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Facts

Date c. 1400 - c. 1690
Location Europe
Context Reformation • Renaissance

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Illustration of the Copernican heliocentric system showing the sun at the center with concentric orbits for Earth, other planets, and moons, labeled in French.
Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus: heliocentric system
Tycho Brahe
Tycho Brahe's model of Saturn's motion
Johannes Kepler
Galileo's telescopes
Galileo's illustrations of the Moon
Galileo
René Descartes
Kepler's revolutionary laws of planetary motion
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Key People

Isaac Newton
Isaac Newton
English physicist and mathematician
René Descartes
René Descartes
French mathematician and philosopher
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler
German astronomer
Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish astronomer
Painting of Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe wearing a black robe with a white ruffled collar and a gold chain necklace with a large pendant.
Tycho Brahe
Danish astronomer
Christiaan Huygens
Christiaan Huygens
Dutch scientist and mathematician
Robert Boyle
Robert Boyle
Anglo-Irish philosopher and writer