Scientific Revolution Timeline by ERIKA MERIDA

1543

emerida0010 — 2023-09-28 15:47:34 UTC

Nicolas Copernicus published a book supporting the heliocentric theory.

1545

emerida0010 — 2023-09-28 15:48:56 UTC

Pope Paul III called the Council of Trent to stop the spread of

Protestantism and to revive the Catholic Church. It said only the Church

could interpret the Bible, and it set up the Inquisition to combat heresy.

1564

emerida0010 — 2023-09-28 15:50:26 UTC

Galileo Galilei was born.

1600

emerida0010 — 2023-09-28 15:51:10 UTC

The Inquisition tried Giordano Bruno and burned him at the stake for

heresy. He supported the heliocentric theory.

1609

emerida0010 — 2023-09-28 15:52:08 UTC

Galileo invented a telescope that convinced him of the heliocentric model.

1615

emerida0010 — 2023-09-28 15:52:40 UTC

The Catholic Church told Galileo to stop sharing his theory in public

1615

emerida0010 — 2023-09-28 15:53:41 UTC

Paolo Antonio Foscarini published a book defending Copernicus and

arguing the heliocentric model did not go against the Bible.

1616

emerida0010 — 2023-09-28 15:54:56 UTC

The Catholic Church added Copernicus’s work (and others supporting the

heliocentric model) to its list of banned books.

1632

emerida0010 — 2023-09-28 15:55:26 UTC

Galileo published Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems.

1633

emerida0010 — 2023-09-28 15:56:01 UTC

The Inquisition charged Galileo with heresy and tried him in Rome.

1642

emerida0010 — 2023-09-28 15:56:36 UTC

Galileo died

1661

emerida0010 — 2023-09-28 15:57:05 UTC

Isaac Newton began teaching Galileo and Copernicus’s ideas in England

1758

emerida0010 — 2023-09-28 15:57:34 UTC

The Catholic Church ended the ban on books teaching the heliocentric

model.

1939

emerida0010 — 2023-09-28 15:57:59 UTC

Pope Pius XII called Galileo a hero of research.

1979

emerida0010 — 2023-09-28 15:58:23 UTC

Pope John Paul II ordered an investigation into the Church’s treatment of

Galileo.

1566

emerida0010 — 2023-10-31 17:15:15 UTC

Marie de Coste Blanche prints "the nature of the sun and earth"

1601-1609

emerida0010 — 2023-10-31 17:17:22 UTC

Johannes Kepler's mathematical laws of planetary motion

1590

emerida0010 — 2023-10-31 17:18:28 UTC

Zacharias Jansen invented the microscope