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1778: Antoine Lavoisier (and Joseph Priestley): discovery of oxygen leading to end of Phlogiston theory. 1781: William Herschel announces discovery of Uranus, expanding the known boundaries of the Solar System for the first time in modern history.
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.
This timeline lists significant discoveries in physics and the laws of nature, including experimental discoveries, theoretical proposals that were confirmed experimentally, and theories that have significantly influenced current thinking in modern physics. Such discoveries are often a multi-step, multi-person process.
Thus modern science in Europe was resumed in a period of great upheaval: the Protestant Reformation and Catholic Counter-Reformation; the discovery of the Americas by Christopher Columbus; the Fall of Constantinople; but also the re-discovery of Aristotle during the Scholastic period presaged large social and political changes.
An image from John Dalton's A New System of Chemical Philosophy, the first modern explanation of atomic theory.. This timeline of chemistry lists important works, discoveries, ideas, inventions, and experiments that significantly changed humanity's understanding of the modern science known as chemistry, defined as the scientific study of the composition of matter and of its interactions.
Extraordinary new scientific instruments are churning out trailblazing data, ready to reshape how scientists view the cosmos. A prime example is the European Space Agency’s wide-angle Euclid ...
Field Person/s considered "father" or "mother" Rationale Science (modern): Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) [1] Isaac Newton (1643–1727) [2] [3]: For systemic use of experimentation in science and contributions to scientific method, physics and observational astronomy.
In Concepts of Modern Physics Arthur Beiser starts with a definition of modern physics: [83] Modern physics began in 1900 with Max Planck’s discovery of the role of energy quantization in blackbody radiation, a revolutionary idea soon followed by Albert Einstein’s equally revolutionary theory of relativity and quantum theory of light.