Unit 5

  • Jan 1, 1473

    Nicolas Copernicus

    1543 De Revolutionibus Orbium Caelestium (On the Revolution of Heavenly Orbs). He attended University of Padua.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1473 to

    Scientific Revolution in the 17th Century

  • Jan 1, 1543

    Vesulius

    He is referred to as the founder of Modern Human Anatomy. He was a Flemish anatomist. He wrote De humani corporis fabrica.
  • Nov 1, 1543

    On the Revolution of Heavely Orbs

    This was a book that was published by Copernicus which states his heliocentric theory.
  • Jan 1, 1546

    Tycho Brahe

    1572-1573 Crab Nebula. 1577 New Comet.
  • Jan 1, 1561

    Francis Bacon

    1620 Novum Organum (New Tools). Theory of Induction c.f. Karl Popper, David Hume
  • Jan 1, 1564

    Galileo Galillei

    1600 Giordano Bruno burnt. 1615 Letter to Grand Duchess of Tuscany. 1632 Dialogue on Two World Systems. 1633 Galileo banned by Church. 1638 discourse on Two New Sciences.
  • Jan 1, 1571

    Johannes Kepler

    Three Laws of Planetary Motion.
  • Nov 12, 1572

    Crab Nebula

  • Rene Descartes

    1637 Discourse on Method, and Theory of Deduction. Deductive reasoning is using your common sense to understand information from multiple generalized statements.
  • Giordano Bruno burnt

    Giordano Bruno was burnt by the Roman Catholic Church because he believed and campaigned for the Copernican System.
  • Letter to Grand Duchess of Tuscany

    The letter to he Grand Duchess was an essay talking about the relation between the revelations of the bible and the new discoveries of science.
  • Three Laws of Planetary Motion

    These three laws describing orbital motion and the way planets orbited the sun.
  • Novum Organum

    Meaning new tools was made by Francis Bacon.This is a philosophical work made by Bacon, and it was created in Latin. In this philosophical work Bacon stated his theory of Induction, learning by observation.
  • William Harvey

    1628 On the Movement of the Heart and the Blood.
  • On the Movement of the Heart and the Blood.

    This was when Harvery figured out how the heart and the blood flows through the body. He figured this out by dissecting animals and using reasoning.
  • Dialogue on Two World Systems

    This was a book which compared the copernican system and the ptolemaic system. This book was dedicated to his patron Ferdinando II de' Medici.
  • Galileo banned by Church

    In 1633 Galileo was banned by the church. Galileo was personally safe and his works had not been banned so he was good. He was banned because of his support of the Copernican System.
  • Discourse on Method

    This was a book which was very important to the evolution of natural sciences. In this book descartes mainly addresses the problem of skepticism. He started his reasoning under the basis that you should question everything.
  • Discourse on Two New Sciences

    This was the explanation of two new things, kinematics and strength of materials.
  • Isaac Newton

    1687 Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematic Principles of Natural Philosophy). 1672 Jean Picard and Mars. Jean Picard was an experiment conducted which in the end ended up finding mars.1704 Opticks.
  • Malpighi and Capillaries

    Malpighi discovered Capillaries. Malpighi used the telescope to look at the human brain and anatomy.
  • Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematic Principles of Natural Philosophy)

    This was a book which Newton published which states his different theories and laws. His three laws of motion and then his laws of universal gravitation.
  • Opticks

    This was a book which was published to address the optics and refraction of light. This was considered a major contribution to science.