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Jan 15, 1543
Vesalius
Andreas Vesalius publishes De humani corporis fabrica, (This talks about the Fabric of the Human Body). This is considered to be the first great modern work of science and the foundation of biology. He found that the circulation of blood is a function of the heart when it's pumping. He also assembled the first human skeleton from cutting open dead bodies.
Birth - December 31, 1514
Death - October 15, 1564 -
Jan 15, 1543
Copernicus
Corpernicus published a book about the universe. He rejected the theory that the Earth was the center of the universe and made his own theory. He then came up with the theory that the sun is the center of the universe and the planets orbit it.
Birth - February 19, 1473
Death - May 24, 1543 -
Galileo
Galileo demonstrates that a light object and a heavy object made of the same material, dropped at the same time, will hit the ground at the same time. This was in contrast to the Aristotelian system that heavy objects fall faster than lighter objects.
Birth - February 15, 1564
Death - January 8, 1642 -
Francis Bacon
Bacon tried to create some kind of organization and cooperation in the scientific community by showing how the diverse fields of science relate to one another. In Novum Organum he cites three world-changing inventions: Printing, gunpowder and the compass. These changed the whole world and many studies within it.
Birth - January 22, 1561
Death - April 9, 1626 -
Rene Descartes
He helped create the Deductive method of the scientific method. This changed how theories, hypothesises, and facts are created in modern science. Also, Descartes discusses how motion may be represented as a curve along a graph, defined by its relation to planes of reference.
Birth - March 31, 1596
Death - February 11, 1650 -
Newton
He defined gravity as the force that Earth has on all matter. He discovered that white light shows the colors of the rainbow when shown through a prism. In optics, he also invented the reflecting telescope.
Birth - January 4, 1643
Death - March 31, 1727
