OLD TIME SCIENTISTS

NICOLAUS COPERNICUS

• Lived from February19,1473- May 24, 1543
• His father was a merchant.
• His mother was the daughter of a wealthy merchant.
• Nicolaus was the youngest of 4 children.

INVENTIONS

• Heliocentric model- a model that placed the sun at the center of the universe instead of earth.
• He contributed to the Scientific Revolution.

HELIOCENTRIC MODEL

JOHANNES KEPLER

• He was claimed to be weak and sickly as a child.
• His father was a mercenary.
• His mother was a healer and herbalist, that was tried for witchcraft.

INVENTIONS

• He came up with the eponymous laws of planetary motion.
• These laws were the foundation for Isaac Newton's universal law of gravity.

EPONYMOUS LAWS OF PLANETARY MOTION

GALILEO GALILEI

• Originally from Pisa, Italy.
• His father was a famous lutenist, composer, and musical theorist.
• His mother was a stay at home mom.

INVENTIONS

• The telescope.
• He contributed on finding the planets and the sun.
• He was the first to see Jupiter.

TELESCOPE