Scientific Revolution
Important People and Ideas
Ptolemaic System
Earth centers solar system. Church Supported.
Coppernicus
Sun-centered solar system. Heliocentric
Kepler
Kepler's laws of planetary motion.
Gallileo
Galileo had challenged the Catholic church on where the sun was placed in the solar system.
Newton
Newton developed the 17th law of gravitation. Gravity.
William Harvey
Harvey has studied medicine and science, he was famous for figuring out circulation in the heart.
Robert Boyle
Boyle is famous for the Boyle's law. Boyle's law is the relationship between absolute pressure and volume of a gas.
Margaret Cavendish
Cavendish was a Philosopher , and a writer she was one of the first examples of science-fiction
Maria Winkelmann
Winckelmann was famous for discovering a comet in 1702, she was a German astronomer.
Rene Descartes
Descartes is famous for figuring out the important connection between geometry and algebra.
Francis Bacon
Bacon had come up with the scientific method, such as the step to a science experiment.