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Written by Nicholas Copernicus and published during the same year of his death.
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In mathematics, Girolamo Cardano's The Great Art contained many algebraic innovations and new methods for treating equations of the third degree.
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Birthplace is in Pisa
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Explains the use of new instruments and how to sail on a great circle course.
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A Star that burned for 18 months and caused questioning of Artistotle's theories.
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Made famous by Tycho Brahe, and again challenging a central tenet inherited from Aristotle, that the celestial spheres were 'solid' perhaps even crystalline.
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Pope Gregory XIII suggested reform of the Julian calendar, thus leading much of Catholic Europe away from the Julian (Old Style) calendar to the Gregorian (New Style).
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Idea invented by Simon Stevin .
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Brilliant work on analytic geometry by Francois Viète
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London merchant Sir Thomas Gresham founded this college to provide public lectures on a variety of subjects from astronomy and geometry to concerns in medicine.
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Burned by the Catholic Church for supporting Copernicus's theories.
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Galileo demonstrates that a projectile follows a parabolic path.
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Inquisition told Galileo not to hold or defend the hypothesis asserted in Copernicus' On the Revolutions.
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Supports Galileo's Copernicanism and providing supporting arguments, among many other things, for the relationship between science and religion.
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Galileo publishes his strategic essay, The Assayer where he argues against Aristotle and the Scholastics in favor of mathematical and experimental methods, moving deftly across many topics, from statics and dynamics to his theory of matter.
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Harvey employed brilliant experiments and new quantitative arguments to show that the blood circulates.
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Galileo is called before the Inquisition in Rome; he is vehemently suspected of heresy for supporting and teaching the Copernicanism hypothesis. After he abjured, Galileo was placed under house arrest for the remainder of his life, his visitors, his mail, and his daily actions were monitored.
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Published by Descartes and is considered the father of modern geometry.
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Having filled a sealed tube with mercury, and with the open end immersed in mercury, noted that the height fell in the tube to a consistent level, leaving a void above it.
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Refkects evident in his study of natural phenomena, most notably mechanistic concepts relating to physiology and sensation. Famously, Hobbes held human life 'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short'.
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Written by Walter Charleton
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Marcello Malpighi uses the microscope to observes capillaries joining arteries and veins. Malpighi showed in fine detail that blood circulates.
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Isaac Newton builds his first reflecting telescope; the design, which includes an eyepiece and a concave mirror, is known today as Newtonian.
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Proposes that certain particles in the air are necessary for combustion and are transmitted by the lungs to the blood.
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Observes of spermatozoa by means of the microscope, arguing they are not forms of disease but a source of reproductive material.
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Robert Hooke wrote a legendary letter asking Newton's opinion on the possibility of explaining the motions of the planets on the assumption of inertia and an attractive power from the sun. This heroic exchange of letters led to a legendary series of events
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Proposes foundational principles for what has come to known as classical mechanics; by tradition.
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Edmond Halley provides a mathematical equation for finding the focal lengths of lenses of all shapes.
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Newton decides to go forward in publishing his work on optics.
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Newton is elected President of Royal Society the same year
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Scientific Revolution ends here.