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546 BCE
Thales of Miletus
He was the first philosopher of the physis. He decided that the arché is the water -
444 BCE
Empedocles of Akragas
Anything can emerge from nothing and what exists cannot dissappear -
370 BCE
Democritus
The universe is composed for emptiness and atoms in different entities -
322 BCE
Aristotle
He designed and registered the first classification of living things -
230 BCE
Aristarchus
Heliocentric theory -
165 BCE
Claudius Ptolemy
He rectified the Aristotelian system -
1543
Nicolas Copernicus
He resumed the proposal of the heliocentric theory -
Francis Bacon
He compared rationalism and empiricism like ants and spiders and introduce the 'bees' like a combination of both -
Galileo Galilei
Pioneer of the experimental scientific method and he was the first to use the reflecting telescope -
Blaise Pascal
The reason over experience. He gave importance to emotions. -
Robert Boyle
Pioneer in the area of chemistry -
John Locke
"The reason by itself is empty and any idea must come from experience lineked to it to be reliable" -
Isaac Newton
He found the deterministic laws of the great gear of the Universe -
George Berkeley
He said that empiricism was the only way -
David Hume
Actual empiricism symbol -
Emmanuel Kant
Human knowledge is just possible by the interaction between experience and reason -
John Dalton
Proposed that everything is made up of atoms that are combined to create molecules -
Charles Darwin
His theory is about the biological evolution by natural selection -
Louis Pasteur
Refutes conclusively the spontaneous generation theory -
Gregor Mendel
Laws og genetic heritage -
Marie Curie
Discovers radioactive elements radium and polonium -
Albert Einstein
Theory of relativity. he explained the photoelectric effect -
Niels Bohr
presentrs his atom model -
James Watson and Francis Crick
Discover the double helix structure of DNA -
Soviet Union
Launched Sputnik 1, which wicj was the first artificial satellite in history -
Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell
The Dolly sheep is cloned -
United States
The first draft of the human genome is completed -
NASA
Existence of water in Mars