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Katlynn- History of Science

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  • Period: 384 BCE to 322 BCE

    Aristotle

    Aristotle believed that four classical elements make up everything in the terrestrial spheres: earth, air, fire and water. He also held that the heavens are made of a special weightless and incorruptible (i.e. unchangeable) fifth element called "aether".
  • Period: 322 BCE to 180 BCE

    Time Keeping in the Americas

    India: Hinduism,Buddhism,Juinism and Ajivika-Isnt around anymore
    Panini wrote a book on grammer listing almost 4,000 rules!
    *Covered Phonetics, meter, semantics, Etymology-Everything about the language.
    *The Maurya Empire- Dynasty founded lasted from 322-180 BCE
    *Medical Textbook Charaka samhita
    -It lists 300 bones, 500 muscles, 210 joints and 70 vessels in the human body- Before 200 CE
  • Period: 980 to 1200

    Science in Middle Ages Europe

    1200 CE-Trota of salerno wrote practical medicine and treatments of women: “The Trotola ensemble” which became foundational to Gynecology and other topics related.
    All Time-Greatest hits of medical education was “Al-Qanun fi al-Tibb” or The canon of medicine
    Persian polymath “Ibn Sina”-Born in 980
    Introduction to Aristotle's physics for 600 years
    To prepare treatments you will have to learn a lot about plants, minerals and animals.
  • Period: 1089 to 1179

    St. Hildegard

    *Saint Hildegard of Bingen also known as Saint Hildegard, and Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, Benedictine abbess, visionary, and polymath. *She wrote theological, botanical and medicinal texts, as well as letters, liturgical songs, and poems, while supervising miniature illuminations in the Rupertsberg manuscript of her first work, Scivias.
  • Period: 1300 to

    Renaissance

    Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) The heliocentric theory is important today, because it led to the advancement and accuracy in astronomical tools, both physical and mathematical and changed the way scientists understand the design of our solar system.
  • Period: 1550 to

    Scientific Revolution

    Johannes Kepler 1571-1630
    A German mathematician and astronomer who discovered that the Earth and planets travel about the sun in elliptical orbits. He gave three fundamental laws of planetary motion. He also did important work in optics and geometry.

  • History of Science

    History of Science
    Circulation of Blood - William Harvey

  • History

    History
    -Theory of Gravity
    -Invention of the Telescope

  • Industrial Revolution- Britain

    Industrial Revolution- Britain
    The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in Europe and the United States, in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.

  • 18th century in History

    -Early Railways -Theory of evolution by natural selection- Darwin -Photography Invented

  • Charles Robert Darwin

    Charles Robert Darwin
    DOB: 1809 DOD:1882
    • He was an English naturalist, Geologist and Biologist. He is best known for his contributions to the science evolution

  • 100 BP/ 1900

    100 BP/ 1900
    *First Powered Flight *Theory of special Relativity

  • 50-60 BP/ 1970

    50-60 BP/ 1970
    • First fully Electronic Computer ENIAC
  • Period: to

    40-50BP/1980

    *Structure of DNA-> Watson & Crick *First Human in Orbit-> Gagarin