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The chemical revolution was a period in the 18th century marked by significant advancements in the theory and practice of chemistry. Despite the maturity of most of the sciences during the scientific revolution, by the mid-18th century chemistry had yet to outline a systematic framework or theoretical doctrine.
By the mid-18th century, the Aufklärung (The Enlightenment) had transformed German high culture in music, philosophy, science, and literature. Christian Wolff was the pioneer as a writer who expounded the Enlightenment to German readers and legitimized German as a philosophic language.
3rd century BC: Archimedes calculates areas and volumes relating to conic sections, such as the area bounded between a parabola and a chord, and various volumes of revolution. [55] 3rd century BC: Archimedes discovers the sum/difference identity for trigonometric functions in the form of the "Theorem of Broken Chords". [45]
Rococo in the early 18th century. [6] Clavecin électrique, earliest surviving electric-powered musical instrument, in 1759 by Jean-Baptiste Thillaie Delaborde [7] Roulette was developed in 18th century France [8] from a primitive form created by Blaise Pascal (17th century). [9] In 1843, Louis and François Blanc introduced the single 0 style ...
The music of John Field ... resources of the Royal Navy to develop the Empire and make many scientific discoveries, ... the 18th century to the present (1968 ...
18th century: of the horse-drawn hoe and scarifier by Jethro Tull [2] [3] [4] 1780s: Selective breeding and artificial selection pioneered by Robert Bakewell (1725–1795). [5] 1842: Superphosphate or chemical fertilizer developed by John Bennet Lawes (1814–1900). [6] 1850s: Steam-driven ploughing engine invented by John Fowler (1826–1864). [7]
Commonly cited examples of multiple independent discovery are the 17th-century independent formulation of calculus by Isaac Newton, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and others, described by A. Rupert Hall; [3] the 18th-century discovery of oxygen by Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Joseph Priestley, Antoine Lavoisier and others; and the theory of the evolution ...
Factors that historians note spurred innovation and discovery include the 17th century Scientific Revolution and the 18th/19th century Industrial Revolution. [1] [2] Another possible influence is the British patent system which had medieval origins and was codified with the Patent Act of 1852. [3]