The document describes key figures and developments of the Scientific Revolution. It introduced new ideas like Copernicus' heliocentric model, Kepler's laws of planetary motion, Galileo's support of Kepler through observations of Jupiter's moons, and Newton's laws of gravity and motion. Figures like Galileo, Descartes, Harvey, Hooke, and Vesalius advanced science through new empirical methods like experimentation and observation, replacing older mystical and tradition-based views of the natural world.