Development of Classical Physics

• Newton’s achievements define most of what we know as classical physics

  • The fundamental underpinnnings of the inventions and changes of the industrial revolution
  • The deterministic world view of the “Modern History” starting around 1600

Asia, Egypt

Mesopotamia

AristotleEuclid

Kepler

Newton

“Modern”

Physics

Greece, Rome

Middle Ages

Ptolomy

Copernicus

Renaissance

Al-Khawarizmi

1700

1800

1900

1600

Galileo

Calculus

Boltzmann

Kelvin

• Conservation Laws, heat, 2nd law

Mayer

Carnot

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