History of Physics - Timeline of Important Physics Publications

Timeline of Important Physics Publications

Name Living time Contribution
Aristotle BC 384–322 Physicae Auscultationes
Archimedes BC 287–212 On Floating Bodies
Ptolemy 90–168 Almagest, Geography, Apotelesmatika
Alhazen 965–1040 Book of Optics
Copernicus 1473–1543 On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres (1543)
Galilei 1564–1642 Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632)
Descartes 1596–1650 Meditations on First Philosophy (1641)
Newton 1643–1727 Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (1687)
Faraday 1791–1867 Experimental Researches in Electricity, vols. i. and ii. (1839, 1844)
Maxwell 1831–1879 Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism (1873)
Einstein 1879–1955 On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies (1905)
Higgs 1929–Present Some Problems in the Theory of Molecular Vibrations (1954)

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