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1781: William Herschel announces discovery of Uranus, expanding the known boundaries of the Solar System for the first time in modern history. 1785: William Withering: publishes the first definitive account of the use of foxglove for treating dropsy. 1787: Jacques Charles: Charles's law of ideal gases.
The nature of the history of science is a topic of debate (as is, by implication, the definition of science itself). The history of science is often seen as a linear story of progress [27] but historians have come to see the story as more complex. [28] [29] [30] Alfred Edward Taylor has characterised lean periods in the advance of scientific ...
1847: Ascanio Sobrero invents Nitroglycerin, the first explosive made that was stronger than black powder. 1848: Jonathan J. Couch invents the pneumatic drill. 1848: Linus Yale Sr. invents the first modern pin tumbler lock. 1849: Walter Hunt invents the first repeating rifle to use metallic cartridges (of his own design) and a spring-fed magazine.
The first such device was made by Otto von Guericke in 1654. ... History of science and technology in China; ... The Discovery of Modern Science (2015) ...
1021 – Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen) pioneers the experimental scientific method and experimental physics in his Book of Optics, where he devises the first scientific experiments on optics, including the first use of the camera obscura to prove that light travels in straight lines and the first experimental proof that visual perception is caused ...
The history of technology is the history of the invention of tools ... The Chinese made many first-known discoveries and developments. ... History of science and ...
Historians and sociologists have remarked the occurrence, in science, of "multiple independent discovery". Robert K. Merton defined such "multiples" as instances in which similar discoveries are made by scientists working independently of each other. [1] "Sometimes", writes Merton, "the discoveries are simultaneous or almost so; sometimes a ...
Banaras Hindu University has programs: one in History of Science and Technology at the Faculty of Science and one in Historical and Comparative Studies of the Sciences and the Humanities at the Faculty of Humanities. Andhra University has now set History of Science and Technology as a compulsory subject for all the First year B-Tech students.