-
1543
Heliocentrism
Nicolas Copernicus has started to question if the Earth didn't move and if it was the center so he started to find out that the Sun was the center and the Earth and other planets were revolving over it. -
1573
Tycho Brahe
He observed planets -
Publishing of the Infinite Universe
Giordano Bruno published the infinite universe -
Wilbert Gilbert
He figured out that there were magnetic poles in the earth -
Galileo Galilei - Invention of the telescope
Galileo invented the telescope in 1609 after being inspired by a sailor's spyglass. He first went to observe Saturn, then slowly began to see some craters from the moon, and saw Jupiter's moon. -
Johannes Kepler
made 2 new planetary laws from Tycho Brane's theory -
William Harvey
William Harvey was a physician and he was the one that figured out how blood circulates a human body. He did this by observing the notion of the heart of a living animal. -
Rene Descartes - Scientific Method
Rene Descartes is a philosopher, a mathematician, and a scientist. He is very famous for publishing a book called the Scientific Method -
Robert Boyle
Robert Boyle is extremely well known for the method that he made called "Boyle's Law." The Boyle's law is the statement that the pressure and volume of a gas have an inverse relationship. -
Air pump
-
Invention of the microscope - Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek has invented the microscope but it looks different compared to the microscope we know today. It is much more simple but it was very advanced back in the late 1500's. -
Isaac Newton - Newton's Law of Gravity
Issac Newton is well known for his 3 laws of gravity. He was the one that found out about gravity and made his 3 laws. The law of Inertia, The law of force and acceleration {F=MA (Force = Mass x Acceleration)}, and the law of action and reaction. -
Edward Jenner - the small pox vaccine.
Edward Jenner was a scientist and was the one to find the vaccine for smallpox. He did it by taking fluid from a Cowpox blister and scratching it into an 8-year-old's skin. A few days later, he got completely healed from smallpox.