Scientific Revolution

Brillenmachers in Nuremberg, Germany introduced some of the first metal frames for spectacles. The term Brillenmachers means ________

Eyeglass Makers

He studied the mechanics of the eye and how light passes through the fluids inside the eye

1508 Leonardo da Vinci

She published De humani corporis fabrica.

1543 Andreas Vesalius

They created the first compound microscope by stacking several lenses inside a tube.

1590 Zacharias and Hans Janssen

He published Ad Vitellionem Paralipomena. He also identified the causes of myopia and hyperopia based on how the eye focuses light.

1604 Johannes Kepler

He built the reflecting telescope, which used mirrors instead of lenses to focus light.

Isaac Newton

He built powerful single-lens microscopes capable of magnifying objects up to 300 times.

1683 Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

He published Opticks, a major scientific work explaining important concepts about light, color, reflection, and refraction.

1704 Isaac Newton

He created the first practical achromatic lens. This lens combined two types of glass to correct chromatic aberration

1758 John Dollond

He invented bifocal spectacles, allowing people to see both near and distant objects with a single pair of glasses

1784 Benjamin Franklin

He discovered ultraviolet radiation. He passed sunlight through a prism to separate the colors of the spectrum and placed silver chloride paper beyond the violet end.

1801 Johann Wilhelm Ritter

He performed the double-slit experiment by shining light through two narrow slits onto a screen.

1801 Thomas Young