Advancements in science today have been built on the backs of discoveries that have come down the centuries. One of the game-changing inventions of the human species has been plastic that followed the discovery of petroleum in the 1800s.
But centuries before that, major scientific breakthroughs had already taken place. In 1543, Renaissance mathematician Nicolaus Copernicus wrote an analytical description of the planetary system ‘De Revolutionibus orbium Coelestium’. He described the sun as the central object around which the universe revolved, paving the way for modern celestial science.
Next in line was astronomer Galileo Galilei, who constructed his own telescope and wrote the dialogue on the great world systems. He wondered how the earth could fly round the sun once a year, or spin on its own axis once a day without us flying off. It was still unclear how a weight could be dropped from a high tower and fall straight on a spinning earth. It was Pythagorus, later Johannes Kepler followed by Sir Issac Newton who helped push the understanding of gravity to its present stage.
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