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Some Scientist During the Enlightenment:

These are some scientist that lived during the enlightenment:

 

  • John Kay
  • Fredrich Bessel
  • Sir William Hershel
  • Leonardo Da Vinci
  • Charls Calomb
  • Issacc Newton
  • James Hargreaves
  • Antonie Lavoisier

 

 

Here are some important date’s during the Scientific Revolution:

 

1080

El Cid's soldiers discover a great library in Spain filled whit books of ancient science.

 

1400-1600

Renaissance leads to new interest in nature.

 

1450

Printing pres is invented.

 

1543

Copernicus published suncentered theory; Vesalius published book on anomy.

 

1600-1800

Age of Reason, or the Enlightenment.

 

1609

Kepler discovers laws governing movement of planets; telescope is invented.

 

1610

Galileo publishes telescopic observation of solar system.

 

1620s

Bacon publishes description of scientific method.

 

1628

Harvy publishes description of hart and blood circulation.

 

1642

Galileo dies; Newton is born.

 

1661

British Royal Society is founded; Boyle criticizes ancient chemical theories.

 

1673

Leeuwenhoek begins describing "little animals" and other things seen under microscope.

 

1687

Newton publishes Principia.

 

1760

Frankling demonstrates lightning rod.

 

1789

Lavoisier publishes Elements of Chemistry; French Revolution begins.

 

1800

Cuvier digs up bones of dinosaur near Paris.

 

1808

Dalton publishes atomic theory.

 

1830

Lyell publishes Principales of Geology.

 

1831

Faraday discovers how to change magnetism into electricity.

 

1859

Darwin publishes Origin of Species.

 

1869

Mendeleyev publishes periodic table of elements; first dye is synthesized using principals of organic chemistry.

 

1870s

Pasteur and Kock prove that microorganisms can cause humans and animals diseases.

 

1895

Roentgen discovers X rays; Becquerel discovers radioactivity.

 

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