Cosmology

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…

“My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.” -Stephen Hawkings. This is exactly what Stephen Hawking is working to do by piecing together parts of the universe. Stephen Hawking was born on January 8, 1942, in Oxford, England. When Hawking was young, he showed a strong passion for science and the sky. When he was 21, he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as ALS. ALS is a very progressive disease…

The myth I chose for this week’s assignment tells the story of Mayan creation. This myth comes from an ancient Mayan book, The Popol Vuh, which according to Ancient Origins website “is the corpus of mythological and historical narratives, including the creation story according to the Quiché-Maya people” ("Popol Vuh: The Sacred Narrative Of Maya Creation"). Additionally, Ancient History Encyclopedia states, the Popol Vuh “has been referred to as the Mayan Bible” (Mark, Joshua). The book details…

In his book “Daily Life of the Aztecs: People of the Sun and Earth,” David Carrasco successfully explained the life of the Aztecs, so the reader could better comprehend what the Aztecs went through. Carrasco effectively accomplished reliving the Aztecs life in 282 pages which was constructed of a preface, a chronology of Central Mexico, nine chapters, notes, glossary, selected bibliography, and an index. The “Daily Life of the Aztecs: People of the Sun and Earth,” was published in 1998 by The…

Athena, also called Athena Parthenos, was a Greek goddess who played a very important and unforgettable role in the time of Greek mythology. She was described as wearing body armor, a golden helmet, carrying a shield as well as a spear (Cartwright, “Athena”). She was often known to people as the protector of the city and the goddess of war, handicraft and practical reason. Athena was also the daughter of Zeus. Though, she did not have a mother; it is said that she appeared full-grown from Zeus’s…

which are multiplicity of competing speaking voices with different ideologies. Perdue mentions that “earlier examinations of wisdom theology have approach the task through four major organizing principles: anthropology, cosmology, theodicy and the dialectic of anthropology and cosmology.”…

As the people migrated to the Americas, it was long till kingdoms began to evolve. Around 600 BCE towns evolved to cities, and chieftains transformed into kings. One of the know culture’s and kingdom that control the Yucatan Peninsula was the Mayas. The Maya were a very religious culture, who in fact lived in the fear of the destructive nature of the gods. One thing that was important part of their religion was the death rituals. The Mayan people developed multiple traditions to commemorate the…

Researching mathematical equations, exploring the NASA database and learning more about physics and cosmology will become part of my investigations, through the use of databases and books from the library. Including the use of information I might find at the different colleges at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Experimenting with large scale imagery…

causes them to lose their ability to move, breathe, eat, and speak. 2) Patients: who suffers from it; demographics and epidemiology The patient that is suffering this is Stephen Hawking. Stephen Hawking is a well-known Physicist and the director of Cosmology in the University of Cambridge. He discovered the he had (ALS) at a very young age. Many doctors that he has gone to told him that there is…

had to once again decide what he was going to study. He went with Physics (hawking.org, Brief Biography). It took Stephen three years for him to earn a degree in Natural Science (even though he didn’t much work). Cosmology was appealing to Stephen so he went to Cambridge to study Cosmology (hawking.org, Brief Biography). Hawking eventually gained his Ph.D. After he gained his Ph.D. he became Professional Fellow at a college (hawking.org, Brief…