Tuesday, September 21, 2010

SCIENCE DURING RENAISSANCE PERIOD

ESTABLISHMENTS OF ACADEMIES
  1. Academia dei Lincei in Rome (1603-1630)
  2. Academia del Cimiento in Florante (1657-1667)

BOOKS AND JOURNALS

  1. Journal Des Savants of Paris (1665)
  2. Aeta Eruditorium of Leipzig (1682)

GREAT TREATISES

  1. Principia Mathematica of Sir Isaac Newton (1687)
  2. Trait de La Lumieres of Christian Huygens (1690)

REMARKABLE SCIENTIST

  • Johan Gutenburg- printing press
  • German Cardinal Nickolas of Cusa- exponent of the value of experiment
  • Niccolas Copernicus- heliocentric theory
  • Leonardo Da Vinci- greatest Artist of his time
  • Andres Vesalius- founder of Modern Human Anatomy

NEW STATUS OF GREEK SCIENCE

  • Simon Stevinus- decimal fraction
  • Johannes kypler- theorized about the movement of planet
  • Rene Descartes- inventor of graph who delivered the existence of GOD
  • Paracelsus- alchemist
  • Francis Bacon- improvised scientific method
  • Isaac newton- discovered the gravity

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