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Period: Jan 1, 1450 to
Scientific Revolution
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Period: Feb 2, 1473 to May 24, 1543
Nicolaus Copernicus
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Nov 8, 1543
Publishing of De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
This book was wroitten by Copernicus. It's a treatise on the heliocentric theory. This theory explains the the sun, not the earth, is the center of the universe. -
Nov 8, 1543
The University of Padua
This university during the early 16th Century was one of the first universities to start shifting away from the humanties to focus more on the science. This university was attended by many scientist including Niclaus Copernicus. -
Period: Dec 12, 1546 to
Tycho Brahe
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Period: Jan 22, 1561 to
Francis Bacon
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Period: Feb 15, 1564 to
Galileo Galilei
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Period: Dec 27, 1571 to
Johannes Kepler
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Nov 8, 1572
The discovery of Crab Nebula
Crab Nebula is a super-wind pulsar nebula that was discovered by Tycho Brahe. this was one of his many acheivemaents during the Scientific Revolution. -
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Renè Descartes
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Burning of Giordano Bruno
His burning at the stake made it absolutely clear that anyone trying to go farther in this quest for new information were going to feel the wrath of the Catholic Church during those times -
a Letter to the Grand Duchess of Tuscany
In this Letter, Gelileo boldly defends the exploration of science against religious oppostion. He wasn't scared f the people he was going to faec and mkore importantly he wasn't going to back down at all. -
Novum Organum
In this work, Bscon encourages his contemporaries to abandon their way of observation and open their minds to what he came up with. Bacon states the Scientific Method which is how almost every modern experiment is modeled after. -
Dialogue on Two World Systems
This book was the first to compare the Copernican system to the Ptolemaic system. Galileo very importanly makes the case at why Copernicus' system is right and offers a circular view instead of an elliptic view. -
Galileo gets banned by the Church
The Cathiokic Church deemed Galileo's work going against what is in the Holy Bile. They felt like his discoveries were not only uncovering things that could change the word biew forever, but his finding woulddisporve beliefs of Christ. -
The Discourse on Method
This a philisophical treatise created by Rene Descartes. His work influences hsi readers to abandon their previous notions and look at the world with a clear mind. So to figure out problems. He presents the Method of Deduction. -
Deduction Method
This method was created by Rene Descartes that explained how to gather a lot of information to come up with a concise and constructive answer to complex questions. -
Discourse on Two New Sciences published
This was Galileo's final book on Scientific theory. This book covered all of his discoveries in physics over the last thirty years and this was the last book before the Catholic church executed him for treason. -
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Isaac Newton
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Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
This book was created by Isaac Newton to state the law of gravity and to expand and other observations other scientist had made. He created three laws of motion. The laws of motion he creates are the basis of physics and allow other to expand on what he lays out in this treatise -
Opticks
This book was made by Isaac Newton.This book which is regarded as one of the greatest books in Scientific history, lays out the refraction of light and the basics on the optics.
