Galileo Galilei

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…

This was one of many awards Galileo received throughout his life. However, is position was not enough for Galileo, so he sought to be the chairman of mathematics at the University of Bologna, but they did not give him the job. Even though he did not get that job, he was asked by the “Florentine Academy to give two lectures about a prestigious literary group, on the arrangement of the world in Dante’s Inferno” (Helden). After doing that, he discovered an ingenious idea about the center of…

Vulcan the mysterious planet said to have messed up most scientific findings. Vulcan was a planet made up to fill the gap in unequal Scientific findings. Urbain Le Vernier, a mathematician in 1840, was very interested in the Unusual Way, Mercury orbited the sun. He decided to look into it further, and using Isaac Newton’s theory of gravitation, he was able to calculate the orbit of mercury. He then compared his results to the actual real motion of mercury and they did not add up. Yet, he…

well as his study on Mars and planetary motion. Although Kepler was a very brilliant man, he didn’t exactly have an easy life. Kepler was born on December 27, 1571 in Württemberg, Germany. From then on, he grew up inspired by scientists like Galileo. As a child, Kepler was poor and had no way to afford any form of higher education. Fortunately, there was a scholarship that was given out by the Duke of Württemberg…

In the 7th century B.C. everyone knew that the earth was flat and they had no reason to think otherwise until “great” thinkers like Pythagoras stated otherwise. Today we know that the earth is round, but, how do we really know? An everyday human being has not been to the moon, has not even been outside of the stratosphere. So how can one say for sure that the earth is a spinning ball? Starting in the 19th century people started to ask these exact questions which lead to Zetetic Astronomy or…

Archimedes was a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, engineer and inventor. Archimedes was the first big mathematician, as well as consider the best mathematician of that era. Archimedes was born in the Greek city-state of Syracuse. His father, Phidias, was an astronomer. The fact that his father was an astronomer made him motivated to do all the inventions he did. He was really close to King Hieron and his son, Gelon. He worked for them, when he lived in Alexandria. He invented the sciences…

There is without a doubt a correlation between astronomy and the ancient Greeks. This correlation became more prominent as the curiosity of the idea of not being alone in the universe and scientifically explaining what's out there became stronger. The idea that the Greeks relied on their religion to explain the things they did not understand is a great one. It is clear and easily proven that astronomy played a huge role in the religion, even in the beginning of it. "The nocturnal character of…

famous and influential people who have shaped our world today. One of the countries who partook during this time was Italy. The nation was flourishing as everything seem to be looking successful. Shortly after the works of Lipphersey, astronomer Galileo Galilie developed his own new and improved version of the telescope. He had made it better than it has ever had been, contributing greatly towards the start of the scientific revolution. Galileo’s telescope helped him discover four new stars…

discovered knowledge and made his own improved hypotheses which he later proved through experimentation. The first of Sir Isaac Newton’s contributions to the scientific revolution was applying the laws of gravitational force discovered previously by Galileo to our solar system. Newton’s improvement of Galileo’s law of gravitational force is denoted the title of…

The History Behind the Conflict of Flamsteed and Newtown John Flamsteed, an English astronomer, has put a huge impact on the field of science, which is still important today. Being the first astronomer of England, Flamsteed founded Greenwich Observatory and discovered over three thousand stars. In the beginning, Flamsteed was struck with a disease, crippling rheumatoid, that forced him to leave school and study astronomy on his own. Flamsteed was fascinated by the solar eclipse, which brought…