1500 AD to 1599 AD
This section shows the important events in Physics and Astronomy from 1500 AD years until 1599 AD. The names of people are highlighted in blue, important people are in bold blue.1510 Helicopter design – Leonardo da Vinci1519-1522 Magellan sails round the world1543 Copernican system published1544-1603 Gilbert1546-1601 Tycho1560 Eclipse of the Sun1560 First scientific society founded in Naples – Della Porta1564-1642 Galileo1571-1630 Kepler1572 Supernova in Cassiopeia observed by Tycho1576 Observatory constructed – Tycho1576 Stars scattered through space – Thomas Digges1580-1637 Vernier1581 Galileo studies medicine in Pisa1581 Pendulum theory – Galileo (?1582)1590 g – same for lead and wax spheres – Stevin de Groot1591 Pisa - weights dropped from the tower by Galileo (?)1591-1626 Snell, Willebrod1596 Mira – variable star – observed by David Fabricius1596-1650 Descartes1597 Air thermometer – Galileo1598-1647 Cavalieri – lens makers formula
0 AD to 1500 AD
This section shows the important events in Physics and Astronomy from 0 AD years until 1500 AD. The names of people are highlighted in blue, important people are in bold blue.50 Cleomedes studied refraction70-147 Ptolemy77 Pliny – watching gladiators through an emerald662 Arabic numerals in west – Severus Sebockt800 School of Science founded in Baghdad930 –1003 Gerbert - pope965 -1038 Al Hazan990 Pope Sylvester III labels beads in the abacus1350 Spectacles1450 Printing – invention of printing1452-1519 Leonardo da Vinci1472 Halley's comet observed – Johannes Regiomontanus1473-1543 Copernicus1476 Printing press - Caxton
History of Physics and Astronomy
Big Bang to 0 AD
This section shows the important events in Physics and Astronomy from the Big Bang until 0 AD. The names of people are highlighted in blue, important people are in bold blue.1.4x1010 years ago Big Bang300000 years later Universe becomes darkA billion years later Star – first one appears4.5x109 years ago Origin of the Earth500 000 years ago Human race appears3400 BC Ten - use of the symbol for 10 in Egypt2700 BC Babylonian astronomers named the constellations2000 BC Water clocks in Mesopotamia1400 BC Iron Smelting900 BC Pulleys624-547 BC Thales of Miletus572- 492 BC Pythagoras500-428 BC Anaxagoras460-370 BC Democritus – idea of atoms444 BC Empedocles- optical tentacles theory of vision400-355 BC Eudoxus – spheres theory427-347 BC Plato400 BC Tortoise paradox384-322 BC Aristotle332 BC Alexandria founded310 -230 BC Aristarchus – heliocentric theory300 BC Euclid – laws of reflection of light275-194 BC Eratosthenes – size of the Earth- 24000 miles287-212 BC Archimedes200 BC Hero of Alexandria46 BC Calendar introduced by Julius Caesar
