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1 CE
The Very Beginning
Many people were convinced that science and other things had to be magic, there were some who even used "spells" and "magic formulas" to try to change one substance into another, like lead into gold. -
1200
Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon was an English philosopher and scientist from the 1200s. He was viewed as an important scholar of his time, and was one who had a strong passion for scientific experiments, him mainly focusing on alchemy. He soon took on the name Doctor Mirabilis, and was known as an amazing teacher. He was one who believed that stars in the sky could influence a person's life and would be a strong impact. He also relied on religious teachings and the work of many classical Greek and Roman thinkers. -
1201
Reactions
After Roger Bacon showed everyone his experiments, this caused everyone else to do science experiments and they tried to find ways to make science experiments easier and more reliable. -
1300
Renaissance
The spirit alone of the Renaissance was enough to encourage curiosity, investigation, discovery, and the knowledge of nature to everyday life, and many felt freer to ask questions about old ideas and other beliefs. -
1500
Astronomy
A scientist named Nicolaus Copernicus started studying space through many studies of astronomy. Until this time, many people believed in a geocentric theory that was said that the Earth was the center of the universe. By Nicolaus using logic and science and common sense, he discovered that the sun was actually the center of Earth. -
1500
New Tools/Resources
In early 1500's, many were still observing how certain things had happened and they were not accepting answers that they had including magic and religion in, yet they kept trying to improve how they did experiments, which soon lead to the inventions of new tools like the pump, barometer, microscope, telescope, and thermometer. As time when on, these tools were still trying to be improved. -
1543
William Harvey
Harvey was an English physician who studied the circulation of blood. He described how blood moved through the veins and arteries, and observed the working of the heart. -
1543
Andreas Vesalius
Vesalius was a Flemish scientist who used da Vinci's words to pioneer the study of astronomy. He refused to accept descriptions of human muscles and tissues that were written by Galen 1,400 years earlier, so he did his own studies to see how the human body was constructed. -
1543
Copernicus
In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus published his theory that the Earth spun on an axis, and revolved around the sun, along with the other planets, in full detail, in his famous On the Revolutions of Celestial Bodies. This was extremely controvertial, because it went against the established thought that the Earth was the center of the Universe, and further angered people, because it implied that we were not as special as we once thought; that we were just one of many planets in the Solar System. -
Kepler and Galileo
Many scientists continued to explore the heliocentric theory and as a lot of technology improved, Kepler and Galileo used telescopes to prove that the heliocentric theory was true. -
René Descartes
Descartes was a French philosopher and mathematician. His ideas led to great advances in mathematics, sciences, and philosophy. He also felt that no assumptions should be accepted without question, and developed a philosophy based on his own reason. -
Isaac Newton
He published a book in 1687 that built upon the ideas that Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler had. Those ideas were already proved, and those ideas were that the planets orbited around the sun. He realized that the force that makes objects on earth fall and the reason the planets orbit were the same. The force was gravity.
