Scientific Developments

World Heritage Sites connected to 'Scientific Developments':

  • City of Bath In 1781 William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus (orginally named "The Georgian Star" after the king!)using a home made telescope operated from the garden of his house in New King St (Now the Herschel Museum of Astronomy). It was the first planet to be discovered which could not be seen by the naked eye.
  • Galapagos Islands Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection
  • Kew Gardens Research into Botanical diversity
  • Lake Baikal Baikal Deep Underwater Neutrino Telescope
  • Maritime Greenwich The Observatory - numerous Astronomical discoveries including basic measurements of "the motions of the Heavens". Also definition of Longitude
  • Old City of Berne Einstein's house 49 Kramgasse
  • Pisa Galileo's experiments linked to Cathedral and Leaning Tower (disputed)
  • Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France Tour St Jacques in Paris was where Pascal carried out experiments on atmospheric pressure and there is still a meteorological laboratory installed at the top of the tower.
  • Sanctuary of Asklepios at Epidaurus Development of Medicine
  • Struve Geodetic Arc Determination of Earth's size/shape