What was the change?
Before the 1500's several people believed in what the bible addressed towards the topic of how the world was created. On the other hand, several other scholars believed in the theories of Greek and Roman astronomers such as Aristotle and Ptolemy and their theories on how the universe was organized. During this time period various people believed that the earth was a non-moving object as well as how they thought the Earth was located in the center of the universe, which seemed explainable because of the fact that the sun seemed to move around the Earth as it rose in the morning and it set on a different region in the evening. This led many scholars to start questioning the idea of how the universe was organized, which led to the development of the Scientific Revolution. This revolution led to the biggest change in history were several people began to question the natural world, and challenge the the accepted beliefs that several people have believed throughout this time period.
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Johannes Kepler Johannes Kepler was an impressive mathematician, who continued the works of Tycho Brahe. He created certain mathematical laws that explained the motion of the planetary things. For example he proved that the planets revolved around the sun in elliptical orbits instead of circular orbits as they thought. Kepler's ideas demonstrated that Copernicus's theory was right, with mathematical reasoning. | Galileo Galilei Galileo built upon this astronomical ideas by building his own telescope, and making closer observations of the planets. With the observations he made he published a book called "Starry Messenger," where he proved that Jupiter had four moons, and that the sun had dark spots. The discoveries he was making was challenging the Catholic church, because they didn't want people to think that the Catholic church was wrong. The church did something to stop this, and called Galileo to trial. In 1633, they made Galileo read a signed confession were he agreed that the ideas of Copernicus were false. | Isaac Newton By the mid-1600's, The ideas of all the scientist who contributed to the Heliocentric theory changed the whole view in physics and astronomy. Issac Newton discovered a simple theory of motion, but very important. He did the great discovery of Gravity, which is where the motion of every object in the universe attracts every object, depending on the mass of the object, and the distance between them. |
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler was an impressive mathematician, who continued the works of Tycho Brahe. He created certain mathematical laws that explained the motion of the planetary things. For example he proved that the planets revolved around the sun in elliptical orbits instead of circular orbits as they thought. Kepler's ideas demonstrated that Copernicus's theory was right, with mathematical reasoning.
Galileo Galilei
Galileo built upon this astronomical ideas by building his own telescope, and making closer observations of the planets. With the observations he made he published a book called "Starry Messenger," where he proved that Jupiter had four moons, and that the sun had dark spots. The discoveries he was making was challenging the Catholic church, because they didn't want people to think that the Catholic church was wrong. The church did something to stop this, and called Galileo to trial. In 1633, they made Galileo read a signed confession were he agreed that the ideas of Copernicus were false.
Isaac Newton
By the mid-1600's, The ideas of all the scientist who contributed to the Heliocentric theory changed the whole view in physics and astronomy. Issac Newton discovered a simple theory of motion, but very important. He did the great discovery of Gravity, which is where the motion of every object in the universe attracts every object, depending on the mass of the object, and the distance between them.
