Heliocentrism

Scientific Revolution:Galileo Vs. Copernicus What came first, the chicken or the egg? Obviously the egg. You can't have a chicken if you don't have an egg. Since copernicus first invented and researched his idea, he had more of an impact than galileo who added onto copernicus. If copernicus never had this idea, galileo's telescope could have never been hatched aka invented. Now it's not that Galileo Isn't important, it's just that copernicus had more of an impact with his heliocentric theory…

The person who had the greatest impact on their era was, Nicolas Copernicus because he theorized the concept of heliocentricity and proved that the catholic churches idea that the earth was geocentric was wrong. The new idea Copernicus presented called heliocentricity was basically everything the church didn’t want since it challenged their authority, and it made the Catholic Church look dishonest. Heliocentricity is the idea that sun is the center of the universe and earth and all the other…

This essay will address how passion and rivalry influenced Galileo to the contribution of the development of our natural scientific knowledge through the discovery of telescope, Copernican system, Heliocentric Solar system, and the discovery of estimating the sun’s rotation rate. Galileo’s strong passion of trying to explain as well as understand our world through discoveries and the rivalry against Kepler were the non-scientific factors that made Galileo’s discoveries all possible. In the…

Galileo was a man with confidence in what he believed in, but how did he express that? As Galileo Galilei once said “I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use”(BrainyQuote.com). In this essay, I will describe Galileo’s life, his revolutionary idea and how his idea worked, and its importance to the world. Revolutionary ideas are not easy to come by, They are even harder to make into a reality.…

Rene Descartes, born in the late 1500’s, was a well-known French, natural philosopher. During his time period, the Age of Enlightenment, the Scientific Revolution was shifting the world. Thinkers and discovers such as Copernicus and Galileo from the method of scholasticism in the medieval times, brought new studies of modern science to this era. Scholasticism is what are past down truths that have been assumed from our knowledge of religion and philosophy throughout time. Scholasticism should…

In an era of human history, when nearly all aspects of life were dominated by the Catholic churches’ teachings and beliefs, a man looked to the heavens above and discovered one of the fundamental truths of the universe. Historically, Europe of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, was a time filled with great advancements in thought and culture. Despite the influence and impacts of the Renaissance and Enlightenment periods, throughout the western world, the Catholic tradition still held…

Galileo Galilei was a famous Italian Polymath. He was born on February 15, 1564 in Pisa, Italy. He was the oldest of six children. His father was a musician and scholar. Galileo and his family moved to Florence, where Galileo started his education at the Camaldolese monastery in Vallombrosa, in 1574. He was a naturally very intelligent boy. In 1583 he went to the University of Pisa to study medicine not knowing of what his heart would soon desire. He was very very smart and talented. He soon…

Since the beginning of time, humans have had a fascination with cosmos. Many great scientists have helped with our lust and wondering of the great beyond. For example Galileo Galilei- a sixteenth-century Italian Astronomer, who invented his telescope to help cure his curstoutiy of the stars in the sky. Scientists with his common interests are what made it possible to travel into an outer domain. When looking at space travel, it is important to look at what made the soviets decide to travel into…

Galileo's lived a successful and made many accomplishments in life; creating world changing inventions and perspectives of the world. He received support from his family and from the family he grew. He was the one of six siblings, born in Pisa, Italy February 15, 1564. As he grew up and his family moving around, he decided to travel. Even though he didn’t settle during this time but once he began his travels he met a beautiful women Marina Gamba in Venice. He didn’t quit settle down, but in the…

Galileo Galilei was born the oldest of 6 brothers and sisters in Pisa, Italy, on February 15, 1564. Early in his life, he developed interests in music, as well as math and physics. As a young man, Galileo attended the University of Pisa, where he studied medicine to become a doctor. However, he later left the university due to financial issues, but continued to study mathematics on his own. In 1609, Galileo constructed his first telescope- a device which he would later use to make his well-…