Galileo Galilei

his work, some of his most famous opinions were that everyone is equal, and that if everyone is happy you will be happy. Galileo and Newton were two famous scientists that made many ground-breaking discoveries. Through their discoveries we learned lots, but we also have lot’s of misunderstanding and different views of their personal greatness. As a child it was clear that Galileo had a bright future ahead of him. Throughout his life he made many discoveries and theories. He enjoyed observing…

Nicolaus Copernicus was born in Torun, Poland in 1473 and died in the month of May 1543 in Frauenberg, Poland. Nicolaus’ main occupations consisted of being an astronomer, scientist, and mathematician but was also a doctor and painter. Copernicus studied at Krakow University, there he studied painting and mathematics. He then graduated from Krakow University and went to Italy, there he went to two universities, one called the University of Bologna, there he studied religious law and after…

William Herschel was a British scientist and astronomer who lived and studied during the late 18th century. He had a particular fascination with space and everything it contained, and he made it his goal to understand “the construction of the heavens”. The search for new astronomical objects during Herschel’s time was huge, and at one point during his studies, he began to become very intrigued by the discovery of nebulae. This interest of Herschel was partly due to the studies of another fellow…

Galileo was an Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician. He was born in Pisa in 1654 and played a very important role in the scientific revolution during the Renaissance. Galileo was the first to describe speed. Before Galileo, most people did not put much thought into moving things. They just called them vaguely and simply “slow” or “fast”. Galileo is acclaimed for being the first individual to calculate speed by analyzing the distance covered and the time it…

Galileo later then expanded on Copernicus’s theory and to prove it, Galileo and made the telescope better. He saw the farthest into the universe than anyone before. He saw that there were craters on the surface of the moon. He saw that there were spots on to sun. Galileo was that there were multiple moons were orbiting Jupiter. He observed Venus moving through phases much like Earth’s moon. This information persuaded Galileo that Copernicus was right. Just as Jupiter’s moons orbited that giant…

In 1633, Galileo was convicted by the Roman Catholic Church for believing and voicing his opinion about the idea that the sun is the center of the universe. Galileo was an astronomer and he believed that the earth and planets revolved around the sun. Galileo is well known today, as is his life story. In Galileo’s Daughter, Sobel tells the story of Galileo as well as the tale of Galileo’s daughter, Maria Celeste. Although the book is named Galileo’s Daughter, the book is more about Galileo’s lift…

Aristarchus of Samos was not only an astronomer but also a mathematician. He lived between 310–230 B.C. and belonged to the Pythagorean School of Thought (Heath). His mathematical knowledge helped him to discover great advances in the world of astronomy. His writing The Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon is his only surviving text (Aristarchus ‘16). Aristarchus’ description of the solar system was similar to our modern one and this was about 1500 years before Copernicus made his geocentric…

Gravitation - Movement, or a tendency to move, towards a centre of gravity, as in the falling of bodies to the earth. (Oxford Dictionary) Introduction : For centuries, mankind has always been fascinated by the celestial bodies. The motion of the stars and planets were at once a symbol of the divine order of the universe and a profound challenge for human understanding. For the ancient Greeks the separation between the terrestrial and celestial realms was absolute--the downward motion of…

Galileo struggled with censorship and religious critics for his works which conflicted significantly with medieval teachings. One argument Galileo made to demonstrate the compatibility of Copernicanism with scripture is based on the practices of medieval theologians. He argues that past theologians have interpreted Aristotelian teachings on astronomy to better align with scripture, so there should be no reason he cannot do the same. Galileo attempted to describe his viewpoint as “divinely…

well-known scientists to begin resisting the church control while limiting religious influences in his work was Galileo. Galileo made his discoveries by using a telescope and was determined to prove that the heliocentric model of the universe was correct, while trying to not go against and disprove the church and the teachings of the Bible (Galileo on Nature, Scripture, and Truth, pg. 391). Galileo believed that nature and the Bible could co-exist peacefully without much contradiction, but…