Timeline of Important Physics Publications
| Name | Living time | Contribution |
|---|---|---|
| Aristotle | BC 384–322 | Physicae Auscultationes |
| Archimedes | BC 287–212 | On Floating Bodies |
| Ptolemy | 90–168 | Almagest, Geography, Apotelesmatika |
| 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 | Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (1687) |
| Faraday | 1791–1867 | Experimental Researches in Electricity, vols. i. and ii. (1839, 1844) |
| Maxwell | 1831–1879 | Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism (1873) |
| Einstein | 1879–1955 | On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies (1905) |
| Higgs | 1929–Present | Some Problems in the Theory of Molecular Vibrations (1954) |
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