Timeline of scientific experiments

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The timeline below shows the date of publication of major scientific experiments:

5th century BC[]

  • 430 BC - Empedocles proves that air is a material substance by submerging a clepsydra into the ocean.

2nd century BC[]

  • 240 BC - Archimedes devised a principle which he later used to solve the riddle of the suspect crown.
  • 230 BC – Eratosthenes measures the Earth's circumference and diameter.

10th century[]

11th century[]

12th century[]

  • 1121 – Al-Khazini makes extensive use of the experimental method to prove his theories on mechanics in The Book of the Balance of Wisdom.
  • Ibn Zuhr (Avenzoar) is the first physician to carry out human postmortem dissections and autopsies. He proves that the skin disease scabies is caused by a parasite, a discovery which upsets the Hippocratic and Galenic theory of humorism.

13th century[]

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19th century[]

20th century[]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Hewitt, Paul (2010). Conceptual Physics (11 ed.). Pearson. p. 567. ISBN 978-0-321-56809-0.
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