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.