Scientific Revolution

  • Feb 19, 1473

    Copernicus was born

  • Jan 1, 1492

    Columbus discovers New World

  • Jan 1, 1507

    Copernicus' "Commentariolus" begins to circulate

  • Jan 1, 1542

    Publication of "On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres" - helicocentric theory of Renaissance astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus

  • Jan 1, 1546

    Death of Copernicus

  • Dec 14, 1546

    Tycho Brahe born

  • Feb 15, 1564

    Galileu Born

  • May 16, 1571

    Johannes Kepler born

  • Rene Descartes born

  • Giordano Bruno burned at stake for hersey

    He was proponent of Copernicus, among many others.
  • Tycho Brahe Collaboration

    1600-1601
  • Brahe Dies

  • Kepler Publishes "Astronomia Nova" (contains his 1st and 2nd law)

  • Galileo's inventions and discoveries with Telescope (The Starry Messenger)

  • Galileu publishes "Letters on Sunspots"

  • Copernicus' book banned until 'corrected'

  • Thirty Years War breaks out

  • Kepler Publishes "Harmonice Mundi" (contains his 3rd law)

  • Galileo Publishes "Dialogues Concerning the Two Principal Systems of the World" and it's immediately banned

  • Galieo's Trial

  • Galileo publishes "Two New Sciences" (Laws of Motion)

  • Isaac Newton is born

  • Galileo Dies

  • Descartes dies

  • Newton announces his Theory of Colors to the Royal Society

  • Newton publishes "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica"

  • Netwond dies