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Ptolemy's Birth
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Period: 85 to 165
Ptolemy
One of the main things that influenced Ptolemy's work was his access to the library of Alexandria, one of the greatest libraries to ever exist. This gave him access to books by Aristotle and Hipparchus. Ptolemy was influenced by Aristotle's Geocentric theory and Hipparchus' understanding of orbits. He used these to accurately determine positions of celestial bodies. -
Period: 100 to 165
Ptolemy was able to accurately predict the position of celestial bodies in the sky.
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Period: 100 to 165
Geocentric Model
Ptolemy Came up with his Theory about the Earth being the Center of the universe with everything else orbiting around it. (no exact date is known). -
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Ptolemy's Book
Ptolemy Wrote his book about all of his findings, if it wasn't for this, we might not know as much as we do about astronomy back then. -
Feb 19, 1473
Nicholas Copernicus born
Nicholas Copernicus born February 19, 1473 in what is now the
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Copernicus started his studies at universities in Poland and Italy
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1503
Copernicus finished his studies at university
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1510
He moved to what is now Frombork
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1514
He had written a report that circulated his friends, called the Little Commentary, introducing his ideas on his heliocentric model
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1520
Copernicus has the rebuild his town with the other canons due to the Teutonic Knights
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1532
He finished the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres but holds back before publishing it
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May 24, 1543
Copernicus dies peacefully after knowing the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres was published
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Feb 15, 1564
Galileo's Birth
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Galileo Becomes a Math Teacher
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Galileo Published his "Letters on Sunspots"
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Galileo was Charged with "vehement suspicion of heresy”
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Galileo's Death
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Issac Newton was born on January 4 in Lincolnshire, England
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He attended Cambridge University
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He became a professor of Mathematics at Cambridge
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He published his most important book that was written in Latin, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
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He became the president of Royal Society until he passed away
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Newton then published Opticks
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Newton died March 31, 1727 in London
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Darwin’s was born on February 12, 1809 in Shrewsbury, United Kingdom
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Dmitri Mendeleev was born in Siberia, Russia as the youngest in a family of 14 or more, and died in St. Petersburg.
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Darwin discovered evolution and published his book “Orgin of species” which was 490 pages.
“Theology was eventually able to adjust to a heliocentric Universe, so it can now adjust to evolution.”( John F. Haught is a Roman Catholic theologian and senior research fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University, in Washington, D.C. He is the author of numerous books, including Science and Faith:
A New Introduction (Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2012)).
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Mendeleev's Influencers
For the first time, in 1860, many chemists meet at a convention, while many names are unknown, Mendeleev was influenced by their works. At the convention, the chemists decided atomic weight for each element, based off of the lightest and first one, hydrogen. By 1864, 50 elements were recorded and known. -
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Mendeleev's Book
Mendeleev writes and publishes his textbook titled "Organic Chemistry", and wins the Domidov Prize for it, one of the most prestigious awards at the time. -
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Mendeleev's teachings and chemistry.
In 1866, Mendeleev becomes a professor at the university of St. Petersburg. In 1868, he helps in the founding of the Russian Chemical society, and publishes his first edition of "Principles of chemistry". -
Maria Sklowdowska was born in Warsaw, Poland
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Alfred Lothar Wegener was born in Berlin
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She moved to Paris to study at the Sorbonne
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Darwin died on April 19, 1882 in Down House, Downe, United Kingdom
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Was the first woman to earn a physics degree from the Sorbonne - Marie
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Married Pierre Curie - Marie
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Began her work on radioactivity - Marie
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Announced discovery of radium and polonium - Marie
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Shared the Nobel Prize in physics with Pierre Curie and Antoine Henri Becquerel - Marie
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Wegener - He got his PhD in astronomy from the University of Berlin
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Her husband, Pierre Curie, died - Marie
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Wegener - Kurt, his brother, and him made the world record for longest time spent in a balloon
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Harry Hammond Hess was born
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Wengener noticed on a world map that the east coast of South America fits exactly against the west coast of Africa
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Received second Nobel Prize in chemistry - Marie
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Wegener - he co-wrote with Vladimir Köppen, The Thermodynamics of the Atmosphere, a textbook that became popular
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Wegener married Köppen’s daughter Else
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“Provides mobile X-ray service for wounded soldiers in World War I; the Radium Institute opens in Paris” (Venezia, Mike. Marie Curie: Scientist Who Made Glowing Discoveries. New York: Scholastic, 2009) - Marie
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Wegener - He published The Origin of Continents and Oceans, claiming that about 300 million years ago, the continents formed a single mass named “Pangaea,” which is a Greek word meaning “whole Earth.”
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Crick was born in Northampton, United Kingdom
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Rosalind was born in London, United Kingdom
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Wegener - He was a professor of meteorology and geophysics at the University of Graz
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Watson was born in Chicago, Illinois; still alive and 92 years old.
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Wegener - He led another expedition to Greenland, this time with government backing, where he would set up yearlong weather-monitoring equipment at three stations on the glacier
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Wegener - After celebrating his 50th birthday at the remote weather station, Wegener and his companion, Rasmus Villumsen, died on their return trip west to the coast
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Helped open the Radium Institute in her native Warsaw- Marie
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Marie died of leukemia
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Franklin discovered Photo 51, the X-ray diffraction images of DNA; helping Watson, Crick and Wilkins.
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Watson and Crick discovered DNA and the double helix.
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Crick discovered DNA with James Watson.
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Franklin passed away in the same place she was born.
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Hess - He dated ocean-core samples that showed that the ocean floor was younger at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge but progressively older in either direction, confirming his beliefs
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Hess published his theory in History of Ocean Basins, and was called “seafloor spreading.”
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Hess - He helped to plan the U.S. space program and died of a heart attack a month after a successful mission to bring the first humans to the surface of the Moon
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Crick passed away in San Diego, CA