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The Scientific Revolution occurs in Europe around this period, greatly accelerating the progress of science and contributing to the rationalization of the natural sciences. 16th century: Gerolamo Cardano solves the general cubic equation (by reducing them to the case with zero quadratic term).
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190–150 BCE – Seleucus: Support of heliocentrism based on reasoning [4] 220–150 BCE – Apollonius: and Hipparchus: Invention of Astrolabe; 205–86 BCE – Hipparchus or unknown: Antikythera mechanism an analog computer of planetary motions; 129 BCE – Hipparchus: Hipparchus star catalog of the entire sky [5] and precession of the equinoxes
The dinosaur lived 150 million years ago in the late Jurassic period, making it millions of years older than the terrifying Tyrannosaurus rex that roamed the Earth some 66 million to 68 million ...
The Scientific Revolution was a series of events that marked the emergence of modern science during the early modern period, when developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology (including human anatomy) and chemistry transformed the views of society about nature.
Scientific illustrators represent visually aspects of science, particularly observations of the natural world. The emphasis in scientific illustration is on accuracy and utility, rather than on aesthetics, although scientific illustrators are skilled artists and often known for aesthetic values. Scientific illustration was an important part of ...
To celebrate the running of the 150th Kentucky Derby, the Courier Journal is digging deep into our archives and creating a keepsake coffee table book.
Image credits: Photoglob Zürich As evident from Niépce's and Maxwell's experiments, and as photographic process historian Mark Osterman told Bored Panda, the processes behind colored photographs ...