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600-200 BCE
- Kanada postulates first atomistic theory
1401
- Nicholas of Cusa born 1401
1464
- Nicholas of Cusa died August 11, 1464.
1564
- Galileo Galilei born; 15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642).
1571
- Johannes Kepler born December 27, 1571
1600
- Giordano Bruno is charged with heresy February 17, 1600. He was burned at the stake.
1629
- Christiaan Huygens born 14 April 1629.
1630
- Johannes Kepler dies November 15, 1630.
1635
- Robert Hooke FRS born; 28 July 18 July 1635 – 3 March 1703).
1642
- Galileo Galilei dies; 8 January 1642).
1666
- Isaac Newton begins work with prisms and light. [3]
1671
- Robert Hooke does first cymatics experiments March 9, 1671. [England's Leonardo]
1673
- Christiaan Huygens builds a motor driven by gunpowder explosions (dissociation) (1)
1690
- Papin uses steam to move a piston (1)
1695
- Christiaan Huygens dies 8 July 1695
1703
- Robert Hooke FRS dies; 3 March 1703)
1712
- Newcomen develops a steam engine (1)
1715
- Gregory first writes of Bode's Law
1723
- Stahl popularizes phlogiston and Becher's concepts (1)
1724
1733
- Bernoulli publishes a text that is the first truly statistical treatment of kinetic theory and publishes an update in 1738. It is almost forgotten until 1859. (1)
1750
- Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Kite experiment described
1752
- October 19, 1752 - Benjamin Franklin conducts his kite experiment
1756
- Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni born November 30.
1764
- Watts invents a steam engine that is more than six times more effective than Newcomen's engine. (1) Keelys Contributions to Science
1766
- John Dalton born 6 September 1766 - 27 July 1844
1772
- Bode completes Bode's Law
1777
- Carl Friederich Gauss born; April 30, 1777
1780
Luigi Galvani conducts his frog leg experiments
1783
- Lavoisier points out the weakness of phlogiston theory with respect to combustion. (1)
1786
1789
- Lavoisier publishes his Elementary Treatise on Chemistry, which represents the law of conservation of mass. (1)
1791
- Faraday, Michael born September 22, 1791
- Prevost publishes a theory of heat and radiation exchange. *Richter founds stoichiometry. (1)
1798
- Thompson demonstrates the conversion of work into heat, in his Enquiry Concerning the Source of Heat which is Excited by Friction. (1)
1799
- Davy's experiments seriously challenge phlogiston theory. (1)
- Alessandro Volta discovers voltaic pile.
[1] Bearden, Thomas; Energy from the Vacuum - Concepts and Principles; 2002.
[2] Carlson, W. Bernard; "Tesla, Inventor of the Electrical Age"; Princeton University Press; 2013, page 73.
[3] I. Newton, Philos. Trans. R. Soc. London 6 (1672), 3075-3087
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