The Millennium:
A Space and Astronomy Timeline
Century:
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The Second Millennium (1001 - 2000AD)
13th Century (1201 - 1300)
1234: Koreans use movable type to print Buddhist texts.
1242: The English monk Roger Bacon describes the formula for gunpowder.
1280: A Syrian scholar describes "Chines Arrows" which are rockets.
1300: Mechanical clocks are in use in Europe, along with eyeglasses and spinning wheels.
1200s: During the 13th century, European scholars chip away at Aristotle's methodology and physics.
1200s: English Franciscans Robert Grosseteste and Roger Bacon introduce mathematics and the experimental method into science. They discuss vision and the nature of light and color.
1200s: Grosseteste and Bacon's successors at Merton College, Oxford, introduce quantitative reasoning and physics with new ideas about accelerated motion.
1200s: Jean Buridan and others in Paris elaborate on the concept of impetus.
Timeline Century:
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