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Scientific Revolution

  • Dec 11, 1539

    First Human Dissection

    First Human Dissection
    Andress Vesalius dissected an excuted criminal's body. However, it was illegal in that era, thereofre, he dissected the bodies secretly. He published a book Working of the Human Body which helped becoming modern medical. Also it led background of future William Hervey
  • Dec 10, 1550

    Scientific Revolution has Begun

    Scientific Revolution has Begun
    The Science Revolution has begun in early 1500s. It started with insisting a new way of proving which was scientific method. This method devided into 5 sections. First, research, second, hypothesis, third, experiment, fourth, analysis, and finally, conclusion
  • Dec 10, 1553

    Heliocentric Theory

    Heliocentric Theory
    Copernicus proposed that the Sun, not the Earth, was the center of the Solar System. This heliocentric theory was an idea that against Catholic's geocentric theory which propose earth is the center of the solar system.
    Resource:http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/retrograde/copernican.html
  • Dec 11, 1572

    Supernova

    Supernova
    Tycho Brahe saw a new star on sky and he started call it supernova. He tend to make an methmathical expression of planet.After Brahe's death, his asistance Kepler published his result of Brahe's work
  • The Law of the Pendulum

     The Law of the Pendulum
    Galileo Galilei discovered The Law of the Pendulum at his age 20.Galileo noticed a lamp swinging overhead while he was in a cathedral. And he realized the period of each swing was exactly the same. He made regulate clocks with this The Law of the Pendulum.
  • Starry Messenger

    Starry Messenger
    The Starry Messenger is a phase of the Electronic History of Astronomy which was developed in te Wipple Musium. It deals with what Galileo Galilei has saw with his telescope. He discovered 4 moons of Jupiter and insisted Heliocentric Theory with it. . The Starry Messenger was a sensational success, and Galileo became well known throughout Europe.
  • Galileo's Trial

    Galileo's Trial
    Galileo got trials by the Catholic Church. Galileo insisted a heliocentric theory which was a revolution a that time period. After his trial, he puclished his book "Two New Sciences" in1638. He died 4 year after his book published.
  • First defined elements

    First defined elements
    Robert Boyle defined an element. He was th first chemist that defined an element. Also, for his significant work, he proved Botle's law which is showing how temperature, volume, and pressure affect gases.
  • Discovered Gravity

    Discovered Gravity
    Issac Newton, an English scientist, discovered gravity. He
    wondered why things fall to ground. He published a book The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. He explained universal gravitation in this book.
  • The Law of Conservation of Mass

    The Law of Conservation of Mass
    The Law of Conservation of Mass states that matter can be changed from one form into another, but the total amount of mass remains constant. This was experimented and proved by Antoine Lavoisier. He considered the properties of metals and then allowed him to measure not just the mass of the metal and the calx but also the mass of the air surrounding the reaction.