A Scientific Revolution
...ntric universe, or Sun-centred universe in which all of the planets revolved around the Sun. It was previously understood that the Earth was the centre of the universe, thus arose many critics to Copernicus’ ideas. Copernicus could easily be seen as the first step to a scientific revolution. Galileo Galilei was a heavy supporter of Copernicus’ ideas. Unlike Copernicus, he was able to mathematically prove Copernicus’ ideas. Through his invention of a telescope, Galileo was also able to prove that Jupiter had many moons. He also discovered that our sun had dark spots on them, and that the moon had mountains and craters upon it. After he published his Dialogue on the Two Chief Systems of the World, of which pertained to his scientific discoveries, made several people within the Catholic Church unsettled. Galileo was later tried by the church and tortured into confession and submission. Had Galileo not been silenced, what might have he accomplished? Isaac Newton brought together the ideas of Copernicus, Galileo and the genius of Johannes Kepler, and synthesized the ideas of previous centuries. These previous ideas allows him to create his Three Laws of Motion, and his idea that the universe is an orderly and simplistic place, created that way by god. Little did Newton know that the completion of the work of previous scientists would conclude a long yet quiet revolution of ...