(STILL IN PREPARATION - Suggestions welcome)
1735: Carl Linnaeus begins classifying living beings in his "Systema Naturae" 1777: Antoine Lavoisier explains that fire is not a fundamental element 1787: Antoine Lavoisier founds chemistry 1788: Joseph Louis Lagrange reduces mechanics to calculus 1789: Antoine Lavoisier discovers the conservation of mass 1799: The metric system 1799: The metric system Continues to Science of the 19th Century |