History of Science

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  570 BCE

  Pythagoras born

• 520 BCE

  Thales explains Natural Phenomena

  

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  469 BCE

  Socrates develops the Socratic Method

• 440 BCE

  Leucippus Helps Develop Atomism

  

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  440 BCE

  Hippocrates Founds Western Medicine

• 420 BCE

  Democritus Expands on Atomic Theory

  

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  387 BCE

  Plato Founded the Academy

• 280 BCE

  Herophilus Studies Comparative Anatomy

  

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  260 BCE

  Archimedes Measures Density of Objects

• 240 BCE

  Eratosthenes Measures the Earth's Circumference

  

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  134 BCE

  Hipparchus Predicts the Length of a Year

• 144

  Galen - Foundation of Medicine

  

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  335 BCE

  Aristotle, foundational to Western Civilization

• 476

  Aryabhata - The great mathematician and Astronomer

  

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  1000

  Alhazen Publishes "Book of Optics"

• 1027

  Avicenna – Central Asian Polymath

  

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  1220

  Robert Grossteste – A Founder of Scientific Thought

• 1267

  Roger Bacon - A Founder of Modern Science

  

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  1440

  Gutenberg invents the printing press

• 1486

  Dias Sails Around Africa

  

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  1512

  Copernicus Puts the Sun at the Center of the Universe

• 1537

  Vesalius - Founder of Modern Anatomy

  

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  1545

  Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia – Solving the Cubic Equation

• 1562

  Fallopio Studies the Female Reproductive System

  

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  1583

  Bruno's Infinite Universe

• 1590

  Jansen and the 1st Telescope

  

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  1620

  Sir Francis Bacon- a founder of modern Science.

• 1621

  Snell Discovers the Law of Refraction

  

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  1621

  Galileo Describes Acceleration

• 1638

  Descartes invents the Cartesian coordinate system

  

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  1662

  Boyle's Law

• 1665

  Hooke Names and Describes Cells

  

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  1666

  Newton's Law of Gravitation

• 1668

  Redi Disproves Spontaneous Generation

  

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  1683

  Van Leeuwenhoek Discovers Microorganisms

• 1687

  Newton Outlines Laws of Motion

  

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  1690

  Locke's "Tabula Rasa"

• 1738

  Bernoulli Describes Fluid Dynamics

  

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  1742

  Celsius Invents the Temperature Scale

• 1753

  Linnaeus Founds Taxonomy

  

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  1780

  First Thermodynamics Experiments

• 1781

  Frederick William Herschel – Discoverer of Uranus

  

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  1781

  Steam Engine

• 1786

  Coulomb Discovers Electrostatic Forces

  

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  1789

  Lavoisier Produces Controlled Chemical Reactions

• 1794

  E. Darwin and Natural Selection

  

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  1794

  Cotton Gin – A mechanical device for removing seeds from cotton fiber

• 1795

  Hutton Detemines the Earth's Age

  

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  1796

  Jenner Invents Vaccination

• 1796

  Laplace Expands on the Nebular Hypothesis

  

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  1801

  Piazzi Discovers an Asteroid

• 1801

  Dalton's Law of Partial Pressures

  

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  1808

  Dalton's Modern Atomic Theory

• 1809

  Lamarckian Inheritance

  

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  1811

  Avogadro Measures the Weight of Gases

• 1820

  Ampere Discovers Electromagnetism

  

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  1822

  Louis Pasteur – Best known for pasteurization

• 1831

  Faraday Discovers Electromagnetic Induction

  

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  1839

  Vulcanization

• 1842

  The Doppler Effect

  

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  1851

  Foucault and the Earth's pendulum

• 1855

  Bessemer process

  

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  1856

  Neanderthal Fossils Found

• 1859

  Charles Robert Darwin-founder of modern Evolutionary Theory

  

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  1865

  Deiters Presents an Accurate Image of a Nerve Cell

• 1867

  Antiseptic – An Invention of Dr. Joseph Lister

  

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  1876

  Bell Invents the Telephone

• 1878

  Flemming Describes Mitosis

  

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  1878

  Julius Ruchard Petri – Creating pure bacteriological cultiures

• 1879

  Arc Lamp – An invention by Charles F. Brush

  

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  1880

  Coal Extraction

• 1886

  1886 – Benz Patent Motor Car, the first vehicle powered by a gas engine

  

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  1900

  Airship – An invention of Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin

• 1903

  Wright Brothers First Flight

  

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  1903

  Marie Curie – Only person to win noble prizes in multiple sciences

• 1905

  Einstein goes under without Ether

  

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  1912

  Henrietta Leavitt discovers period-luminosity relationship in astronomy

• 1921

  Loewi and the chemical transmission of nerves

  

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  1925

  Edwin Hubble an ever receding horizon

• 1926

  Baird Invents the Television

  

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  1928 - 1945

  Fleming Discovers Penicillin

• 1929

  Hubble Proves the Universe is Expanding

  

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  1941

  Hedy Lamarr Not just another pretty face

• 1947

  Breaking the Sound Barrier

  

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  1950

  Rocket Engine Development

• 1952

  Salk Produces Polio Vaccine

  

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  1953

  Watson and Crick Describe the Structure of DNA

• 1957

  Sputnik 1, 1st Satellite Launched

  

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  1957

  Cloud Seeding

• 1962

  Rachel Carson Publishes "Silent Spring"

  

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  1969

  Moon Landing

• 1971

  NASA Mars Rover

  

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  1974

  "Lucy" Fossil Found

• 1980

  Smallpox Eradicated

  

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  1980

  Alvarez and the K-T Extinction

• 1992

  The Internet and the World Wide Web

  

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  1994

  "Ardi" Fossil Found

• 2003

  "Hobbit" Fossil Found

  

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  2003

  Human Genome Mapped