Changes Over the Future
Years Over the Scientific Revolution
Scientific Revolution
Who Were the People Associated With?
Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution. His achievements include improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations.His experimental worked on motions on bodies. Galileo was exposed of the Aristotelian view of the world, then the leading scientific authority and the only one sanctioned by the Roman Catholic Church.
Nicolaus Copernicus
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler was a an astronomer who contributed a number of scientific breakthroughs including his famous laws of planetary motions. In 1577, he witnessed a both a comet as well as a lunar eclipse in 1580. Some of his famous works were very popular that in 2009 NASA honored Kepler by naming a mission after him. During 1961, Johannes published the Epitome Astronomiae. It was most of his influential work and it discussed all of the heliocentric astronomy in a systematic way.