Scientific Revolution

  • 1200

    Roger Bacon

    Roger Bacon
    An English philosopher and scientist of the 1200s. He studied at oxford and Paris. He was viewed as the leading scholar of his time. He was one of the earliest to prefer the system of scientific experimentation. This was when this way of thinking started.
  • 1500

    The new study of nature

    Scientists started to observe things that did not match the traditional explanation, because of this early scientists started to question ancient beliefs. They used three new tools which were Scientific instruments, mathematics and experiments. This new approach to study and knowledge was the start of the scientific revolution. These new tools helped the investigation to be more accurate when observing things
  • 1543

    Nicolaus Copernicus

    Nicolaus Copernicus
    He discard the Geocentric theory. The theory that the sun and the other planets moved around Earth. He argued that the Sun was the center of the universe, the heliocentric theory. His theory explained many of the known facts about astronomy. This is an example of someone questioning the traditional explanation. The tools that were created before this helped them figure out how this theory was correct and be more accurate with the sun and stuff.
  • 1543

    Andreas Vesalius

    Andreas Vesalius
    Vesalius refused to accept descriptions of human muscles and tissues written by Galen 400 years earlier. So he did his own studies to see how the body was constructed. He published a seven volume book called on the Fabric of the human body. It helped readers gain a visual understanding of the many complicated systems of the body and how they work together.This is an example of questioning the traditional explanation and using sciences as explanation instead.
  • William Harvey

    William Harvey
    He made important contributions to Vesalius's book. He focused on the circulation of blood and how blood moved through veins and arteries. He also observed the heart. This changed the way so that they were more accurate about what was inside the human body.
  • Johannes Kepler

    Johannes Kepler
    Copernicus did not have the instruments or the mathematics to prove his theory. But Johannes Kepler was a brilliant mathematician who was able to test Copernicus's theory. He found that some of the ideas which Copernicus based his theory on were wrong but Kepler was still able to prove the heliocentric theory correct. Kepler published his laws of planetary motion in 1609. This is an example of someone using science to prove the questioning right.
  • Francis Bacon

    Francis Bacon
    He said that no assumption could be trusted unless it could be proven by repeatable experiments. He relied on truths that could be demonstrated physically, not through deductive thinking. In 1620 he published a book that outlined hi new system of knowledge.
  • Galileo Galilie

    Galileo Galilie
    Galileo improved the telescope. He was able to see things no one had ever seen before. Using these observations he argued that not every planet/moon revolves around Earth. When he published his work in 1632 it caused an uproar. Many scholars who still believed the geocentric theory refused to accept Galileo's findings. Some said that his theory contradicted the bible, and that the telescope was an invention of the devil. This is an example of people not wanting to except change.
  • Descartes

    Descartes
    As a philosopher and mathematician he had ideas that lead to great advances in mathematics.He believed that no assumptions should be made without reason. For example he thought that he existed because he could think, He wrote "I think, Therefor I am".
    This is an example of people continuing to use science as explanation.
  • The new science

    These new discoveries stared to effect all of europe. Schools and societies devoted to science appeared in Rome, England and France.
  • Robert Boyle

    Robert Boyle
    He helped pioneer the modern science of chemistry. In 1662 Boyle showed that temperature and pressure affect the space that a gas occupies. With what Boyle found out, they were able to use this to be more accurate and learn more about science.
  • Leewenhoek

    Leeuwenhoek used the microscope to discover bacteria. He called them animalcules. This was very helpful to the world. This changed, making it easier for people to determine if someone had a disease and get help.The significance of the event on history was, great to show the doctors what it looked like and what it did.
  • Issac Newton

    Issac Newton
    He noticed that Copernicus, Kepler and galileo's work showed how all the planets including earth revolved around the sun, but not why. So after many experiments he Proposed the law of universal gravitation, which states that all bodies of mass are attracted to each other. He also found that this force can be measured. Newton als explained the laws of motion and developed the mathematical means of measuring motion. This is an example of someone using science to explain science.
  • The renaissance

    The renaissance
    Encouraged curiosity, investigation, discovery and the practical application of the knowledge of nature to every day life.
  • Antoine Lavoisier

    Antoine Lavoisier
    He showed that fire is a result of rapidly combined oxygen. He also showed that steam mixes with the air and becomes invisible. In this way he proved that matter can change form but can't be destroyed or created.
  • Joseph Preistley

    Joseph Preistley
    Discovered element of oxygen