-
-
In his observatory, Tycho Brahe made observations and collected astronomical data aided. This lasted at least twenty years he and his 48 assitants.
-
From the top of the leaning tower of Pisa, he made a demonstartion with a one-pound weight and a one hundred pound weight. He dropped them at the same time and they landed at the same time. This proved that the theory that an object's fall depended on it weight, was wrong.
-
Johannes Kepler's Astronmia Nova showed that Mars doesn't moves non-uniformly in an elliptical path and proposes a quasi-magnetic power or virtue emanating from the sun as partial explanation for the planetary motions.
-
The Roman church had banned his book for religious reasons. They believed that the Earth was atthe center of the universe becaus ethey believed God created it that way. However Copernicus believed the Sun was at the center.
-
Newton establishes the laws of motion, law of universal gravitaion, and basis for classical physics.
-
Edmond Halley determined that his comet would have an elongated elliptical orbit. He therefore argued it should be sumnbitted to Newtonian principles.
-
Sir Isaac Newton's health takes a turn for the worst. He collapses and borders on death. He shortly dies a Kensingtominister between 1:00 and 2:00a.m. He was burried in Westminister Abbey where he is burried April 4th and had a death mask made of him.
-
Medeleev creates the Periodic Table
-
Maxwell peroform's important research on color vision, molecular theory, and electromagnetic theory. The ideas underlying Maxwell's theories of electromagnetism describes the propagation of light waves in a vacuum.
-
Wilhelm Röntgen discovered xrays.
