Scientific revolution or evolution

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  • 1938 BCE

    Precision instruments

    Precision instruments specifically for scientific use were invented, such as the telescope, microscope, barometer, thermometer, air pump, pendulum clock, and spring watch.
  • 1800 BCE

    Universal measurement

    At the end of the 18th century the French government held the first international scientific conference, intended to come up with a uniform, universal system of measurement
  • 1760 BCE

    Longitude

    In 1760 John Harrison, an English craftsman, produced H-4, a watch for keeping precise time at sea and therefore for measuring longitude.
  • 1700 BCE

    Statistics

    From the early 18th century, a growing population was seen as vital to a state’s future, so governments got into statistical estimations of the rates of birth, death, marriage etc.
  • 1700 BCE

    Spread of literature

    Publications and literacy spread in the 18th century
  • 1662 BCE

    Royal society

    The Royal Society For the Improvement of Natural Knowledge by Experiment was founded in London in1662.
  • 1573 BCE

    Supernova

    An obtrusively bright supernova appeared among the fixed stars in 1573
  • 1500 BCE

    Mathematics

    In the 16th century scholars used mathematics not only to describe, but to explain the workings of the physical world.
  • 1450 BCE

    Moveable metal type

    The invention of moveable metal type in Europe in the mid-15th century (a technique devised earlier in China and Korea) led to mass production of identical books and pamphlets.
  • 1450 BCE

    Math notations

    The mathematical notations “+” and “=” were introduced in the mid-1500's
  • 1400 BCE

    Astronomic tables

    In the 15 thcentury Muslim scientists in Samarkand (in today’s Uzbekistan) published new, more accurate astronomical tables, which were later introduced to Europe.
  • Period: 1400 BCE to 1500 BCE

    Renaissance artists

    Renaissance artists of the 15th -16th centuries studied anatomy and optics to help represent their subject accurately. They formulated basic rules of linear perspective as a way to represent three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional surface.
  • 1300 BCE

    Accurate maps

    Increasingly accurate maps were produced in Europe, influenced by Muslim maps and Ptolemy’s 2nd century CE Geography, which had become available in Europe in the 14th century.
  • Period: 1300 BCE to 1400 BCE

    Humanism

    Humanism emerged in the 14th and 15th centuries among the urbanized and commercial inhabitants of north Italian city-states
  • Period: 1300 BCE to 1400 BCE

    Decline of roman catholic church

    The power and prestige of the Roman Catholic Church declined in the 14th and 15th centuries
  • 1000 BCE

    Compass

    The mariners’ compass was probably introduced to Islam from China in the 11th century, and was familiar to Christian sailors in the Mediterranean by the end of the 12th century.
  • 1000 BCE

    Forbidden

    Repeated decrees by various religious authorities forbidding the teaching of particular books or topics in the universities were not successful
  • 900 BCE

    Paper making

    Knowledge of paper-making reached Islam through Chinese prisoners of war in the 10th century
  • 800 BCE

    Arabic numerals

    They were introduced to the Muslim world in the 9th century CE by al-Khwarizmi’s book The Hindu Art of Reckoning, which explained how to use them for calculating without an abacus
  • 1100

    Rise of trade

    In 12th and 13th century Europe, the rise of towns and longer-distance trade; the extension of royal power over wider geographical areas