Johannes Kepler
The metric system was devised by French scientists during the French Revolution in the late 18th century. It was designed to be a universal system of measurements based on powers of ten for ease of use and conversion.
Hipparchus (190-120 BC), was perhaps the greatest of the Greek astronomers who devised a method of locating geographical positions by means of latitudes and longitudes. Also Ptolemy (2nd century A.D.) was a Greek astronomer and mathematician who lived and worked in Egypt. He wrote the book Geographie which charts all the places of the world as known to them at that time. His works , which employed a system of latitudes and longitudes , influenced map-makers for hundreds of years . He was a cartographer and he evolved the science of map-making.
In 1962, astronomer Edwin Hubble decided to classify galaxies according to a logical scheme. he eventually decided to classify them according to their shape. Today, galaxies are divided into four main groups: spiral, barred spiral, elliptical, and irregular.
Latitude and longitude have been used for centuries for navigation, but the modern system we use today was standardized in the 18th century. The modern concept of latitude and longitude as we know it today was refined by the English mathematician and astronomer Sir George Airy in the mid-19th century.
Carl Linnaeus devised the binomial nomenclature system of naming organisms in the 18th century. This system consists of assigning a two-part Latin name to each species, with the first part indicating the genus and the second part representing the species within that genus.
He was called Ptolemy and the system was called the Ptolemaic system.
Anders Celsius, a Swedish astronomer, created his temperature scale in 1742.
Anders Celsius, a Swedish astronomer, created his temperature scale in 1742.
"Eponymous" means "Same name". The laws of planetary motion were devised by Johannes Kepler, and are generally called "Kepler's Laws".
Anders Celsius, a Swedish astronomer, created his temperature scale in 1742.
The heliocentric theory was devised by Nicolaus Copernicus, a Polish mathematician and astronomer who proposed that the Sun, not the Earth, was the center of the universe. His work laid the foundation for the Copernican Revolution and modern astronomy.
There is much debate about when the greek alphabet was devised. Many scholars believe the greek alphabet was devised somewhere around 8th Century BC. Others put it at earlier dates.
the Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius who devised it in 1742 (although at that time freezing was 100 and boiling point 0 degrees
The system was devised by Capt. Alexander Read and Thomas (later Sir Thomas) Munro at the end of the 18th century and introduced by the latter when he was governor of Madras.
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Carolus Linnaeus
The electoral college was devised in response to the political realities of the late 18th century; in the 21st century it seems to be anachronistic.