Scientists During the Scientific Revolution

Galileo Galilei
1564–1642

Place of Birth: Pisa, Duchy of Florence, Italy

Biography: He was an Italian astronomer,physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician who played a major role in the scientific revolution during the Renaissance. Galileo has been called the "father of observational astronomy", the "father of modern physics",and the "father of science". His contributions to observational astronomy include the telescopic confirmation of the phases of Venus, the discovery of the four largest satellites of Jupiter and the observation and analysis of sunspots. Galileo also worked in applied science and technology, inventing an improved military compass and other instruments.

Legacy/ Discoveries/ Contributions: He contradicted the church ideas and set his own for the people and other fellow scientist which may be used to help them look for more ideas and facts about the world. He also made the Telescope that help him studied and observed the outer space and other heavenly bodies. He also contributed many things not only in Science but also in Mathematics and in discovery of Physics.He discovered the four largest satellites of Jupiter and it was named after him. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei

Nicolaus Copernicus

1473- 1543

Place of Birth: Toruń, Poland

Biography: Nicolaus Copernicus was born on 19 February 1473 in the city of Toruń , in the province of Royal Prussia, in the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland. His father was a merchant from Kraków and his mother was the daughter of a wealthy Toruń merchant. Nicolaus was the youngest of four children. His brother Andreas became an Augustinian canon at Frombork. His sister Barbara, named after her mother, became a Benedictine nun and, in her final years, prioress of a convent in Chełmno; she died after 1517. His sister Katharina married the businessman and Toruń city councilor Barthel Gertner and left five children, whom Copernicus looked after to the end of his life. Copernicus never married or had children.

Legacies/ Discoveries/ Contributions: The publication of this model in his book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres) just before his death in 1543 is considered a major event in the history of science, triggering the Copernican Revolution and making an important contribution to the Scientific Revolution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus

Isaac Newton
1642–1727

Place of Birth: Woolsthorpe, England

Biography: Born on January 4, 1643, in Woolsthorpe, England, Isaac Newton was an established physicist and mathematician, and is credited as one of the great minds of the 17th century Scientific Revolution. With discoveries in optics, motion and mathematics, Newton developed the principles of modern physics. In 1687, he published his most acclaimed work, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy), which has been called the single most influential book on physics. Newton died in London on March 31, 1727.

Legacies/ Discoveries/ Contributions: Newton’s discoveries anchored the Scientific Revolution and set the stage for everything that followed in mathematics and physics. He shared credit for the creation of calculus, and his Philosophiae Naturalist Principia Mathematical introduced the world to gravity and fundamental laws of motion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IsaacNewton


William Harvey
1578- 1657

Place of Birth: Folkestone, United Kingdom

Biography: William Harvey was born in Folkestone, Kent on 1 April 1578. His father was a merchant. Harvey was educated at King's College, Canterbury and then at Cambridge University. He then studied medicine at the University of Padua in Italy, where the scientist and surgeon Hieronymus Fabricius tutored him.

Legacies/ Discoveries/ Contributions: He discovered that blood circulates through our whole body. He made a map of the circulatory system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Harvey

Albert Einstein

1879- 1955

Place of Birth: Ulm, Germany

Biography: Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, in the Kingdom of Württemberg in the German Empire on 14 March 1879. His parents were Hermann Einstein, a salesman and engineer, and Pauline Koch. In 1880, the family moved to Munich, where his father and his uncle founded Elektrotechnische Fabrik J. Einstein & Cie, a company that manufactured electrical equipment based on direct current. On 17 April 1955, Albert Einstein experienced internal bleeding caused by the rupture of an abdominal aortic aneurysm, which had previously been reinforced surgically by Rudolph Nissen in 1948. He took the draft of a speech he was preparing for a television appearance commemorating the State of Israel's seventh anniversary with him to the hospital, but he did not live long enough to complete it.

Legacies/ Discoveries/ Contributions:  Einstein's work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science. Einstein is best known in popular culture for his mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc2 . He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for his "services to theoretical physics", in particular his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect, a pivotal step in the evolution of quantum theory.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein