The Scientific Revolution

In little more than a century, astronomy was remade. The telescope opened the sky, Kepler found that planets move in ellipses, Galileo turned observation into evidence, and Newton's universal gravitation united the heavens and the Earth under one law.

• Galileo GalileiItalian
• Johannes KeplerGerman
• Giovanni CassiniItalian-French
• Christiaan HuygensDutch
• Isaac NewtonEnglish
• Edmond HalleyEnglish

• The Galilean Moons of Jupiter1610 CE
• The Phases of Venus1610 CE
• The Discovery of Titan1655 CE
• The Nature of Saturn's Rings1659 CE
• The Periodicity of Halley's Comet1705 CE

• Astronomia nova1609 CE
• Sidereus Nuncius1610 CE
• Harmonices Mundi1619 CE
• Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems1632 CE
• Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica1687 CE

• ContainsJohannes Kepler
• ContainsGalileo Galilei
• ContainsChristiaan Huygens
• ContainsGiovanni Cassini
• ContainsIsaac Newton
• ContainsEdmond Halley
• ContainsThe Galilean Moons of Jupiter
• ContainsThe Phases of Venus
• ContainsThe Discovery of Titan
• ContainsThe Nature of Saturn's Rings
• ContainsThe Periodicity of Halley's Comet
• ContainsAstronomia nova
• ContainsSidereus Nuncius
• ContainsHarmonices Mundi
• ContainsDialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
• ContainsPhilosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
• ContainsKepler's Laws of Planetary Motion
• ContainsUniversal Gravitation
• ContainsRudolphine Tables
• ContainsThe Invention of the Telescope
• ContainsFounding of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich
• Associated withScientific Revolutions
• Associated withThe Copernican Revolution