History of physics
Seminal physics publications

History of physics

Section Title: Seminal physics publications
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Author	Dates	Contribution

Aristotle	384 – 322 BCE	Physicae Auscultationes

Archimedes	287 – 212 BCE	On Floating Bodies

Ptolemy	90 – 168	AlmagestGeographiaApotelesmatika

Alhazen	965 – 1040	Book of Optics

Copernicus	1473 – 1543	On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres	1543

Galilei	1564 – 1642	Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems	1632

Descartes	1596 – 1650	Meditations on First Philosophy	1641

Newton	1643 – 1727	Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica	1687

Faraday	1791 – 1867	Experimental Researches in Electricity (Project Gutenberg)	1839 / 1844

Maxwell	1831 – 1879	A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism	1873

Einstein	1879 – 1955	Annus Mirabilis papers	1905

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Newton's Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica was published in 1687.

final_sentence: Newton's Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica was published in 1687.