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Period: 276 BCE to 195 BCE
Ertaosthenes
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Period: 85 to 165
Ptolemy's Life
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Period: Feb 19, 1473 to May 24, 1543
Copernicus
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1514
Copernicus publishes the Little Commentary explaining his heliocentric theory
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1532
Copernicus completes On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres
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1541
Copernicus agrees to publish On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres with the support of mathematician friend, Georg Rheticus, a professor at the University of Wittenberg, in Germany
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Period: Feb 15, 1564 to
Galileo
had a lasting relationship with Marina Gamba and had 3 children but never married -
Period: 1581 to
Galileo studies at the University of Pisa
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Galileo began teaching mathematics at the University of Pisa
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Galileo begins teaching at the University of Padua
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Galileo publishes Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
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Galileo is convicted of heresy and sentenced to house arrest
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Galileo publishes Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations
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Period: to
Newton
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Newton published “Mathematical Peinciples of Natural Philosophy”
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Newton was made president of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge
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Newton published “Opticks”
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Period: to
Mendeleev
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Mendeleev wrote "Organic Chemistry"
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Period: to
Marie Curie
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Mendeleev published the first edition of "Principles of Chemistry" about inorganic chemistry
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Mendeleev had a dream of the periodic table
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Mendeleev's idea of the periodic table are stolen by Julius Lother Meyer
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Period: to
Wegener
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Period: to
Hess
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Wegener discovered South America match perfectly against the west coast of Africa
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Wegener co-wrote "The Thermodynamics of the Atmosphere" textbook
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Wegener published "The Origin of Continents and Oceans"
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Wegener attended an international conference in New York where others mocked his ideas
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Hess published "History of Ocean Basins" about his theory of seafloor spreading