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Timeline of classical mechanics
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Timeline of classical mechanics
Timeline of
classical mechanics
:
Early Mechanics
4th century BC -
Aristotle
founds the system of
Aristotelian physics
260 BC -
Archimedes
mathematically works out the principle of the
lever
and discovers the principle of
buoyancy
60 AD -
Hero of Alexandria
writes
Metrica, Mechanics,
and
Pneumatics
1021 -
Al-Biruni
realizes that
acceleration
is connected with non-uniform
motion
1000-1030 -
Alhazen
and
Avicenna
develop the concepts of inertia and momentum
1100-1138 -
Avempace
develops the concept of a
reaction
force
1100-1165 -
Hibat Allah Abu'l-Barakat al-Baghdaadi
discovers that
force
is proportional to acceleration rather than speed, a fundamental law in classical mechanics
1121 -
Al-Khazini
publishes
The Book of the Balance of Wisdom
, in which he develops the concepts of
gravitational potential energy
and
gravity
at-a-distance
1340-1358 -
Jean Buridan
develops the
theory of impetus
1490 -
Leonardo da Vinci
describes
capillary action
1500-1528 -
Al-Birjandi
develops the theory of "circular
inertia
" to explain
Earth's rotation
1581 -
Galileo Galilei
notices the timekeeping property of the
pendulum
1589 - Galileo Galilei uses balls rolling on inclined planes to show that different weights fall with the same acceleration
1638 - Galileo Galilei publishes
Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences
1658 -
Christiaan Huygens
experimentally discovers that balls placed anywhere inside an inverted
cycloid
reach the lowest point of the cycloid in the same time and thereby experimentally shows that the cycloid is the
tautochrone
1668 -
John Wallis
suggests the law of
conservation of momentum
1676-1689 -
Gottfried Leibniz
develops the concept of
vis viva
, a limited theory of
conservation of energy
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