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Scientific Revolution Timeline

Serene Morales, Emi Taketa, Charles Duarte

Nicolaus Copernicus

1473-1543

A polish cleric from Germany who believed that the sun was the center of the universe, not the earth. Made the Copernican Hypothesis and published On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Sphere on the year of his death

Paracelsus

1493-1541

Born in Switzerland, Paracelsus was the Father of Chemical Medicine and Science of Toxicology

Andreas Vesalius

1514-1564

Andreas Vesalius

Born in Belgium, Vesalius was a Flemish physician who studied anatomy by dissecting human bodies. He published his masterpiece On the Structure of the Human Body, which revolutionized the understanding of human anatomy.

Tycho Brahe

1546-1601

Tycho Brahe

Born in Sweden, Brahe was a astronomer who made the Tychonic System and the Rudolphine Tables, which was the new and improved tables of planetary motion, made for Rudolph II. He compiled a huge pile of data which was not made sense and left to be figured out by his assistant, Johannes Kepler.

Francis Bacon

1561-1626

Francis Bacon

Born in England, Bacon was an English Politician and writer. He was a propagandist dejecting aristotelian and medieval methods with research that must be done; widespread adoption of experimental philosophy. In result, created the general theory of inductive reasoning called empiricism.

Galileo Galilei

1564-1642

Galileo Galilei

Born in Italy, Galileo challenged the old ideas of motion. His greatest achievement was his developement of the experimental method, and with his own method, he discovered the law of intertia. As an astronomer, he also discovered the Rings of Saturn with his own telescope.

Johannes Kepler

1571-1630

Johannes Kepler

Born in Germany, Kepler was Brahe's young assistant who made sense of all of Brahe's data. He mathematically proved that the planet's orbit's are elliptical and the planet's obrit at different speeds. He pioneered in the field of optics and was the first to explain refraction-vision. He also contributed to integral calculus and the advances of geometry.

William Harvey

1578-1657

William Harvey

Born in England, Harvey was a royal physician who was the first to discover the circulation of blood in the veins/artieries. With this, he was also the first the explain how the heart worked as a pump and the function of its muscles and valves. He was the first to able to explain the whole vascular system.

Rene Descartes

1596-1650

Rene Descartes

Born in France, Descartes was a French Philosopher who accepted who discovered an important tool, analytical geometry, and had the view of Cartesian dualism, which was the view that reality could be reduced to mind and matter.

Robert Boyle

1627-1691

Robert Boyle

Born in Ireland, Boyle's helped found the modern science of chemistry. He discovered the basic elements of nature and small atoms. He was also the first to create a vacuum which disproved Descartes' theory. He also discovered Boyle's Law, which was the gas inverse with volume

Anton Van Leewenhoek

1632-1732

Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

Born in the Dutch Republic, Anton is the Father of Microbiology, which he discovered microorganisms. He also made the cell theory and discovered the protoza.

John Locke

1632-1704

John Locke

Born in England, Locke was a physician and a member of the Royal Society, he created the essay, Essay Concerning Human Understanding, which set theories of how human beings learn and form ideas, and also contributed to the theory of sensationalism.

Isaac Newton

1643-1727

Isaac Newton

Born in England, Newton was an English scientist who discovered the law of universal gravitation. As a genius mathematician, he also created calculus, which is used now in modern day time.

Pierre Bayle

1647-1706

Pierre Bayle

Born in France, Bayle was a French philosopher who made the Historical and Critical Dictionary, which he critically examined religious beliefs and persecutions of his past.

Maria Sibylla Merian

1647-1717

Maria Sibylla Merian

Born in France, Maria was a celebrated scientific illustrator who combined both art and science together intimately. She was the first to directly observe insects, and discovered the metamorphosis of butterflies.

Madame du

Chatelet

1706-1749

Madame du Chatelet

Born in France, Madame du Chatelet was a French noblewoman who studied physics and mathematics. She was the first to publish and translate scientific articles of her physics and mathematics studies, in French.

David Hume

1711-1776

David Hume

Born in England, Hume was a central figure in the Scottish Enlightenment: Of Natural Characters. His emphasis on civic morality and religious skepticism had a powerful impact at home and abroad.

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