Background
The timeline has been produced to celebrate 1000 years of scientific thought in the period 1000 to 2000. During this period our understanding of the world has changed completely - from unquestioning belief in religious teachings to a demand that knowledge should be based on observations and tested by experiment. The timeline provides a way of exploring this change in our way of understanding the world.

Future development
The timeline is designed to expand as educational activities are developed to help science students and their teachers to explore the changes in our way of understanding the world. Contributions of suitable activities are welcome from schools, teachers and students.

Credits
Financial support for timelinescience comes from Pfizer UK.
Site content and design by The Webucators.
History consultant Gary Mitchell, Ringwood School History Department.

Information sources
The starting point for information for the timeline was The Timetables of Science by Alexander Hellemans and Bryan Bunch (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988). This provided a large amount of information for the first stage of data collection. Information has also been collected and cross-checked using a wide range of Web sources including various encyclopædias. Other sources include: The Golem: What Everyone should know about Science by Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch (Cambridge: Canto, 1994); A Social History of Truth by Stephen Shapin (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994); Pythagoras' Trousers by Margaret Wertheim (London: Fourth Estate, 1995); Science and Culture - Popular and Philosophical Essays by Hermann von Helmholtz (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995), books by Ann Fullick from the Groundbreakers series (Oxford: Heinemann Library, 2000).

Copyright
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