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Copernican Revolution
- Nicolaus CopernicusNicolaus Copernicus entered the world on the 19th of February 1473 within the city walls of Toruń. This location sat in Royal Prussia, a region recently…
- Galileo GalileiIn the year 1564, a boy named Galileo was born in Pisa to Vincenzo Galilei and Giulia Ammannati. His father worked as a lutenist and music theorist who…
- Copernican heliocentrismIn the 3rd century BCE, Aristarchus of Samos proposed what was, so far as is known, the first serious model of a heliocentric Solar System.
- Newton's laws of motionIn 1687, Isaac Newton published Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica to describe the motion of physical objects. Before this publication, Aristotle…
- Galilean moonsOn the 7th of January 1610, Galileo Galilei wrote a letter containing the first mention of Jupiter's moons. He saw only three of them at that time and…
- GeocentrismIn the 6th century BC, Anaximander proposed a cosmology where Earth stood as a section of a pillar at the center of everything.
- Isaac NewtonIsaac Newton was born on Christmas Day, the 25th of December 1642 at Woolsthorpe Manor in Lincolnshire. His father had died three months before the birth.
- De revolutionibus orbium coelestiumA physician's library list from 1514 mentions a manuscript matching the description of Nicolaus Copernicus's early work.
- Johannes KeplerJohannes Kepler was born on the 27th of December 1571 in the Free Imperial City of Weil der Stadt. His birth came prematurely, and he claimed to have been…
- Thomas DiggesThomas Digges entered the world around 1546. His father Leonard Digges worked as a mathematician and surveyor. Bridget Wilford served as his mother.
- Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia MathematicaIn August 1684, Edmond Halley visited Isaac Newton at Cambridge. The Royal Society Fellow asked the mathematician about planetary motion following a debate…
- Tycho BraheTyge Ottesen Brahe entered the world on the 14th of December 1546 at Knutstorp Castle, an ancestral seat located north of Svalöv in then Danish Scania.
- Kepler's laws of planetary motionIn 1609, Johannes Kepler published a book titled Astronomia nova in Prague. This work contained the first two laws of planetary motion derived from the…