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Johannes Kepler discovered the third law of planetary motion
The Law of Periods: The square of the period of any planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of its orbit. -
Galileo Galilei discovered the laws of falling body
The law deals with the falling of bodies. The law of parabolic fall claims that the distance traveled by a falling body is directly proportional to the square of the time it takes to fall. -
Evangelista Torricelli invented the mercury barometer
A mercury barometer is a scientific instrument used in meteorology to measure atmospheric pressure. -
Rober Hooke discovered the cell
The cell is the basic structural, functional, and biological unit of all the living organisms. -
Francesco Redi disproved the idea of spontaneous generation
Spontaneous generation or anomalous generation is an obsolete body of thought on the ordinary formation of living organisms without descent from similar organisms. -
Ole Rømer discovered how to measurement the speed of ligth
His method was based on observations of the eclipses of the moons of Jupiter. -
Joseph Black describes latent heat
A latent heat is the energy released by a body or a thermodynamic system, during a constant-temperature process. -
Mikhail Lomonosov discovered the atmosphere of Venus
The atmosphere of Venus is the layer of gases surrounding Venus composed by primarily of carbon dioxide and is much denser and hotter than that of Earth. -
Thomas Bayes publishes the first version of Bayes' theorem
Bayes’ theorem describes the probability of an event, based on conditions that might be related to the event. -
William Herschel discovered the Uranus,
It's the seventh planet from the sun with the third largest diameter in our solar system. -
Jacques Charles invented the Charle´s law of ideal gas
The ideal gas law is the equation of state of a hypothetical ideal gas. -
Hanaoka Seishū develops general anaesthesia
General anaesthesia or general anesthesia is a medically induced state of unconsciousness with loss of protective reflexes, resulting from the administration of one or more general anaesthetic agents. -
Georges Cuvier established extinction as a fact
Cuvier is also known for establishing extinction as a fact, at the time, extinction was considered by many of Cuvier's contemporaries to be merely controversial speculation. -
Alessandro Volta discovered the electrochemical series
The electrochemical series is built up by arranging various redox equilibria in order of their standard electrode potentials. -
William Herschel discovered the infrared radiation
Infrared radiation is a type of electromagnetic radiation like radio waves, ultraviolet radiation, X-rays and microwaves.
