timeline

  • Feb 19, 1473

    Copernicus is born in Poland

  • 1521

    Francis Bacon born

  • 1543

    Publication of Copernicus' work on heliocentrism

  • Period: 1543 to

    Scientific Revolution

  • May 24, 1543

    Copernicous dies at 70 in East Prussia

  • 1564

    Galileo is born in Pisa.

  • Dec 27, 1571

    Johannes Kepler is born

  • Rene Descartes is born

  • Galileo builds his first telescope improving on a Dutch design.

  • Kepler creates two laws of planetary motion

  • Galileo discovers four of Jupiter's moons and publishes "Siderius Nuncius"

  • Galileo brought before religious authorities

  • Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion

  • "Novum Organum" describing the Baconian Method of science is published.

  • Francis Bacon dies

  • Kepler dies

  • Galileo brought to religious officials again and forced to recant. Placed under house arrest.

  • Rene Descartes publishes Discours de la methodé explaining how arithmetic, algebra, and geometry could be combined to solve problems.

  • Galileo dies at 79.

  • Issac Newton is born

  • Descartes dies

  • Newton develops the theories of gravitation

  • Issac Newton presents his three laws of motion in the "Principia Mathematica Philosophiae Naturalis."

  • The research of Isaac Newton

  • Issac Newton dies