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Sep 2, 1200
Roger Bacon, a philosopher
Before the Renaissance, Roger Bacon was an english philosopher and scientist of 1200. He also was one of the first people to favor scientific experimentation over religious beliefs and ancient ones. He mainly practiced Alchemy -
Sep 20, 1500
The Beginning of the Renaissance
While the Renaissance brought new ideas and thoughts, people finally begun to question old ideas and beliefs. Now, instead of religion, people relied on mathematics and experiments to understand new mysteries, and no longer content willing to describe the world using religious, or magic, or ancient writers ideas. -
Sep 20, 1500
Three Areas of Study
The three new areas of study were called Astronomy, study of the stars, planets, and other sky bodies, Physics, changes in property and matter, and Anatomy, studying the structure of the human body. Several scientists of Europe helped these sciences expand and grow -
Sep 21, 1500
Becoming Efficient Scientists
Early scientists of the early to middle 1500's learned how to form conclusions of their observations using their own senses. Three new tools could also be found and used, known as scientific instruments, math, and experiments. This new approach marked the beginnings of the Scientific Revolution. Scientists also repeated their experiments and drew the conclusions. This is known as the scientific method. -
Sep 20, 1543
Nicolaus Copernicus
In A.D 100's, an astronomer by the name of Ptolemy stated the earth was the center of the universe, also known as the geocentric theory. By the early 1500's, Copernicus questioned the geocentric theory, and argued that the sun was the center of the universe, the heliocentric theory. When his book about it came out, it seemed to deny peoples senses. People couldn't feel the earth moving -
Sep 23, 1543
Andreas Vesalius
After listening and watching Leonardo Da Vinci working, Andreas Vesalius, a Flemish scientist, went towards the study of anatomy, refusing to look at ancient descriptions of the human body 400 years earlier, wanting to do his own studies. In his book, On the Fabric of the Human Body, the illustrations he did were amazingly detailed and helped his readers gain visual understanding of the complicated body -
Sep 23, 1544
William Harvey
William Harvey was an english physician and made equally important contributions as Andreas Vesalius did. Harvey studied blood circulation, describing how the blood moved through the veins and arteries. He also observed the body's most important muscle, the heart. -
Johannes Kepler
Being a brilliant mathematician who used models, observation, and mathmatics, Kepler used that to test Copernicus's heliocentric theory. Even though some of Copernicus's ideas were incorrect, slowing Kepler down slightly, he eventually proved Copernicus right. He published his laws of planetary motion during 1609, but Galileo helped him provide clear evidence about the theory -
Francis Bacon
An english philosopher and scientist, living around the same time as Descartes, and believing similarly. Bacon believed that scientific theory's could be developed only through observation, and nothing could be trusted unless proven by repeated experiments, and he published a book in 1620, that outlined this new system of knowledge. -
Galileo Galilei
Galileo was a Italian philosopher and famous astronomer, and played a major role in the scientific revolution. He created his own device, known as a telescope, and began to study the heavens, observing the moon, Saturn's rings, and sun spots. Even moons circling Jupiter.
Galileo published his findings in 1632, causing an uproar. Many people refused to believe Galileo and his findings, still believing the geocentric theory, and saying that it contradicted the bible. -
Rene Descartes
A french phiolsopher and mathmatician, and also a leader of the scientific revolution. His ideas leading to great advances in maths, sciences, and phiolosphy.
Descartes felt no assumptions be accepted without question, and in his book, Discourse on Method, he said that all assumptions had to be on the basis of known facts.
"I think, therefore I am." Descartes states, believing because he can think, his existence is proven. -
Triumph of the New Science
The new discoveries of the Scientific Revolution spread across Europe. New scientific orders spread knowledge of the developments of the Revolution. Schools and societies appeared in Rome, England, and France to show their love of Science. The press helped many scientists, and showed others reading about the scientific studies being done. -
Isaac Newton
In 1687, Newton published a book with the works of Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler. After experimenting, Newton realized that the force that holds all the planets together was the same that caused objects to fall to earth. With a single motion, Newton tied together the movement of all things in space and Earth. -
Other Scientific Discoveries
Throughout 1500 and 1600, scientific discoveries were made throughout Europe. Meanwhile, Calculus was created by Isaac Newton and Gottfried Liebnitz, not working together.
Bacteria was discovered by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, using the microscope in the late 1500's
Other discoveries were the element, oxygen, by Joseph Priestley in 1774. Antione Lavoisier later named it.
Antoine Lavoisier also proved that fire was not an element in the late 1700's.
