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Milestones in the history of mechanics
Name
Thales of Miletos
Pythagoras
Demokritos
Aristotle
Euclid
Aristarchus
Archimedes
Eratosthenes
Hero
Ptolemy
Pappus
Leonardo da Vinci
Copernicus
Brahe, Tycho
Galileo
Kepler
Descartes
Roberval
Torricelli
Pascal
Huygens
Hooke
Newton
Lifespan
624 - 546 B.C.
ca 582 - ? B.C.
ca 470 - 380 B.C.
384 - 322 B.C.
ca 325 - ? B.C.
320 - 250 B.C.
287 - 212 B.C.
276 - 196 B.C.
ca 20 - ? A.D.
ca 75 - ? A.D.
ca 250 - ?
1452 - 1519
1473 - 1543
1546 - 1601
1564 - 1642
1571 - 1630
1596 - 1650
1602 - 1675
1608 - 1647
1623 - 1662
1629 - 1695
1635 - 1703
1642 - 1727
Leibnitz
Varignon
Polhem
Bernoulli, Johann
Bernoulli, Daniel
Euler
D’Alambert
Coulomb
Lagrange
Watt
Montgolfier
Laplace
Gauss
Poinsot
Poisson
Cauchy
Faraday
Coriolis
Ericsson
Jacobi
Hamilton
Foucault
Maxwell
Mach
Boltzmann
Kovalevsky
Poincaré
Hertz
Planck
Einstein
1646
1654
1661
1667
1700
1707
1717
1736
1736
1736
1740
1749
1777
1777
1781
1789
1791
1792
1803
1804
1805
1819
1831
1838
1844
1850
1854
1857
1858
1879
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1716
1722
1751
1748
1782
1783
1783
1806
1813
1819
1810
1827
1855
1859
1840
1857
1867
1843
1889
1851
1865
1868
1879
1916
1906
1891
1912
1894
1947
1955
Achievements
greek philosophy, science, and mathematics
geometry, number theory
the theory of atoms
postulated laws of motion (wrong)
summarized and systematized geometry
first suggestion of heliocentric system
hydrostatics, primitive infinitesimal calculus
determined the circumference of the earth
theory of the lever
summarized greek geocentric astronomy
center of gravity, inclined plane
experiments on motion, laws of friction
heliocentric astronomy
precise astronomical observations
the experimental method
laws of planetary motion
analytical geometry
the law of composition of forces
the barometer, production of vacuum
hydrostatics, probability theory
motion of pendulum, wave nature of light
Hooke’s law (elasticity)
laws of motion, law of gravity
infinitesimal calculus, the spectrum
developed differential and integral calculus
developed the theory of statics
industrial and applied mechanics
the principle of virtual work
fluid flow theory
rigid body, fluid, and solid mechanics
developed the force concept
friction, Coulomb’s law in electrostatics
analytical mechanics
the steam engine
the hot air balloon
perfected celestial mechanics
differential geometry
rigid body motion, force systems
conservation laws in mechanics
theory of elasticity
the field concept
the Coriolis (fictitious) force
the screw propeller
partial differential equation of motion
canonical mechanics
Foucault’s pendulum
electromagnetism, statistical mechanics
shock waves, Mach’s principle
statistical mechanics
integrability of rigid body motion
the three-body problem, ‘chaos’
non-holonomic constraints, electromagnetic waves
quantization
relativity