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1473
copernicus: born
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Period: 1473 to 1543
copernicus life
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1484
copernicus: father died
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1491
copernicus: began studying various universities in poland and italy
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1510
copernicus: moved to frauenburg
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1514
copernicus: began circulating his Little Commentary which introduced his heliocentric model
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1520
copernicus: works on rebuilding frombork with the other canons
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1532
copernicus: completes On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres but waits before publishing it
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1543
copernicus: died
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1564
galileo: born
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Period: 1564 to
galileos life
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1581
galileo: began studying at university of pisa
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galileo: began teaching at university of pisa
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galileo: began teaching at university of padua
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galileo: publishes dialogue concerning the two cheif world systems
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galileo: convicted of heresy and put on house arrest
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galileo: Publishes Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations
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galileo: died
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newton: born
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Period: to
newtons life
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newton: begins attending kings school at Grantham
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newton: begins attending cambridge university
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newton: goes to Woolsthorpe manor due to plague and fire in london
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newton: graduate studies at cambridge
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newton: professor of math at cambridge
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newton: publishes Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
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newton: Represents Cambridge University in the parliament that passes the Bill of Rights limiting the powers of William III and Mary II
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newton: Moves to London
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newton: Assumes the presidency of the Royal Society until his death
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newton: publishes Opticks
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newton: Knighted by Queen Anne
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newton: dies
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Mendeleev: born
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Period: to
Mendeleevs life
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Mendeleev: father dies
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Mendeleev: goes to st.petersburg with mother and sister
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Mendeleev: enrolls in pedagogical institute
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Mendeleev: mother and sister die
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Mendeleev: graduates as a science teacher
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Mendeleev: defends his master thesis in chemistry
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Mendeleev: publishes textbook
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Mendeleev: becomes a professor
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Mendeleev: devises the periodic table of elements
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Mendeleev: dismissed from his university teaching position
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Mendeleev: accepts post as directer of the Bureau of weights and measures
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Mendeleev: awarded the copley medal
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Mendeleev: died