The Scientific Revolution: Making Knowledge in the Early Modern World

  • Period: 384 BCE to 322 BCE

    Aristotle

    Greek philosopher and polymath
  • Period: 100 to 170

    Claudius Ptolemy

    Egypitan mathematrician, astronomer, astrologer, and geographer
  • Period: 129 to 216

    Galen

    Greek physician, surgeon, and philsopher
  • Period: 1452 to 1517

    Leonardo da Vinci

    Italian polymath
  • Period: 1463 to 1494

    Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

    italian philosopher
  • Period: 1473 to 1543

    Nicolaus Copernius

    Italian mathematician and astronomer
  • Period: 1493 to 1541

    Paracelsus

    Swiss physician, alchemist, lay theologian, and philosopher
  • Period: 1501 to 1566

    Leonhart Fuchs

    German physician and botanist
  • Period: 1514 to 1564

    Andreas Vesalius

    Beligian anaomist and physician
  • Period: 1537 to

    Hieronymous Fabricius

    Italian Hieronymous Fabricius
  • Period: 1538 to

    Giovanni Battista Della Porta

    Italian scientist and magi
  • Period: 1546 to

    Tycho Brache

    Danish astronomer and alchemist
  • Period: 1548 to

    Giordano Bruno

    Italian philsopher, mathematician, poet, cosmological theorists, and alchemist
  • Period: 1561 to

    Francis Bacon

    English philsopher and statesman
  • Period: 1564 to

    Galileo Galilei

    Italian natural philsopher, astronomer, and mathematician
  • Period: 1568 to

    T. Campanella

    Italian Dominican friar, philsopher, theologica, astrologer, and poet
  • Period: 1571 to

    Johannes Kepler

    German astronomer, methematician, astrologer, and naturla philosopher
  • Period: 1578 to

    William Harvey

    English physician
  • Period: 1580 to

    Jan Baptist van Helmont

    Belgium chemist, physioloist, and physican
  • Period: to

    Rene Descartes

    French philosopher, scientist, and mathematician
  • Period: to

    Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

    German mathematician, philsopher, scientist, and diplomat
  • Period: to

    Robert Boyle

    Ango-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, alchemist, and inventor
  • Period: to

    Antonie van Leenwenhoek

    Dutch microbiologist and microscopist
  • Period: to

    Robert Hooke

    English scientist, naturla philosopher, and architect
  • Period: to

    Issac Newton

    English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologican, and author