motion. He also completed work on universal gravitation, diffraction of light, centrifugal force, centripetal force, inverse-square law, bodies in motion, and the variations in tides due to gravity. More information
