scientific revolution

  • Oct 31, 1451

    Christopher Columbus was born

    son of Domenico Colombo and Susanna Fontanarossa
  • Mar 3, 1543

    The publication of On The Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres by Copernicus

    In the book Copernicus wrote about how the earth revoled around sun, the heliocentric theory, not the other way around like it was believed
  • Mar 3, 1571

    Johannes Kepler born

    He made the three laws of planetary motion.
    And he also published many books like Astronomia Nova and Harmonices Mundi where he stated his first two laws in the former and the third in the later
  • Francois Viete Invents Analytical Trigonometry

    his invention is essential to the study of physics and astronomy
  • galileos telescope

    The telescope allowed him to be the first to see the craters of the moon and the four moons that orbited Jupiter
  • Kepler publishes Astronomia Nova

    The book has five parts each one about the movement of planet.s It also contains his first two laws of pantery motion:
  • Galileo publishes Starry Messanger

    first book to be published about observations made through a telescope
  • Kepler publishes Harmonice Mundi

    This book contians his thrid law of plantery motion
  • Dialogues Concerning the Two Chief Systems of the World published by Galieo

    The book compares the Copernican system with the traditional Ptolemaic system
  • Dialogues Concerning the Two Chief Systems of the World published by Galieo

    The trial was because of his book Dialogues on the Two Chief Systems of the World, the Cathloic Church thought that it showed a supicion of heresy so they put him on trial
  • Two New Sciences is published

    Two New Sciences is published by Galileo about the laws of motion
  • Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica is published by Newton

    The book sates his laws of motion and his law of gravity
  • Isaac Newton Publishes Philosophia Naturalis Principia Mathematica

    the Principia lays out Newton's comprehensive model of the universe as organized according to the law of universal gravitation
  • The Salem Witch Trials

    200 people are tried for witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts. Over 7,000 women were executed for witchcraft in Europe between 1550 and 1700
  • Giovanni Alfonso Borelli Publishes On the Motion of Animals

    his work is the greatest early triumph of the application of mechanical laws to the human organism