Timeline of thermodynamics

A timeline of events in the history of thermodynamics. == Before 1800 == 1593 – Galileo Galilei invents one of the first thermoscopes, also known as Galileo thermometer 1650 – Otto von Guericke builds the first vacuum pump 1660 – Robert Boyle experimentally discovers Boyle's law, relating the pressure and volume of a gas (published 1662) 1665 – Robert Hooke published his book Micrographia, which contained the statement: "Heat being nothing else but a very brisk and vehement agitation of the parts of a body." 1667 – J. J. Becher puts forward a theory of combustion involving combustible earth in his book Physica subterranea (see Phlogiston theory).

Source: Wikipedia — Timeline of thermodynamics (CC BY-SA 4.0)