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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