The most significants events of astronomy.

  • Laws of Planetary Motion.

    Laws of Planetary Motion.
    Johannes Kepler establishes his three Laws of Planetary Motion that describes the motion of the planets in the Solar System.
  • Astronomical Telescope.

    Galileo Galilei develops the astronomical telescope, powerful enough to identify moons orbiting Jupiter.
  • Principle of Relativity

    Principle of Relativity
    Galileo Galilei first describes the Principle of Relativity, the idea that the fundamental laws of physics are the same in all internal fames.
  • Light

    Light
    Isaac Newton argues that the light is composed of particles.
  • Principia

    Principia
    Isaac Newton publishes his "Principia", wich describes an infinite, steady, static universe in wich matter on the large scale is uniformly distribute.
  • Hierarchical universe

    Hierarchical universe
    Emanuel Swedenborg propose the hierarchical universe, still based on a Newtonian static universe.
  • Hierarchical universe

    Hierarchical universe
    Johann Henrich Lambert supportsnWrigt and Kant´s hierarchical universe.
  • Gravity

    Gravity
    John Michell proposes the theoretical idea of an object massive enough that is gravity.
  • Conservation of Mass

    Conservation of Mass
    Antonie-Laurent de Lavoiser define the states of the Law of Conservation of Mass.
  • Interference of Light

    Interference of Light
    Thomas Young demostrates, in his famous double-slit experiment, the interference of light.
  • Atomic theory

    Atomic theory
    John Dalton develops his atomyc theory, proposing that each chemical element is composed of attoms.
  • Electromagnetism

    Electromagnetism
    Michael Faraday concludes from his work on electromagnetism.
  • Louis Pasteu´s

    Louis Pasteu´s
    He experiments that the organisms such as bacteria and fungi do not appear of their own.
  • Magnetic fields

    Magnetic fields
    James Clerk demonstrates that electric and magnetic fields travel trough space in form of waves.
  • Matter

    Matter
    Henri Becquerel discovers that certain kinds of matter emit radiation of their own accord.