Galileo affair

It is not contested that William Harvey had an extraordinary mind; he was possibly one of the most highly recognized intellectuals of his time. From the time of his birth on April first, 1578 until his death in 1657, William Harvey labored indefatigably attempting to disprove the biological concepts of the time period. He was successful in his attempts as he did not solely disprove many of Galen’s theories, but also introduced many new concepts to the scientific community (Ribatti). William…

Long ago, people believed that the Earth was the center of the universe, and that all the stars, planets, and other celestial bodies orbited around it. However, as pivotal discoveries were made and new theories emerged, society gained a much more insightful understanding of the cosmos above. In the second century, an astronomer by the name of Claudius Ptolemy proposed his geocentric model of the solar system, which depicted Earth in the center of the universe and the planets and the Sun…

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 whereas galileo improved the idea. copernicus's heliocentric view, that the sun was at the center of the universe. Really…

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…

Galileo Galilei, or the “Father of Modern Science,” as he is sometimes called, was the epitome of a Renaissance man. He was not only an expert in the fields of astronomy, physics, and philosophy, he was a talented author, lute player, and painter as well. He played a major role in the scientific revolution, making many discoveries including the phases of Venus, Jupiter’s moons, as well as observing sunspots. Additionally, he was an advocate of heliocentrism, or the view that the Sun is the…

Leonardo Da Vinci was fascinated and interested in shadow projection in relation to painting. He questioned the inherent intricacies of light and optics. He married the complexities of reflection with the complexities of visual perception. His observations of optics and astronomy complicated his understanding of light. Leonardo had shown that astronomy and optics are connected. Da Vinci’s influence and studies covered across different streams of the renaissance era, from art, into science, into…

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…

John Kovac It’s amazing realizing where I’m sitting. Here I am right beside famous scientist John Kovac here in Wolbach Library at Harvard University. I’m astonished to see this magnificent library and I can feel the knowledge surrounding me. What’s even more impressive is that this library is mainly focused on astrophysics. As we are about to begin the interview John Kovac prepares himself my drinking a bottle of water and laying out a couple of awards he has won. What is your career? Well,…

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.…

Courage is a word thrown about often these days, but few make a conscious effort find a deeper meaning of it. For many, the first thing that comes to mind is the lack of fear; however, using the Latin origin of courage meaning “heart,” it becomes clear that courage has a more extensive meaning than the absence of fear. In the fourteenth century AD, the French used the word corage to mean “heart” or “innermost feelings” (Online). The origins of courage help one to understand that the…