SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION



 
NICOLAS COPERNICUS (1475-1543): he was a Polish matematician and astronomer. He proposed the Heliocentric model (1475-1543)




JOHANNES GUTTENBERG: inventor of the printing press. A big contribution to the spread of culture.


JOHANNES KEPLER: was the scientist who said that the planetary motion was ELIPTIC and NOT circular as it was thought before (1571-1630)


GALILEO GALILELI: was the scientist who discovered the telescope. He also provided evidence that the heliocentric theory (by Copernicus) was correct (1564-1642)


ISAAC NEWTON: invented the three laws of motion and the law of Universal Gravitation. He also worked on a few observations of optics (1642-1727)


WILLIAM HARVEY: was an english doctor that described correctly the circulation of blood through the human body as we know ir nowdays (1578-1657)


FRANCIS BACON: came up with the Scientific Method, which is still used today. This included hypothesing, experimentation, observation and induction (1561-1626)