Timeline by Brianna Ly

1473-1543 Nicolas Copernicus

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Polish priest and mathematician. He denies the medieval belief. Inherited from the classical Greek astronomer Ptolemy. (c. 90-168). That the earth is the center of the universe and develops revolutionary theory that the earth and planets revolve around the sun (heliocentric theory) in his De Revolutions orbium ceolestiurn. (On revolution of the Celestial Spheres, completed 1530).

1514-1564 Andreas Vesalius

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Belgium physician and anatomist. In his De humani corporis fabrica libri septem (Seven Books On The Structure Of The Human Body 1543). He describes human autonomy more accurately than the classical Greek scientists Galen (c. 130-201). Whose works have been the standard reference throughout medieval Europe. His work bring a sentence of death from the Inquisition (Catholic Church tribunal). For Immorality, but he is not executed.

1561-1626 Francisco Bacon

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English philosopher, His novum Organum (1620) stresses the importance of proper scientific method. Theories must be supported by proof acquired by the experiment and observation.

1564-1642 Galileo Galilei

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An Italian mathematician and scientist. The first to use the telescope for astronomy. He describes the surface of the moon and the rotation of the moons of Jupiter. He also established basic laws of motion from the experimentation. He is then arrested by the Inquisition and forced to recant the endorsement of the Heliocentric theory made is his Dialogo Dei Due Massimi Sistemi Del Mondo (Dialogue dei Concerning the Two Cheif World Systems, 1632).

1571-1630 Johannes Kepler

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German astronomer and mathematician, accepts the heliocentric theory after examining data gathering by the danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546-1609). His astronomia nova (New Astronomy, 1609). And De Harnorice mundi (Harnories of the World 1619). Explain that the orbits of the planets are ellipitical and not circular as Copernicus has suggested.

1578-1657 William Harvey

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English physician and anatomist. He discovers the circulation of the blood and describes the purpose of arteries, veins, and the heart. In De motu cordis et sanguinis in animalibus (On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals, 1628).

1596-1650 Rene Descartes

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French Philosopher and Mathematician, Develops analytic geometry and other mathematical techniques useful theocratical science. He believes that mathematical proof is the model for rational scientific inquiry. His best known philosophical