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1898 In Science
The year 1898 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Archaeology * The Narmer Palette is discovered in Hierakonpolis, Egypt. Astronomy * Annie Scott Dill Maunder photographs the Sun's outer corona during a solar eclipse in India. * 433 Eros, the first near-Earth object, is discovered. * George Darwin proposes that the Earth and Moon had once been one body. Biology * March 26 – The Sabi Game Reserve in South Africa, the first officially designated game reserve, is created. Chemistry * William Ramsay and Morris Travers discover the noble gases krypton (May 30), neon (June 7) and xenon (July 12) at University College London. * July 28 – Marie and Pierre Curie announce (at the French Academy of Sciences) discovery of a substance they call ''Polonium''. * December 26 – Marie and Pierre Curie announce discovery of a substance they call ''radium''. It is the only moment where 5 elements are discovered the same year. * Emil Fischer synthesizes p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science
Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for scientific reasoning is tens of thousands of years old. The earliest written records in the history of science come from Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia in around 3000 to 1200 BCE. Their contributions to mathematics, astronomy, and medicine entered and shaped Greek natural philosophy of classical antiquity, whereby formal attempts were made to provide explanations of events in the physical world based on natural causes. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, knowledge of Greek conceptions of the world deteriorated in Western Europe during the early centuries (400 to 1000 CE) of the Middle Ages, but was preserved in the Muslim world during the Islamic Golden Age and later by the efforts of Byzantine Greek scholars who brought Greek ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
