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Feb 13, 1540
Francois Viete
This invention "Analytical Trigonometry" was necessary for the study of physics and astronomy.
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Sep 29, 1543
Scientific Revolution
historical changes in thought & belief, to changes in social & institutional organization, that unfolded in Europe between roughly 1550-1700; beginning with Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543), who asserted a heliocentric (sun-centered) cosmos, it ended with Isaac Newton (1642-1727), who proposed universal laws and a Mechanical Universe. -
Feb 1, 1550
John Napier
John Napier Publishes Description of the Marvelous Canon of Logarithms .Logarithms invention as an aid to calculation is attributed to John Napier in his Mirifici logarithmorum canonis description.
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Galileo Galilei Demonstrates the Properties of Gravity
Galileo produced little theory and at times took a Newton black-box position as in saying the cause of gravity was of no immediate importance, maybe from fear of persecution or from failure to produce any satisfying gravity theory from the simple greek-Atomist push-physics theory that he generally adopted
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Evangelista Torricelli
Invention of the barometer this idea of using a heavier liquid then water was probably not Torricelli's own and Galileo himself may have suggested that other substances (including wine and mercury) would stop at a higher or lower level than water did. Regardless of who came up with the idea
Julian Trubin. (n.d.). The Invention of the Barometer. Retrieved August 15, 2016, from http://www.juliantrubin.com/bigten/torricellibarometer.html -
The Novum Organum
The title is a reference to Aristotle's work Organon, which was his treatise on logic and syllogism. In Novum Organum, Bacon details a new system of logic he believes to be superior to the old ways of syllogism. This is now known as the Baconian method.
F. (n.d.). The novum Organum Scientiarum. Retrieved August 15, 2016, from http://eva.universidad.edu.uy/pluginfile.php/508835/mod_resource/content/1/Bacon_Novum_Organum.pdf -
Dialogue on the two Chief Systems of World
He is comparing the Copernican system with the Ptolemaic system
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Dialogues concerning Two New Sciences
... Furthermore we may remark that any velocity once imparted to a moving body will be rigidly maintained as long as the external causes of acceleration or retardation are removed ..."
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Otto von Guericke Invents the Air Pump
The piston-type vacuum pump was invented by Otto von Guericke (1602-1686) in the course of a series of experiments on the production and effects of a vacuum.
Kenyon. (n.d.). Vacuum Pump. Retrieved August 15, 2016, from http://physics.kenyon.edu/EarlyApparatus/Pneumatics/Vacuum_Pump/Vacuuum_Pump.html -
The Royal Society of London is Officially Organized by King Charles II
he Royal Society brings together the greatest minds of the region in efforts to advance science through cooperation. Similar societies subsequently spring up throughout Europe, creating an intellectual network, which produces many of the scientific advances of the later seventeenth century.
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Royal Society
when 12 men met after a lecture at Gresham College, London, by Christopher Wren (then professor of astronomy at the college) and resolved to set up “a Colledge for the promoting of Physico-Mathematicall Experimentall Learning.” Those present included the scientists Robert Boyle and Bishop John Wilkins and the courtiers Sir Robert Moray and William, 2nd Viscount Brouncker.
M. (n.d.). Royal Society. Retrieved August 15, 2016, from https://global.britannica.com/topic/Royal-Society -
Isaac Newton Publishes Philosophia Naturalis Principia Mathematica
The Principia represents the integration of the works of all of the great astronomers who preceded Newton
University of Cambridge. (n.d.). Newton Papers. Retrieved August 15, 2016, from http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/PR-ADV-B-00039-00001/1
