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1200
Roger Bacon
Roger bacon was an English Philosopher and scientist during the 1200's. He studied at Oxford and Paris, he was seen as a leading scholar of his time, and he was a Franciscan Monk. Bacon was one of the earliest people to favor system of scientific experimentation, instead of "faithful acceptance of religious ideas and ancient beliefs." This is significant because the way that he though had changed the way of the world nowadays. He helped to create the things that we use now to explore everything. -
1500
Early Scientists Question Ancient Beliefs
The early scientists of the early 1500's began to question ancient beliefs, after observing things that did not agree with traditional explanations. They had used three new tools: scientific instruments, mathematics, and experiments.Their new approaches to study and Knowledge started the beginnings of the Scientific Revolution. If we didn't go against the ancient beliefs, we wouldn't have so many things we have now. We wouldn't know that the sun is the center of the universe, and not the earth -
1500
Newly Invented Instruments
The ability to operate experiments was key for this new approach to learning, so scientist decided to create new tools to help them. They made the barometer, the microscope, the telescope,the air pump, and the thermometer.They created these tools to help them to observe and measure, and that is exactly what they did. This changed our history because we didn't have those for a very long time, but since the people invented them, people use them on a daily basis, and its their job to use them even! -
1500
Nicolaus Copernicus
Copernicus was a Polish scientist who believed that the sun was the center of the universe, this was called the heliocentric theory. He was one of the only people who believed it then, because everyone else believed that the earth was the center of the universe, the geocentric theory. This is very important in the 21 century because if he hadn't had that theory, then the world wouldn't be what it is now. -
1543
Andreas Vesalius
Andreas Vesalius, Flemish scientist, refused to accept the descriptions that Galen had written 1,400 years earlier. He had studied in the medical school of the University of Paris, where he spent a lot of his Tim,e studying human bones. Of course, he's not going to agree with something written 1,400 year before, so he decided to write his own 7 volume book, On The Fabric Of The Human Body. People say that the illustrations of the human body were very detailed for the time. -
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler was a brilliant mathematician who use models, observations, and mathematics to test Copernicus's heliocentric theory. Kepler was also a German astronomer who discovered three major laws of planetary motion. He published these laws in 1609, but he had to have the help of the Italian scientist, Galileo Galilei. Along with this accomplishment he also provided a new and correct account of how vision occurs, wrote a novel, and provided a new theoretical foundation for astrology. -
The Triumph of New Science
So much had been learned during this time that scientists believed that the scientific method offered a map that could be easily followed in the search for knowledge. Schools opened up in Rome, England, and France just with a science based learning. Most of the new scientific societies published journals that they created by the printing press, and scientists everywhere could read all about the scientific studies that happened in Europe. -
Other Scientific Discoveries
Many discoveries were made throughout Europe in the 1500's-1600's. German Gottfried Liebnitz and the English Isaac Newton created calculus and a new Wing in mathematics. Dutch scientist Leeuwenhoek use microscopes that were invented in the 1500's, he used them to discover bacteria which, at the time, he called, animalcules. He then wrote a whole range of tune life forms nerver before seen by the human eye. -
Galileo Galilei
Galileo was a Italian scientist, who helped to confirm Copernicus's heliocentric theory to be true. Galileo did more than just that, he heard of this device made by a Dutch that made distance object appear to larger. He decided that he would build his own, and then began to "study the heavens". This helped prove Copernicus's theory to be true because he was now able to see that the earth wasn't the center of the universe but that the sun was. -
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon, English philosopher and scientist, lived around the same time as Descartes. He believed that all scientific theories could be developed only through observations. He had once said that no assumptions can be made or trusted unless it could be proven by a scientific experiment. He relied on truth that you could physically prove, instead of thinking or reasoning. He had published a book in 160 called, Novum Organum, it represented his new knowledge. -
René Descartes
Descartes was a French philosopher and a mathematician and he was the leader of the scientific revolution. Descartes's ideas lead to great advances in both mathematics, science, and philosophy. He believed that no assumptions should be accepted without question, Descartes said that all assumptions had to be proven on the basis of known facts, he believed that his own existence was proven because of that fact that he could think, "I think therefore I am." -
Robert Boyle
Robert Boyle, an English-Irish scientist who had helped to pioneer the modern science of chemistry. In 1662, Boyle showed that temperature and pressure affect the space that any gas occupies. Boyle found that pressure multiplied by volume is a constant. In other words, when you raise the pressure on a gas, the gas’s volume recedes in a predictable way. -
Isaac Newton
English scientist, Isaac Newton, published a book building on the work of Copernicus,Galileo, and Kepler. Many experiments helped to prove that the force that holds the planets in orbit and the force that causes the objects to fall to earth, are the same thing. He then proposed the law of universal gravitation, with says that all bodies attract to each other, and the force of the attraction can be measured. Newton explained the laws of motion and made what we now use and call,the laws of motion. -
Antoine Lavoisier
Lavoisier was a French scientist, and before him people used to believe that fire was an element. He proved to them that fire resulted when a substance rapidly commanded with oxygen. He had also shown that steam miss with the air and becomes invisible, in this way, he proved that matter can change form, but can also never be destroyed or created. This is known as the law of conservation matter and it is one of the most important principles in the study of chemistry. -
Joseph Priestley
Priestley was an English Chemist who discovered the element of oxygen. He didn't name it, Lavoisier did, but they had made their discoveries about it in the late 1700's. In a series of experiments peaking in 1774, Priestley found that air is not an element, but a mixture f gases. Among them was the colorless and highly reactive gas he called "dephlogisticated air," And Lavoisier gave that the name of oxygen.
