History of science Flashcards
constellations
every culture has mapped the stars
Ancient World
before 600
bronze working
constellations
Babylonians (astronomy)
Indian subcontinent (astronomy tied to religion)
Classical Greece
Anaximenes: air not water
Heraclitus: fire comes form the gods
Parmenides: Change is an illusion
Democritus
Zeno paradoxes
atoms and the void
Fall of the Roman Empire
splits:330 Ad
Attacked: visgoths 410
Last western emperor dies in 480
Dark ages
little to no scientific progression in western world
classical texts still preserved in eastern empire and Islamic world
Islamic World
starts death of Muhammad
expansion from modern-day Iran to Spain
algebra
chemistry of metals
astromnoy
preservation of classical greek text
Crusades to renaissance
crusades 11-13th
re discovery of greek texts
islamic and asian advances
1200 scholastic philosophy becomes influential
scholasticism
philosophical school
logical and dialectical methods
foundational to modern logic
renaissance
cells and microscopy
jovian satellites
speed of light
telescope
probability
logarithm s
atmospheric (blood pressure)
anatomical description
seperation of chemistry from alchemy
royal societies and publication
industrial age
fiel to coal England
new world resources
foundations of modern physics
measurement of G
orbit of mercury
inertial frames of reference
double slit experiment
photoleteric effect
blackbody=y radiation
atomic line specrtra
20th century
dawn of the modern age
explosion of scinece
output
advances
techonology
large driven by computers in the secondd half
Albert Einstein
physicist
proved the existence of atoms
light was quantized
speed of light in universal
e=mc^2
