Scientific revolution

By raspberrylover07
  • 1543

    Introduction

    Introduction
    The scientific revolution was the start of the modern science during the early modern period, when developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology and chemistry transformed views of society and nature. The scientific revolution began in Europe towards the end of the Renaissance period and continued through the late 18th century, influencing the intellectual social movement known as the Enlightenment.
  • 1543

    1543

    On The Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres was dedicated to Pope Paul III, to protect him from vilification. In the book Copernicus wrote about how the earth revolves around sun, the heliocentric theory, not the other way around like it was believed. This book would later be banned.
  • 1564

    Galileo Galilei

    Galileo Galilei
    Born: Feb. 15. 1564, Pisa, Italy
    Died: January 8, 1642, Arcetri, near Florence
    Italian natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician. He made basic contributions, to the science of motion, astronomy, a strength of materials, and the development of the scientific method. His book of nature that was written in the language of mathematics has changed the natural philosophy from a verbal, qualitative account to a mathematical one.
  • 1571

    Johannes Kepler

    Johannes Kepler
    Born: December 27th, 1571
    Died: November 15, 1630,
    He was a astronomer, who studied about the three major laws of planetary motion. The studies show that the planets move in elliptical orbits with the Sun at one focus; the time necessary to traverse an arc of a planetary orbit and there is an exact relationship between the squares of the planets’ periodic times and the cubes of the radii of their orbits. Astronomia nova was one of the books that he wrote.

  • 1609

    1609
    Galileo created a telescope that could magnify objects twenty times. With this telescope, he was able to look at the moon, discover the four satellites of Jupiter, observe a supernova, verify the phases of Venus, and discover sunspots. His discoveries proved the Copernican system which states that the earth and other planets revolve around the sun.

  • 1609

    1609
    Astronomia Nova is published by John Kepler as a result of his ten year study of the motion of Mars. It also contains his first two laws of planetary motion:
    1. The planets move in elliptical orbits with the sun at the center focus.
    2. The speed of the planet changes at each moment so, that the time between any two positions is always proportional to the area that is swept out on the orbit between these positions.

  • 1610

    1610
    This was the first book that was published about observations made through a telescope. Some of those observations were Galilean moons. Unlike the Christian belief, he saw the moon was not smooth. He also realized that there was an immense amount of stars that was invisible to human’s eyes. He also saw there was a difference between stars and planets when seen from earth.

  • Issac Newton

    Issac Newton
    Born: Jan. 04. 1643, Woolsthorpe Manor, United Kingdom
    Died: March. 31. 1727, Kensington, London, United Kingdom.
    Job: astronomer and mathematician. He was the culminating figure of the 17th century. In optics, his discovery of the composition of white light incorporate the phenomena of colors into the science of light and laid the foundation for modern physical optics. In mechanics, his three laws of motion, the basic principles of modern physics, resulted in the law of universal gravitation.

  • 1650

    Enabled new scientists to communicate their ideas to each other and to disseminate them to a wider, literate public. The French Royal Academy of Sciences arose during the 1650s. In 1666, Louis XIV formally recognized the group. The French Academy received abundant state support and remained under government control, unlike the English Royal Society which received little government encouragement.

  • 1687

    1687
    Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica is published by Newton. The book states his laws of motion, also his law of universal gravity. In his book, Newton's mathematical theory of motion under centripetal forces and the ones stated by Galileo and Huygens are different because Newton's was generic. Galileo and Huygen's focused on it only one-time type of force, while Newton's covers not only forces that vary in one way but forces that way in other ways.