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1400 BCE
Daedalus
Famous for his labyrinths in Greek Mythology, Daedalus is also the inventor of many carpentry tools. He was the first sculptor to make figurines with movable limbs. His humongous maze for holding in place the Minotaur and the wings made out of feathers and wax used my Icarus and Daedalus to escape from Crete. -
500 BCE
Medea
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400 BCE
Archytas
Mathematician and Musician, Archytas harmonic theory is influenced by a mathematic and pitagorean harmonics. He also contributed with the structure of musical scales. HIs contributions of the mathematics of music and harmonics describe music intervals. -
Period: 1400 to 1532
Inka Khipus
The Inka empire left us clues to their cultures in a stringed device called the Khipus. They communicated narratives and complex mathematics through a series of stringed knots. Today we still unable to designer the mysteries of Khipus. Made out of camelid, fleece and cotton the Inka -
1510
The new Astronomy
With Johanes Kepler discovery of the earth and planets elliptical orbit around the sun our views of the night cosmos changed. With his laws of planetary motion, Kepler explains how every planet has a single elliptical motion around the sun, accelerating as it nears the sun and decelerating when it is farther. -
Jan 1, 1542
Copernicus On the Revolution of the heavenly Spheres
Before Nicolaus Copernicus revolutionized the way we observe the night sky, our vies of the universe where limited. Four physical elements -earth, fire, water and wind and earth in the center of the universe. -
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Physics
With the evolution of mathematics Physics helped our understanding of our universe. Isaac Newton theory of universal gravity says that every particle in the universe attracts every other particle through the force of gravity. Newton also came in to calculus in his studies of geometry and physics investigation. -
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Advancements in Mathematics
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Émilie du Châtelet
Mathematician and natural philosopher, Châtelet concentrated her studies around Newton, Leibniz and Christian Wolf. Influenced by Voltaire and several members of the Bernoulli family. -
First steam engine
Invented to help remove water form the mines by pumping it out with steam. Thomas Newcomen, a blacksmith from England. assembled the first prototype for the modern steam engine. -
The spinning Jenny
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Invention of the Telegraph
Communications saw a big leap with the invention of telegraph. Before it's inventions the printing press could take months for the information to travel. For the first time in history you could communicate over a vast distance fast. Serving as the precursor to telephone and radio waves, the telegraph helps improve our politics, economics and military exercises. -
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Georg Cantor
Introducing the concept of infinite numbers and discovered the cardinal numbers. -
Elisha Otis elevator safety breaks
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Dynamite
Alfred Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer and philanthropist. His work on explosives helped create bigger explosions safer. Nobel's detonator used a small charge of black power in the wooden pug to detonate a more powerful charge of nitroglycerin inside a metal container. -
Resources
Graham, L., & Kantor, J. (2006). A Comparison of Two Cultural Approaches to Mathematics: France and Russia, 1890–1930. Isis, 97(1), 56–74. https://doi.org/10.1086/501100 Detlefsen, Karen, "Émilie du Châtelet", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2018 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2018/entries/emilie-du-chatelet/.