Modern science was born around the year 1600. Scientists in Europe started to do experiments for testing their guesses and noted the results methodically. This is the Scientific Method and it resulted in rapid scientific progress. Some of the most important achievements are listed here.
Modern Science Timeline
| 1538 | Andreas Vesalius | Human Anatomy |
| 1543 | Copernicus | Planets revolve around the earth |
| 1581-1621 | Galilei Galileo | All objects fall at same speed |
| 1609 | Johannes Kepler | Elliptical orbits of planets; Laws of planetary motion |
| 1628 | William Harvey | Circulation of blood |
| 1637 | Rene Descartes | Coordinate system of geomentry |
| 1665-1704 | Isaac Newton | Law of universal gravitation; Laws of motion |
| 1665 | Robert Hooke | Discovery of plant cell |
| 1674 | A van Leeuwenhoek | Discovery of micro-organisms |
| 1735 | Carl Linnaeus | System of classifying and naming plants and animal |
| 1771 | Joseph Priestly | Discovery of oxygen; Description of photosynthesis |
| 1779 | Jan Ingenhousz | Description of photosynthesis |
| 1777-1789 | Antoine Lavoisier | Law of conservation of matter; System for naming chemicals |
| 1808 | John Dalton | Atomic theory |
| 1811 | Amedeo Avogardo | Molecules are made of atoms |
| 1820 | Hans Christian Oersted | Connection between electricity and megenatism |
| 1831 | Michale Faraday | Producing electricity by magnetic induction |
| 1847 | Hermann Helmholtz | Law of conservation of energy |
| 1859 | Charles Darwin | Theory of natural selection to expain evolution |
| 1860s | Louis Pasteur | Germ theory of disease |
| 1866 | Gregor Mendel | Law of heridity |
| 1869 | Dmitry Mendeleyev | Periodic table of elements |
| 1860-1870s | James Clerk Maxwell | Electromagnetic light; Equation for electromagnetism |
| 1888 | Heinrich Hertz | Radio Waves |
| 1890-1900s | Marie & Pierre Curie | Radioactivity |
| 1900 | Max Planck | Quantum theory |
| 1902 | Teisserenc de Bort | Atmospheric layers |
| 1902 | Karl Landsteiner | Blood groups |
| 1905-1920 | Albert Einstein | Theories of relativity; Photoelectric effect; e=m.c.c |
| 1911 | Victor Hess | Discovery of cosmic radiation |
| 1913 | Niels Bohr | Structure of the atom |
| 1924-1929 | Edwin Hubble | Expanding universe |
| 1928 | Alexander Fleming | Penicillin |
| 1953 | J. Watson and F. Crick | Double-helix structure of DNA |
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