Millennium highlights ... from Gerbert d'Aurillac to Watson and Crick

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It is possible to identify a wide range of significant scientific developments in the period from the year 1000 to the present day. At the turn of the first millennium, Gerbert d'Aurillac, Bishop of Rheims, France, and his school represented the highest level of mathematics in the Latin West. By the mid-13th century, the natural philosophy of Aristotle and the Greek mathematical books were available in Latin translation in the leading Western universities. During the 18th century, significant subsciences of magnetism, electricity, light and heat emerged. In the 20th century, the key scientific development was the discovery of the structure of DNA.

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Eighteen ninety-three and all that

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An assortment of scientific discoveries, inventions and publications dating back to 1493 will mark their anniversaries in 1993. In 1543 Copernicus published his views about the heliocentric system and Peter Ramus attacked the Aristotelian logic taught in the schools and was prohibited from teaching or writing philosophy. Another example is 1943, the year Jacques-Yves Cousteau invented the aqualung.

Cover Story, Anniversaries, 1993 AD

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1903 and all that

Article Abstract:

This year marks the anniversaries (50, 100, 150, etc years) of many notable scientific and technical achievements, including the Wright Brothers' first manned, powered, heavier-than-air flight (1903), the discovery of five new elements (1803), the recommendation of citrus juice to prevent scurvy (1753) and the election of Isaac Newton as president of the Royal Society of London (1703). Just fifty years ago, in a paper in Nature, James Watson and Francis Crick elucidated their double helix model of DNA.

Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences, Scientific Research and Development Services, World, Sciences, Science, Research & Development

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