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Famous for his labyrinths in Greek Mythology, Daedalus is also the inventor of many carpentry tools. He was the first sculptor to make figurines with movable limbs. His humongous maze for holding in place the Minotaur and the wings made out of feathers and wax used my Icarus and Daedalus to escape from Crete. -
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Mathematician and Musician, Archytas harmonic theory is influenced by a mathematic and pitagorean harmonics. He also contributed with the structure of musical scales. HIs contributions of the mathematics of music and harmonics describe music intervals. -
The Inka empire left us clues to their cultures in a stringed device called the Khipus. They communicated narratives and complex mathematics through a series of stringed knots. Today we still unable to designer the mysteries of Khipus. Made out of camelid, fleece and cotton the Inka
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With Johanes Kepler discovery of the earth and planets elliptical orbit around the sun our views of the night cosmos changed. With his laws of planetary motion, Kepler explains how every planet has a single elliptical motion around the sun, accelerating as it nears the sun and decelerating when it is farther. -
Before Nicolaus Copernicus revolutionized the way we observe the night sky, our vies of the universe where limited. Four physical elements -earth, fire, water and wind and earth in the center of the universe. -
With the evolution of mathematics Physics helped our understanding of our universe. Isaac Newton theory of universal gravity says that every particle in the universe attracts every other particle through the force of gravity. Newton also came in to calculus in his studies of geometry and physics investigation.
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Mathematician and natural philosopher, Châtelet concentrated her studies around Newton, Leibniz and Christian Wolf. Influenced by Voltaire and several members of the Bernoulli family. -
Invented to help remove water form the mines by pumping it out with steam. Thomas Newcomen, a blacksmith from England. assembled the first prototype for the modern steam engine. -
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Communications saw a big leap with the invention of telegraph. Before it's inventions the printing press could take months for the information to travel. For the first time in history you could communicate over a vast distance fast. Serving as the precursor to telephone and radio waves, the telegraph helps improve our politics, economics and military exercises. -
Introducing the concept of infinite numbers and discovered the cardinal numbers.
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Alfred Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer and philanthropist. His work on explosives helped create bigger explosions safer. Nobel's detonator used a small charge of black power in the wooden pug to detonate a more powerful charge of nitroglycerin inside a metal container. -
Graham, L., & Kantor, J. (2006). A Comparison of Two Cultural Approaches to Mathematics: France and Russia, 1890–1930. Isis, 97(1), 56–74. https://doi.org/10.1086/501100 Detlefsen, Karen, "Émilie du Châtelet", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2018 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2018/entries/emilie-du-chatelet/.