The Scientific Revolution

Philosophers

Jan 1, 1200

Philosophers believed many of natural events proposed. They took trust on religious teachings and the works of Roman and Greek thinkers to explain these mysterious events.

Alchemy

Jan 1, 1200

The start of the scientific revolution was when Alchemists would be believed to use spells and magic formulas in order to transform a substance into another substance.

Astronomy

Jan 1, 1200

Astrologers believed that human life was influenced by the position of the stars in the sky.

Roger Bacon

Feb 1, 1200

Roger Bacon was a English philosopher and one of the earliest scientist to study these events and a system of scientific experimentation. He was a scientist set on finding the truth rather than faithful acceptance and religious and ancient beliefs.

Galileo Galilei

Sep 21, 1500

Galileo built his own device called the telescope. He was able to examine exactly how the universe worked. He was able to provide evidence for Kepler and was also able argue that not every heavenly body revolves around the Earth. He drew sketches of what he observed. He published his discoveries in 1632 but many people did not agree with his discoveries. Galileo also made an great discovery stating all objects have the same fall rate which formed the base of study of objects in motion.

New Study of Nature

Sep 21, 1500

Scientists started ti examine the world around them more and more, they started to observe things that did not apply with traditional beliefs. New tools were starting to be used such as instruments, experiments, and mathematics. This new method marked the start of the scientific revolution.

Scientific Method

Sep 21, 1500

The scientific method involved a new approach to learning. Scientists used mathematics to check and apply measurements and began to repeat experiments to get accurate results. New instruments that were helping to conduct these experiments and to be able to measure and observe were the barometer, the microscope, the telescope, the air pump, and the thermometer.

Nicolaus Copernicus

Sep 21, 1500

Copernicus was a polish scientist that revolved around the Ptolemy theory and how the earth was the center of the universe. He abandoned Ptolemy's geocentric theory and stated how the sun was the center of the universe. He called this the heliocentric theory.

Johannes Kepler

Sep 21, 1500

Kepler and Galileo were scientists who helped Copernicus confirm the new understanding of the universe. Johannes Kepler who was a German astronomer was a brilliant mathematician who used observations, models, and mathematics to test Copernicus's theory. He was able to prove the theory correct and published his laws of planetary motion in 1609. But he needed Galileo Galilei to prove with evidence how the earth moves around the sun.

Andreas Vesalius

Sep 23, 1500

Andreas Vesalius was a 1543 Flemish scientist who introduced the study of anatomy. Vesalius was focused on his own studies to figure out how the human body was constructed. Vesalius published his own book called "On the Fabric of the Human Body." The book helped readers be able to see exactly how the human body was formed.

William Harvey

Sep 23, 1500

William Harvey was a English physician who was also a big help in Vesalius' work. Harvey studied how blood moved through arteries and veins, or the circulation of blood. He also did studies and observed one of the most important muscles of the body, the heart.

René Descartes

Sep 23, 1600

Descartes was a philosopher and mathematician and was a leader in the scientific revolution. He was important to leading advances in sciences, mathematics, and philosophy. One of his philosophies,"Discourse on Method," he said that no assumptions should be accepted without proven facts and there should be no risk. Descartes had studies in geometry, algebra, the astronomy, the scientific method, and physical sciences. He also created a mathematical description called law of refraction.

Francis Bacon

Sep 23, 1600

Francis Bacon was a English philosopher and scientist. He believed that no assumption could be trusted without proof from repeated experiments. He also believed that truths that could be demonstrated historically could be trusted rather than reasoning. He published a book called "Novum Organum" in 1620 showing this new knowledge.

Isaac Newton

Sep 23, 1600

Issac Newton was an English scientist who was a big impact on the scientific revolution and basically changed how people viewed the world. He proposed many laws such as the law of universal gravitation, and also the law of motion.

Triumph of the New Science

Sep 23, 1600

During the Scientific Revolution, so much had been learned and discovered that scientists believed that the scientific method gave a map that could be followed for finding knowledge. This new science brought knowledge of the developments of the Scientific Revolution. Most of the new scientific societies published journals. Scientific studies could know be read from scientists all around the world.

Other Scientific Discoveries

Sep 23, 1700

During the 1500's and 1600's many scientific discoveries had been made throughout Europe. The understanding of human knowledge had increased drastically and a short period of time due to all the discoveries made by many scientists. The speed of discover and the wild spread and exchange made a big impact on the scientific revolution. This lead to rise of scientific societies, and other communications improvements which were results from the printing press.