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Period: Feb 19, 1473 to May 24, 1543
Nicolaus Copernicus
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Jan 1, 1543
Copernicus publishes Heliocentric theory
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Period: Dec 14, 1546 to
Tycho Brahe
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Period: Feb 15, 1564 to
Galileo Galilei
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Period: Dec 27, 1571 to
Johannes Kepler
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Nov 11, 1572
Brahe discoverse supernova in Cassiopeia
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Brahe Proves Comets Move Beyond Moon
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Brahe Publishes his own Model
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Galileo observes Jupiter's Moons
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Kepler's First and Second Laws Announced
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Galileo Uses First Telescope
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Galileo Observes Saturn's Rings
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Galileo Observes Lunar Craters
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Galileo Observes Venus's Phases
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Kepler Publishes Third Law
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Galileo Publishes concept of Basic Relativity
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Period: to
Isaac Newton
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Newton Establishes that Spectrum is Components of White Light
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Newton Constructs First Reflecting Telescope
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Newton Develops Particle Theoy of Light
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Romer Measures Speed of Light (inaccurate)
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Newton publishes Theory of Universal Gravitation
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Newton publishes Laws of Motion
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William Herschel Discovers Infrared Radiation
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Johann Ritter Discovers Ultraviolet Region
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John Dalton Proposes Billiard Ball Model
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John Herschel and Fox Talbot discover Emission Spectrum
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David Brewster Explains Dark Line Spectrum As Light Absorption
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Maxwell Equations
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Heinrich Hertz Discovers Radiowaves
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Wilhelm Rontgen discovers X-Rays
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JJ Thomson Proposes Plum Pudding Model
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Ernest Rutherford Proposes Solar System Model
Gold Foil Experiment -
Paul Villard Discovers Gamma Rays
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Max Planck Proposes Formula for Black-Body Radiaiton
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Einstein Proposes Photoelectric Effect
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Niels Bohr Explains Hydrogen Spectrum (Shell Model)
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Louis deBroglie Proposes Electron Wave Model
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Schrodinger Proposes Quantum Mechanical Model
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First Lunar Flyby
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First Lunar Crash
Luna 2 -
First View of Far Side of Moon
Luna 3 -
First Lunar Landing
Luna 9 -
First Humans on Moon
Apollo 11 -
First Lunar Sample Return
Luna 16 -
First Lunar Rover
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