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1143
Galen's book
In 1143, Galen wrote the first book on the human body. This gave people a new understanding of how their body was put together and how it worked. This change the way people thought about the human body, and gave them a clearer understanding of it. This is important to the scientific revolution because it inspire others in the future to learn more about the human body and how it worked. -
1200
Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon was an English philosopher and scientist. He was the first person to every have thoughts that not everything was magic. He conducted scientific experiments try to prove that magic wasn't how the world operated. This changed how people thought about the world because their religious beliefs were challenged. This is significant because it challenged the old ways of thinking and brought in facts instead of thinking everything was magic, we started to believe facts. -
1500
People started to question old beliefs
In the 1500s, people believed that everything we can explain now with science was all magic. People had strong religious beliefs that interfered with new scientific understandings. So, when some people started to question magic and wanted answer to life long questions using different approaches, these people were thought to be crazy because the idea of science explaining things was so crazy to most people. Science was changing the way people think but the world. -
1500
Copernicus's theory
In A.D. 100, people thought that the sun rotated around the earth because that's what they saw. But in 1500, Nicolaus Copernicus had a new theory that the earth rotated around the sun. This was the heliocentric theory. This challenged the way people thought about the world by making people think less about what they can see, and more about what makes logical sense. This was important because it made people to go outside of what they always knew and think about the situation in a different way. -
1543
Vesalius's books
In 1543, Andreas Vesalius published seven very detailed books on human anatomy. These books were to help the reader gain knowledge and understand how the human body worked. These books changed the way humans thought about their bodies, an gave them information they would not ave otherwise known. This is significant to the scientific revolution because it changed how people thought about their bodies, and lead to further understanding and new discoveries to be made in the future. -
Thermometer
The thermometer was created in 1593 and was used to measure temperature. This changed how people lived because it gave people the ability to know the temperature. It was very significant to the scientific revolution because it was one of the first machine developments that helped us learn more about science. This machine was a gate way for new ones to be created in the future. -
Microscope
In 1595, the first microscope was invented. This was a very significant step in the scientific revolution because we were able to learn about things like bacteria that we would not have been able to know about without the microscope. This changed the way people lived because they were given more information about the world, and because it opened the door for countless more discoveries to be made. -
Descartes's discoveries
Descartes was a french philosopher and a mathematician. His ideas lead to advances in math, such as geometry and algebra. Advances in science such as light and reflections. And advances in philosophy. He connected sciences that hadn't been categorized previously. This affected how people thought about the world because it brought facts together and made sense of it all. This was significant to the scientific revolution because he made people think about the world in a new way. -
Kepler and Galileo
In 1609, Kepler and Galileo proved the heliocentric theory, which Copernicus came up with years before, was correct. They proved this correct with models, observations, and mathematics. This changed how people thought about the world because new studies were found that contradicted peoples old religious beliefs. This was important because people started to question how much sense religious beliefs made.This caused outburst between religion and scientific beliefs. -
Francis Bacon
Bacon published a book in 1620 outlining new knowledge. Bacon had that no theory was correct until proven correct by experiments. This changed how people thought about the world because it forced people to look at facts more. It impacted the scientific revolution because there were more experiments conducted and more discoveries were being made all the time. -
Telescope
In 1632, Kepler and Galileo created the telescope. This was a huge contribution to the scientific revolution because they were then able to learn a lot more about the solar system. This changed how people thought about the world because they were given new data and models to contradict old beliefs. This was significant in the scientific revolution because it was a new piece of equipment that would continue to help make new discoveries. -
Evangelista Torricelli
In 143,Torricelli invented the barometer. The barometer is used to measure atmospheric pressure. This helps us to be able to predict the weather in the future. This changed how people live because it gave people he knowledge of what the weather was going to be like, and how the weather could be predicted based on facts. This was significant to the scientific revolution because people were no longer believing that magic controlled the weather, but were basing what they knew off facts. -
Robert Boyle
Robert Boyle was a chemist who was best known for Boyle's law. This law is a gas law that explains how the pressure of gas increases as the volume of a container decreases. This was important to the scientific revolution because it brought new understanding to chemistry and brought new discoveries in the future. This changed how people thought about the world by giving people new understanding of chemistry that they didn't have before Boyle's law. -
Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
Borelli was one of the first people to start thinking about and using mechanics. His 1680 work, "On the Motion of Animals", is recognized as the greatest early triumph of the application of mechanics to the human organism. This changed the way people thought about the world by bringing their basic knowledge of the human body and of mechanics to the next level. This was significant to the scientific revolution because it inspired people to learn and to create new understandings and discoveries. -
Sir Isaac Newton
Issac Newton made many discoveries that contributed to the scientific revolution. He discovered gravity and wrote a book on the finding of Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo. He forced people to look at the world by making lots of new scientific discoveries. This changed how people looked at the world. This was significant because he lead the way for any more discoveries to be made in the future.
