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Period: Oct 30, 1500 to
Science Accomplishment Timeline
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1543
De humani corporis fabrica
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_humani_corporis_fabrica Andreas Vesalius inaugurated the modern era of Western medicine with his seminal human anatomy treatise De humani corporis fabrica, which was based on dissection of corpses. -
1543
Copernican heliocentrism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernican_heliocentrism
Copernican heliocentrism is the astronomical model developed by Nicolaus Copernicus and published in 1543. This model positioned the Sun at the center of the Univers. -
1544
William Gilbert discovers Earth's magnetic field
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gilbert_(physicist)
William Gilbert discovers Earth's magnetic field
he concluded that the Earth was itself magnetic and that this was the reason compasses point north (previously, some believed that it was the pole star (Polaris) or a large magnetic island on the north pole that attracted the compass) -
Galileo observes the moon's surface
http://galileo.rice.edu/sci/observations/moon.html
With his telescope, Galileo saw not only the "ancient" spots but many smaller ones never seen before. In these smaller spots, he saw that the width of the dark lines defining them varied with the solar illumination angle. -
Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_motu_cordis Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus (An Anatomical Exercise on the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Living Beings) is the best-known work of the physician William Harvey. -
Sir Issac Newton -Law of Gravity
Sir Issac Newton discovered the Law of Gravity. This is seen to be the start of Modern Astronomy. https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/features/yba/CygX1_mass/gravity/more.html
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Carl Linnaeus created taxonomic system
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus (23 May[note 1] 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement as About this sound Carl von Linné (help·info),[1] was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern biological naming scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology. Many of his writings were in Latin, and his name is rendered in Latin -
Marie Curie wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Marie won the 1911 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her discovery of the elements polonium and radium, using techniques she invented for isolating radioactive isotopes. -
Mary Golda Ross First Native American Aerospace Engineer
https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/mary-g-ross-aerospace-engineer Mary Walker was a suffragist, prohibitionist, war hero, and pioneering physician.
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Robert Hooke published the seminal Micrographia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micrographia Micrographia is a historic book by Robert Hooke, detailing the then thirty-year-old Hooke's observations through various lenses. Published in September 1665, the first major publication of the Royal Society, it was the first scientific best-seller, inspiring a wide public interest in the new science of microscopy. It is also notable for coining the biological term cell. -
Nobel Prize in Chemistory for CRISPR
Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna will receive the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering one of gene technology’s sharpest tools: the CRISPR
https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/jennifer-doudna-and-emmanuelle-charpentier-win-2020-nobel-prize-chemistry
