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The Beginning
People believed that magic was the explanation to scientific "miracles" was magic. -
1200
Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon was a philosopher who was not happy believing that magic was the answer to everything. He was the first person to discover that science is what causes things and he proved this by doing science experiments. This was important because up until this point, people did not understand what science was or how it worked. Bacon showed everyone what science was and this was the beginning of people trying to figure out science and it led to many experiments and discoveries. -
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. Bacon's discovery started curiosity that caused many discoveries and new ways of doing things. -
1500
New Tools
In the early 1500s, scientist were still observing how things happened and they were not accepting the answers that they had including magic and religion. Scientists continued to try to improve how they did experiments and this led to the invention of many new scientific tools including the air pump, barometer, microscope, telescope, and thermometer. They also started to repeat multiple trials to improve the credibility and prevent mistrials. These tools were always being improved to be better. -
1500
Astronomy
A scientist named Nicolaus Copernicus started studying space through the study of astronomy. Until this time period, everyone believed in a geocentric theory that believes that the Earth is the center of the universe. By using science and logic. Copernicus discovered the heliocentric theory that the sun was actually the center. -
1500
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek
In the late 1500's, he used the microscope to study bacteria that people could not see with their eyes. This was not a big discovery at the time because of all the other big discoveries but it is important still. People are still studying bacteria and micro-organisms under microscopes to get a better understanding of what Leeuwenhoek discovered. -
1543
Andreas Vesalius
Vesalius researched the human body and anatomy. He drew his pictures and he did not have as much focus on the writing portion. When people saw his illustrations, they were helpful and people got a deeper understanding of the body. This has set the foundation for modern since because now all scientists draw diagrams. -
1543
William Harvey
William Harvey was an English physician. He used experiments to study the circulation of blood. He explained how blood moved through arteries and veins. He also spent a lot of time studying the heart. He published this with Vesalius's findings. This went good with it because Vesalius wrote about the body and had many illustrations while Harvey was able to explain how all of it worked. -
Kepler and Galileo
Many scientists continued to explore the heliocentric theory and as technology improved, Kepler and Galileo used the telescopes to prove that it is true. -
Publicizing their Findings
Kepler and Galileo made many discoveries that changed people's views and many of them were hard for people to believe when they first saw it. In 1609, Kepler showed everyone his evidence proving the heliocentric theory to be correct. The evidence was good but still needed a little more to make it amazing. It still amazed many people. -
Publicizing the Findings
Kepler and Galileo made many discoveries that changed people's views and many of them were hard for people to believe when they first saw it. Galileo used a telescope that could see the craters on the moon and even the rings around Saturn. It could see farther than anything else people have used for science up until this point. He proved that the planets do not revolve around the Earth and many people were shocked and mad at his findings. -
Robert Boyle
Robert Boyle was an English-Irish scientist who helped make discoveries in chemistry. His experiments showed that pressure and temperature affect the space that a gas is in. This was not a major part of the renaissance but it was still important because not many people were studying chemistry at the time. -
Isaac Newton
Newton published a book in 1687 that built upon the ideas that Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler had. It had already been proved that the planets revolved around the sun and not the Earth. However, it was not yet explained why the planets move that way. He realized that the force that makes objects on Earth fall and the reason the planets orbit were the same. The force was gravity. This is still important today because gravity is still used for space travel and car seat belts. -
Antoine Lavoisier
Before Antoine Lavoisier, people thought that fire was an element. Lavoisier showed everyone that it was when substances rapidly mixed with oxygen. He helped show that matters can be changed but they can not be created or destroyed. This also ties in to the beginning of the renaissance when everyone believed in magic not science. Lavoisier showed that it was science, not magic or elements. -
Conclusion
When scientists decided to spend more time studying the world and the nature on the world, they found things that other people did not agree with and it often caused conflict. However, the new discoveries were very important to the advancement of science. The scientific revolution was the beginning of people trying to make discoveries and it sparked an interest in science for many people.
