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Pre-20th Century

  • Pre-20th Century

  • 1400s: Leonardo da Vinci conceptualizes flying machines, contributing early ideas to aerospace engineering.
  • 1600s: Johannes Kepler formulates laws of planetary motion, laying the foundation for understanding celestial mechanics.
  • 17th-19th Centuries: Early telescopes enable astronomers like Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton to observe and document celestial objects and phenomena.

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