THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION _ MODERN AGEVersión en línea THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION _ MODERN AGE por elvira lopez rivera 1 Galileo Galilei 2 Isaac Newton 3 Antonie van Leeuwenhoek He confirmed the theory of Nicolaus Copernicus that the Earth orbits the Sun. He developed a telescope. He confirmed that there are craters on the Moon. He developed the law of gravitation. It explained the movement of the planets in the universe He discovered that white light is composed of different colours He designed a single-lens microscope. He was the first to observe microorganisms.