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Ptolemy born in Alexandria, Egypt
Was a Greco-Egyptian writer of Alexandria. He was known as a mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet of single epigram in the greek analogy. -
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Ptolemy presents details for planetary motions.
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Jan 1, 776
First Olympic Games
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Feb 19, 1473
Copernicus born in Torun, Poland
He was a polyglot and polymath, obtaining a decorate in canon law, and also practising as a physicain, classics scholar, translator, governor, diplllomat and economist. he also formulated Gresham's law -
Jan 1, 1543
Copernicus states sun center of universe.
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Feb 15, 1564
Galileo born in Pisa, Italy
He was an Italian astronomer, physicist, mathemetician, engineer, and philosopher who played a major role in the scientific revolution during the Renaissance. He is widely heralded as one of the greatest scienticts of all time. -
Dec 27, 1571
Kepler born in Weil der Stadt, Germany
A key figure in the 17th century scientific revolution. He is best known for his laws of planetary motion based on his works, Astronomia nova, Harmonices Mundi, and Epitome of Copernican Astronomy. These works also provided one of the foundations of Isaac Newton's universal gravitation. -
Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion
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English Pilgrims found Plymouth Colony
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Galileo explains concept of inertia in his principle of relativity.
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Newton born in Woolsthorpe, England
He was one of the most influencial scientists of all times. As a key figure in the scientific revolution, his book Philosophiae Maturalis Principia Mathematica, first published in 1687 laid the foundations for classical mechanics. Newton made seminal contributions to optics. -
Newton develops reflecting telescope
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U.S. Declaration of Independence
U.S. declared independence from Great Britain. -
First Railroad in U.S.
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War of 1812
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Curie born in Warsaw, Poland
She was a Polish, and naturalized French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel prize, the first and only woman to win twice, the only person to win twice in multiple sciences, and was part of the Curie family legacy of five Nobel prizes. -
Einstien born in Ulm, Germany
Was a German born theoretical physicist. His work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science. He developed the general theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics. He recieved the 1921 Nobel prize in physics. -
Bohr born in Copenhagen, Denmark
Was a Danish physicist who made foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory for which he received the Nobel prize in physics in 1922. Bohr was also a philosopher and a promoter of science research. -
Schrodinger born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary
He was a Nobel prize winning Austrian physict who developed a number of fundamental results in the field of quantum theory which formed the basis of wave mechanics. He formulated the wave equation. -
Curie discovers elements Polonium and Radium
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Bohr develops Bohr model of the atom.
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World War I Begins
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Einstein develops Theory of General Relativity
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Schrodinger's equation
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Aristotle born in Stagirus, Greece.
At eighteen, he joined Plato's Acadeny in athen and remained there until he was thirty seven. his writing covered many subjects. Physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logics, ethics, aethetics, poetry, theater, music, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, and government. -
Aristotle's Theory of Motion outlined in "Physics" between 322 and 384.