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1537
Andreas Vesalius
he was very interested in human bones and he changed what people thought of them by getting the bones from nearby Paris cemetery to dissect them. -
1543
Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus was a polish astronomer. He wrote the book called on the revolution of celestial spheres. This Book was what started the beginning of the scientific revolution. -
1558
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler researched to prove that planets orbited in a perfect circular shape. After careful observation, he found that the planets actually orbited in an elliptical or oval shape. He proved Copernicus was right. -
1572
Tycho Brahe
Tycho Brahe was a danish astronomer. He was known for his accurate records. He was also a man who observed everything carefully. He put lots and lots of time into his work and found 750 stars and recorded their positions. -
1578
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon was a English Philosopher. He was also a statesmen, jurist, and author. He was also an Attorney General and held the position of Lord Chancellor of England. He pursued science and his experiments in a systematic fashion. He changed how people did things and gave order to complicated things . -
1581
Galileo
Galileo was undoubtedly one of the greatest scientists of the scientific revolution. He was the first person to study the sky with a telescope. He discovered craters and mountains on the moon. He also found the moons that orbited Jupiter. He was also interested in how falling objects behaved, so he studied mechanics. Galileo also conducted experiments, wrote theories, and observed. Along with all his achievements, he even invented the thermometer. -
Zacharias Janssen
Zacharias Janssen was a Dutch lens-maker. He was the first to invent the simple microscope. However, this was not intended for scientific use. -
William Harvey
William Harvey was an English physician who studied the circulation of blood thought the body. he described how blood moved through the veins and arteries. Again he changed how people saw them self's and gave them a better understanding of their body. -
Rene Descartes
In 1644 Rene Descartes wrote and published Principles of Philosophy, this changed how people saw the human body and what people thought was in them because before they was no surgery. -
Evangelista Torricelli
Evangelista Torricelli was a Italian scientist. He was a physicist and mathematician. One of his important achievements was the invention of the barometer. he helped people to predict the weather with the barometer changing weather predictions. -
Antoni Van Leeuwenhook
Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek was a Dutch scientist. He was the first to use the microscope for scientific purposes he put some water from a pond under the microscope. As he looked, he found tiny plants and animals. This changed peoples perspective of the things around them because it made them think about the tiny things all around them all the time. -
Robert Boyle
Robert Boyle created the air pump and studied phewnmatics that revolutionized how people cleaned because it helped to create the vacuum. -
Robert Hooke
English scientist who discovered the cellular structure of cork. this changed how things were built like structure. -
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton was a English Scientist. He published the book called Principia Mathmetica. He simplified the studies of other scientists. He reviewed practically everything other scientists studied. He made theories, which were proven so many times that they called them laws. He had 4 of these laws. The first was the law of gravity. The other three were the laws of physics and motion. He also invented calculus. He changed how people thought of the world and how people did things because of the law -
David Hume
Scottish philosopher whose sceptical philosophy restricted human knowledge to that which can be perceived by the senses
