Gerardo history of science timeline

  • use of stone tools
    3300 BCE

    use of stone tools

    Early Stone Age began with the most basic stone implements made by early humans
  • Period: 500 BCE to 1500 BCE

    Science in Middle Ages Europe

    1. Based metals as planets( silver=the moon, gold = the sun)
    2. Cathedrals were great churches made of stone
    3. The cathedrals time era was a great economic growth in Europe
    4. The Black death a plague that wiped out half of Europe during 1348 to 1350
    5. Killed around 75 to 200 million people
  • Period: 428 BCE to 348 BCE

    Beginning of time

    Knowledge comes from asking questions
    Timaeus in which Socrates talks about the nature of the universe.
    Plato taught Pythagoras-inspired idealism, or a theory of nature based on perfect abstractions rules of which real-world stuff could only ever be imperfect examples
    Plato’s theory of the heavens stated that the wandering stars—that is, the planets—followed a path of uniform circular motion
    Aristotle used physical sensations: hot and cold, dry and wet, to explain everything:
  • Period: 400 BCE to 1 BCE

    Ancient China

    I have learned that during the middle eval times China was actually a hydraulic civilization. Also during the times between 400 to 0 BCE the Chinese scholars measured the length of the solar universe.
  • Iron age
    332 BCE

    Iron age

    The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three-age division of the prehistory and protohistory of humanity
  • Period: 1098 to 1179

    Saint Hildegard of Bingen

    Born in 1098 in Bermersheim
    Died in 1179 in Rupertsberg
    She wrote theological, botanical and medicinal texts
    She made three great volumes of visionary theology
    Several manuscripts of her work were produced such as illustrated Rupertsberg
    also wrote Physica, a text on the natural sciences
  • Period: 1300 to

    Renaissance

    The Renaissance was a period in European history marking the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity and covering the 15th and 16th centuries.
  • Period: 1473 to 1543

    Nicolaus Copernicus

    Nicolaus Copernicus was a Polish astronomer known as the father of modern astronomy. He was the first modern European scientist to propose that Earth and other planets revolve around the sun, or the Heliocentric Theory of the universe.
  • Period: 1550 to

    Scientific Revolution

    The Scientific Revolution was a series of events that marked the emergence of modern science during the early modern period, when developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology and chemistry transformed the views of society about nature
  • Theory of gravity

    Theory of gravity

    Newtons law of gravity is stated that every particle attracts every other particle in the universe with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses
  • Industrial Revolution

    Industrial Revolution

    Transition to new manufacturing processes in Europe and the United States
  • First power of flight

    First power of flight

    Wilbur and Orville Wright made four brief flights at Kitty Hawk with their first powered aircraft
  • Structure of DNA

    Structure of DNA

    Watson and Crick determined the double-helix structure of DNA
  • First man on the moon

    First man on the moon

    Armstrong and Aldrin were astronauts on Apollo 11 and landed on the moon in the Lunar Module