MCC07-1600-Histroy

Change 1600 to 1920

1600	Human population estimated at 1 billion
William Shakespeare 1564-1616 William Harvey 1578-1657 Circulation of blood
Nicolas Copernicus 1473-1543 proposed sun centered system but did not reveal this till after his death fearing church reaction.
Using a telescope Galileo Galilei 1564-1642 discovered moons orbiting the planet Jupiter, not all heavenly bodies revolved around the Earth as once thought
Tycho Brahe 1546-1601 Observatory Site provided to Tycho Brahe by King Fredrich II of Denmark. Tycho died of ruptured bladder rather than offend patron king.
Johannes Kepler 1571-1630 While working math longhand his mother was tried as a witch. Wrote astrology articles to feed family when pay from kings did not arrive.
Kepler defined rules for elliptical orbits about sun.
Orbits, sequence & size fall in to place
Earth orbiting Sun solve ancient wandering star problem
Isaac Newton 1642-1727. Due to plaque at Cambridge Newton experimented at farm home. Newton’s reflecting telescope
Newton defined gravitational pull P=pull, G=gravitational constant, m = mass of respective object & d = distance between the objects.
Velocity of light by Roemer 1544-1710 Velocity fo light by Michelson’s 1855-1931 method: Speed of Light: = 186,000 miles per second
1765 James Watt invented the steam engine which used steam produced in a boiler to drive a piston and turn a wheel
Major contributors during this period were	Herschel 1768-1823 Maps Milky Way and finds binary stars. Bunson 1811-1899 worked with Kirchoff Kirchoff 1824-1887 defined rules for spectral lines Higgens 1824-1910 Found hydrogen lines in light from stars. Balmer 1825-1898 “Balmer Lines” atomic signatures Mach 1838-1916 Concepts on physics used by Einstein Plank 1850-1947 Planks constant & quantum mechanics Rutherford 1871-1937 X-Rays Bohr 1885-1951 Modeled the atom Einstein 1879-1953 Theory of Reletivity E=mc^2 Hubble 1899-1953 Measured distances to stars and galaxies. Herzsberg 1873-1973 Hersberg-Russell diagram showing life of stars Russell 1879-1957 above Shapely 1885-1972 Proved location of sun in galaxy, not at the center.
1776 American Revolution smooth bore mussel loading flit locks
1856 KS Homestead site when granddad was born. Periodic table almost filled.
1866 Civil War riffled bullets hit their mark, no awareness of germ infection
1870 Westward Expansion in US Free Land to be filled.
1896 Father born in sod house on above homestead, would watch Man Land on moon.	Trains cross plains and Wright Bros fly first plane o
By 1900 Britain, France, and other industrial powers dominated much of the world with influence over China and Latin American. Spanish and Ottoman Empires lost territory, while Germany, Japan, Russia, and the United States gained
1916-1918 WW1 First mechanize on all fronts.	Trench, Airplanes, Tanks, Gas, Machine gun, Ships
1920	Human population estimated as 2 billion