When all was said and done, the major thinkers of the Scientific Revolution (Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Descartes) had revealed a universe which seemed like a perfectly run machine ...

A German astronomer and mathematician, Kepler was one of the central figures in the scientific revolution of the 17th Century. For the thought that our solar system had planets travelling in ...

However, it was not until Kepler's observations that the planets ... This belief endured well into the Scientific Revolution, with both Copernicus and Galileo arguing that the then-known planets ...

He learned of the scientific revolution that had been going on in Europe through the work of Galileo Galilei, Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, and René Descartes. Newton began to question ...