This timeline shows the main scientific advances in fields like technology or astronomy during these centuries.
In astronomy, Kepler's laws of planetary motion are three scientific laws describing the motion of planets around the Sun.
John Napier invented the use of logarithms for calculation.
William Harvey discovered how the circulatory system was.
Evangelista Torricelly invented the mercury barometer.
Boyle's law is an experimental gas law. This law was invented by Robert Boyle.
Spontaneous generation is a disproved idea by Francesco Redi.
Isaac Newton discovers that white light is a spectrum of a mixture of distinct coloured rays.
Joseph Black describes latent heat.
Benjamin Franklin discovers that lightnings are electrical.
Thomas Bayes publishes the first version of Bayes' theorem.
Charles Messier publishes a catalogue of astronomical objects called Messier Objects.
William Herschel announces discovery of Uranus.
Jacques Charles invented Charles' law of ideal gas.
Antoine Lavoisier invented the law of conservation of mass.
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