Scientific+Revolution

This is the time in the Renaissance in which most everyone in Europe was emerged in the ideas and beliefs of this era. This started the Scientific Revolution. Finally there was a perfect mix, education, government, technology, and science for great scientific and educational advancements.

Thinkers
We have all heard of Galileo Galilei and Sir Isaac Newton. They were among the top thinkers and explorers of knowledge of this time. Galileo Galilei discovered (using a telescope which was invented during the Renaissance) that moons orbit Jupiter, and was the first scientist to use experiment repeatedly to test his theories. Sir Isaac Newton came up with the laws of motion. And another scientist that not as many people know, is Nicolaus Copernicus, who discovered that the Earth orbits around the sun, not the other way around, and previously believed.



Inventions
Galileo wasn't just a "thinker". He also invented things we use today, such as the thermometer (1593) and the telescope (1609). Other inventions include the microscope (Zacharias and Hans Janssen in 1590) and the barometer (Francis Bacon in 1563).