small scale

  • 6 BCE

    hominids appear 6 million

  • Period: 6 BCE to

    small scale

  • 100

    Ptolemy 100AD-170AD

    known for geography/geocentric
  • 276

    Eratosthenes 276BC-194BC

    calculated earth circumference
  • 1473

    copernicus 1473-1543

    heliocentric theory
  • 1546

    Brahe 1546-1601

    fixed up notes and made them more accurate
  • 1561

    Francis Bacon 1561-1626

    known for scientific method
  • 1564

    galileo 1564-1642

    improved telescope
  • 1571

    Kelper 1571-1630

    three laws of planetary motion
  • descartes 1596-1650

    i think therefore i am he questioned everything
  • locke 1632-1704

    all men are created equally just depends how you life your life
  • newton 1643-1727

    three laws of motion
  • mendeleev 1834-1907

    created the periodic table of elements
  • Marie Curie 1867-1934

    known for both physics and chemistry
  • leavitt 1868-1921

    known for the relationship between period and luminosity in cepheid variables
  • Wegner 1880-1930

    continental drift theory
  • hubble 1889-1953

    help proved that the universe is expanding
  • Hess 1906-1969

    outline about how the continental drift