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…
eyes on by Galileo. These discoveries where the four satellites of Jupiter, and also the observation of a supernova, verify the phases of Venus, and discover sunspots. These discoveries proved the Copernican system which states that the earth and other planets revolve around the sun. Prior to the Copernican system, it was held that the universe was geocentric, meaning the sun revolved around 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-…
You may have thought that the Scientific Revolution and The Enlightenment were the same, but there are several differences.The difference between the two is that The Enlightenment focused on the mental and physical actions and how man related to one another, while The Scientific Revolution concentrated on the physical world and how man related to it. The Scientific Revolution was in the 17th century (1543-1687). In The Scientific Revolution mathematics was key to understanding the nature of…
Tycho Brahe was born in 1546 in a Danish high nobility family, during a time in which Denmark had just transitioned from Roman Catholic to Lutheran, and had emerged as a dominant power that not only covered the area of modern Denmark, but of Norway and Iceland. Tyco was raised by his uncle Jorgen, who wanted a child so dearly that he abducted Tycho from Tycho’s parents. Born to one of the most prominent families in Denmark, Tycho’s led an early life with privilege and indulgence. He was educated…
Jack sladek Bible 10/26/2015 Mrs. Hunter William Herschel Sir William Herschel was born in November 15 1738 and died august 25 1822 but in his life he was a great man and he did great things he obsessed with the heaven and this dived him to become a German scientist and made breathes in the science and life and he was knighted because of great breathes. Sir William Hershel went in to the field of astronomy. Ever since he was a young boy he was obsessed with the heavens he wanted know what…
In the time win Galileo Galilee wanted to a Science ear. Galileo farther want Galileo to be a to study medicine to be a Dr. Galileo want to be science. Well Galileo did go to the University of Pisa to study medicine. I to make his farther happy. Galileo Galilee was born in Italy February 15,1564. Galileo died in Artery Italy on January 8,1642.Galileo was 77 years old and he was the 7 oldest children. Galileo father was a musician and wool trader. Galileo father wanted Galileo to study medicine…
It’s an honor that I successfully invited Plato, one of the Big Three of Greek philosophy, to Cemetery News for an interview. Editor: Mr. Plato, you used to firmly believe that there were two realms and forms only existed in the realm of forms. Forms were incorporeal, intangible and insensible while objects in our world, which was the material realm, were imperfect replica of those forms (Lindberg 13); forms are regular geometrical shapes like triangles (Lindberg 26). Now that you’ve read some…
Moses Maimonides, in his Guide for the Perplexed written between 1137 and 1190, concerns Aristotle’s natural philosophy and the astronomers’ conflicting truths. Around the twelfth century, most were a devoted Aristotelian, and educated people knew that stars in the celestial realm only had one motion, to revolve in a spherical motion around the centre of the universe . What Maimonides notes however, is that Aristotelian physics could not infer the existence of epicycles and eccentric circles.…