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1200
From Magic to Science
In the 1200s, there was very little difference between science and magic. People thought that Alchemists used spells and magic formulas to change one substance to another. As opposed to those formulas being scientific formulas. -
1250
Before the Renaissance - Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon was an English Philosopher and scientist of the 1200s. He was a Franciscan monk who studied at Oxford and Paris. Bacon was viewed as a leading scholar of his time. -
1300
The Renaissance
The Renaissance period brought curiosity, investigation, discovery, and the practical application o the knowledge of nature to everyday life. People felt more comfortable to question the old beliefs and ideas. They were more willing to use new approaches to answering their new questions. -
1500
The Era of the Scientific Revolution
During this time people began to use experiments and mathematics to understand the mysteries of science. The study of things became more organized. They branched away from explaining the world in terms of religious thoughts, magic, or the ideas of ancient writers. These new approaches produced answers to many questions in physics, astronomy, and anatomy. -
1543
Andres Vesalius
Vesalius did studies to see how the human body worked. He later published a seven-volume book called On the Fabric of the Human Body. His book allowed readers to have a visual understanding of the many complicated components of the body and how they usually work together.This changed scientific revolution because he changed how people understood the human body. -
1550
The New Study of Nature
Many scientists observed things that did not agree with traditional explanations. So they began to question ancient beliefs. They then learned to form conclusions based on what they could observe with on their own. They also used new tools like scientific instruments, mathematics, and experiments. This new approach of study and knowledge started the Scientific Revolution. -
1555
Astronomy, Physics, and Anatomy - Nicolaus Copernicus
Copernicus began to abandon Ptolemy's geocentric theory. He began to argue that the sun was the center of the universe instead of the Earth. He developed the heliocentric, or "sun-centered," theory. Copernicus realized that his theory explained many of the then-known facts about astronomy. -
Johannes Kepler
Kepler and Galilei both helped to confirm Coprenicus's heliocentric theory. Kepler was struggling because some of the ideas on which Copernicus based his theory were wrong. He had proved the theory correct and published his laws of planetary motion in 1609. -
The Triumph of New Science
During this time, new scientific orders spread knowledge of the developments of the scientific revolution. -
Galileo Galilei
Galilei had made his own telescope and began studying the heavens. He was able to see the mountains and valleys of the moon, observed the rings around Saturn and the spots on the sun. He used these observations to argue that not every planet revolves around the Earth. In 1632 he published his work which caused an uproar. People who still believed Ptomley's theory refused to accept the new findings. Church scholars disapproved because they thought the theory contradicted the Bible. -
Isaac Newton
In 1687 Isaac Newton published a book building on the work of Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo. They explained how planets revolved around the sun but they had not explained how those planets moved as they did. After many studies he realixed that the force that holds the planets in their orbits and the force that causes objects to fall to Earth are the same. Newton's work changed the way people viewed the world. And had a huge impact on the science of his time.
