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500 BCE
Alchemists and Astrologers
During 500 BC, the nearest thing individuals needed to science were common scholars.they were the one that were proving things that have been unexplained for a wile. even though most things they "proved" ended up being untrue in the end they were really the starters of the scientific revolution. -
100
Geocentric Theory
It appeared to be obvious to early space experts that whatever is left of the universe moved about a steady, stationary Earth. The Sun, Moon, planets, & stars could be seen moving about Earth along round ways for a long time. So there was no reason for people to believe that the earth moved because clearly it didn't. to everyone else everything moved around the earth. this was the first theory of its kind so everyone believed it. -
1200
Roger Bacon
Roger Bacon was an English philosopher and Franciscan friar who placed considerable emphasis on the study of nature through empiricism. In the 1200s bacon sparked the scientific revolution. He was an alchemist that used experiments and mathematics to understand mysteries. this new approach that bacon had produce answers that no one had gotten be fore it answered questions in physics, astronomy and anatomy. He went against the church and his idea was shot down immediately. -
1200
Scientific Method
''a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.'' This is what most people in this time period would use for their methods when testing a new idea that they had or just a hypothesis and turning it into a theory. -
1500
Nicolaus Copernicus
In the 1500s Copernicus started to abandon Ptolemy theory of the earth is the center of the universe. Copernicus developed a theory called the heliocentric theory. This theory states that the sun was the center of the universe and everything else rotated around it. Copernicus realized his theory explained many of the unknowns in astronomy. This was revolutionary because before this they had limited knowledge on the topic. -
1500
Heliocentric Theory
The term heliocentric describes the correct theory, first posed by Nicolas Copernicus, that the Earth is simply one of several planets which orbit the sun. This theory was the one originally created by Ptolemy but it was wrong so Copernicus strives to change it and make it right. -
1543
Andreas Versalius
Vesalius like Kepler did not believe that what a Alchemists theory and he used science and mathematics to creates his own theory about the human body. In 1543 Versalius published a seven volume book called On The Fabric of the Human Body. The pictures that were featured in his book were incredibly detailed for the time, they helped readers to gain a visual of the many complicated components of the human body for medical biology. -
1551
William Harvey
He had equally important findings. He showed how the blood traveled through the veins and the artery and the most important muscle in the body the heart functioned. This was a big discovery for medical science because they could treat patients with heart or blood related problems alot better -
Johaannes Kepler
Kepler was a brilliant guy and he showed that when he conducted a series of tests to test Copernicus's theory. Some of the ideas Copernicus based his theory on were wrong and that slowed Kepler down. He published the laws of planetary motion in 1609. It took the work of a Italian scientist to produce clear evidence that the earth moves around the sun. This heleped atronomers further study the universe knowing this imformation. -
Francis Bacon
He was an English Philosopher and a scientist.He Believed what he saw If it want proved by experiment he tried to proved.Biographer Loren Eisley described Bacon's compelling desire to invent a new scientific method, stating that Bacon,"more fully than any man of his time, entertained the idea of the universe as a problem to be solved, examined, meditated upon rather than as an eternally fixed stage upon which man walked."This helped people later come up with educated findings instead of guesses. -
Galileo Galilei
He had been reading of a dutch device that made distant objects appear larger. But Galileo wanted to create his own device so he created the telescope and started the "Heavens" as he called it. Galileo was able to see things with this marvelous device he created that no one has seen before, Like mountains on the moon. Galileo used a/l this information he gathered and figured out that the earth and every other planet revolved around the sun. He drew sketches of what he saw. -
Renè Decartes
He was a french philosopher and mathematician. He was a leader of the scientific revolution. Decartes thought that no assumption should be accepted without question. He built a method of questioning that could help prove a lot of theories. He helped to later Prove many theories Using his method Because he was able to create questions for scientists to prove that their theory was right. -
Robert Boyle
In 1661 Boyle showed that temperature and pressure affect the space that a gas occupies.in 1662, delineated the quantitative relationship that Boyle derived from experimental values, later known as Boyle’s law: that the volume of a gas varies inversely with pressure. His discovery were important to the revolution because they were revolutionary for chemistry. He basically discovered How gas works and how it takes the spaces in stead of oxygen. -
Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton Finalized the theory. He finally had enough evidence to get It published and have everyone believe his work. No longer will people believe that the earth moved because of constant attention of god they will believe in what really moves it, Science he helped people see that a lot of the things they thought were magical could be laws and theory of science. This at the time was what everyone was trying to prove either the earth was round and rotated or it wasn't and didn't -
Antoine Lavoisier
He believed that fire was an element. he found that when a substance rapidly combined with oxygen made fire.He also created the theory that matter cant be changed nor destroyed . This is one of the most important principles in chemistry. His discoveries in the late 1700s Helped further scientific discoveries. By this time science had spread across Europe. He helped people see that fire was an important thing to study and how it could further studies.
