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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