Sunday, May 22, 2022

Basic timeline of the Scientific Revolution

This post is a basic timeline of the Scientific Revolution. There are 16 events listed below alphabetically. Source: Wikipedia

  • 1543: Nicolaus Copernicus publishes De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
  • 1543: Andreas Vesalius publishes On the Structure of the Human Body
  • 1576-1580: Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg astronomical observatory is constructed
  • 1600: William Gilbert publishes De Magnete
  • 1609: Johannes Kepler publishes Astronomia nova
  • 1610: Galileo Galilei publishes The Starry Messenger
  • 1620: Francis Bacon publishes Novum Organum
  • 1628: William Harvey publishes De Motu Cordis
  • 1632: Galileo Galilei publishes Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo
  • 1637: René Descartes publishes Discourse on the Method
  • 1660: Royal Society is established
  • 1660's: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek begins publishing microscope observations
  • 1661: Robert Boyle publishes The Sceptical Chymist
  • 1687: Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
  • 1690: Christiaan Huygens publishes Treatise on Light
  • 1704: Isaac Newton publishes Opticks