Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment

An explanation of how or why something happens.

• Secular

• Theory

• Renaissance

• Science

A period from the 1500s to the 1700s in which many scientific advances changed people's traditional beliefs.

• The Scientific Revolution

• The digital Revolution

• The French Revolution

• The Beatles Revolution

He believed that the sun was the center of the universe. Earth and the other planets followed a circular path around the sun.

• Descartes

• Robert Hooke

• Nicolaus Copernicus

• Ptolomey

A German astronomer who used mathematics to support Copernicus's idea, adding that the planets move in oval paths called ellipses.

• Galileo Galilei

• Johannes Kepler

• Mary Wolstonecraft

• Blaise Pascal

Designed a Telescope to support Copernicus ideas, but for that he was imprisioned.

• Nicolaus Copernicus

• Descartes

• Baron de Montesquieu

• Galileo Galilei

An apple falling led him to the idea of gravity.

• Galileo Galilei

• Nicolaus Copernicus

• Isaac Newton

• Steve Jobs

Year in which Newton published his book Principia.

• 1503

• 1687

• 1789

• 2001

Who began disecting human bodies?

• Galileo Galilei

• Antoni Van Leewenhoek

• Andreas Vesalius

• Dr. House

Began using a microscope. He soon discovered cells.

• Captain Hook

• John Locke

• Robert Hooke

• Offda Hook

Dutch merchant who improved the microscope by using more powerful lenses. He used this microscope to discover tiny organisms later called bacteria.

• Andreas Vesalius

• Robert Hooke

• Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

• Renee Descartes