The scientific revolution

By Hanny1999

  • 1451 -- Christopher Columbus

    1451 -- Christopher Columbus (d.1506) is born as is Amerigo Vespucci (d. 1512), explorers.

  • 1472 -- Georg Peurbach's New Theory of the Planets

  • 1462 -- One of the major publications of Renaissance

    1462 -- One of the major publications of Renaissance natural philosophy, the Epitome of Ptolemy's Almagest appears; the authors, Georg Peurbach (1423-1461) and Johannes Regiomontanus (1436-1476), symbolize a shift from reverence for Ptolemy and antiquity to respect coupled with confident innovation.

  • 1469 -- Publication of the highly influential Corpus

  • 1473 -- Nicolas Copernicus

  • 1486 -- The Malleus Malificarum (The Hammer of the Witches)

  • 1494 -- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494)

  • 1514 -- The initial appearance of the heliocentric theory

  • 1518 -- The London College of Physicians

  • 1522 -- Ferdinand Magellan famously completes

  • 1530 -- Girolamo Fracastoro (1475-1553)

  • 1530-1536 -- Publication of Portraits of Living Plants

  • 1531 -- Juan Luis Vives

  • 1532 -- Peter Apian (1495-1552)

  • 1533 -- As the Hermetic tradition unfolded