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  An Annotated History Timeline of Modern Science   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
This article addresses modern science, by which we mean science as we now understand it; e.g.
Copernicus (Niklas Kopernik, 1473 - 1543) proposed the heliocentric theory that the planets revolve around the sun, in De revolutionibus orbium caelestium (Concerning the revolutions of the heavenly spheres)
The Discorsi, together with the Dialogo, both works of popular science, "helped create a new age of scientific thought with their emphasis on observation, common sense, clear language, and persuasion by reasonable arguments" (Park 1990:206).
www.kosmoi.com /Science/History   (2638 words)

  
 Amazing Science
A particularly important development in the history of Indian science that was to have a profound impact on all mathematical treatises that followed was the pioneering work by Panini (6th C BC) in the field of Sanskrit grammar and linguistics.
The science of astronomy was also spurred by the need to have accurate calendars and a better understanding of climate and rainfall patterns for timely sowing and choice of crops.
This awakening was in part made possible by the rediscovery of mathematics and other sciences and technologies through the medium of the Arabs, who transmitted to Europe both their own lost heritage as well as the advanced mathematical traditions formulated in India.
www.hinduism.co.za /amazing.htm   (14227 words)

  
 Internet History of Science Sourcebook
From the late 17th century until the late 19th century that vision of the cosmos was developed and filled in by what we now call "classical science".
The achievements of this period have not been negated by the discoveries and theories of the late 19th and 20th centuries, but are now seen as accurate only with certain boundaries.
Andrew White: The Warfare of Science and Theology in Christendom 1898 [At Hanover]
www.fordham.edu /halsall/science/sciencesbook.html   (2786 words)

  
 Strange Science: Timeline
1720-René Réaumur submits a report to the Paris Academy of Sciences proposing that a brief Noachian flood cannot account for the thick sedimentary layers (composed largely of broken shells) underlying the region of Tours.
1723-Antoine de Jussieu addresses a paper to the Académie des Sciences suggesting that an ancient object, e.g., a stone tool, made of the same material and by the same process as those used by a modern population probably has the same function.
The embryos all come from the Doushantuo phosphorites in southern China, and all are estimated to be approximately 570 million years old, making them the oldest fossil embryos so far discovered.
www.strangescience.net /timeline.htm   (11662 words)

  
 Requirements Bibliography
Gervasi, "The Case for Cooperative Requirements Writing," European Conference on Object-Oriented Technology (ECOOP), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1543, Berlin: Springer, 1998, pp.
Object-Based Requirements Modeling for Process Continuity," Twenty-Sixth Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, Volume 3, Los Alamitos, California: IEEE Computer Society Press, 1993, pp.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Berlin: Springer Verlag, pp.
web.uccs.edu /adavis/UCCS/reqbib-abcd.htm   (7541 words)

  
 History Science
Galileo called to Rome and ordered to stop supporting the Copernican theory.
History of Science and Technology - A Timeline http://www.crimsonbird.com/science/timeline.htm
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