Galileo Galilei

It is one of humankind’s most useful inventions. In 1609, Galileo Galilei heard about the "Dutch perspective glasses" and within days had designed one of his own, without ever seeing one. Telescopes have opened our eyes to the universe. Early telescopes showed that Earth was not the center of the universe, as was previously…

philosopher, chemist, physicist, and an inventor. He gave the first accurate definition of a chemical element, chemical reaction, and a chemical analysis. In 1641, Boyle went to Florence with his tutor who was French, he spent his winter studying with Galileo Galilei. He was also part of the “Invisible College” which was a group of men that met and discussed science and philosophy. Boyle was one of many pretty big founders of Chemistry. Boyle’s law describes the proportional relationships…

The growth of astrological knowledge transformed gradually from Ptolemy to Galileo. It was during the 1600s that the concept of heliocentric erupted, which is the idea that the sun is the center of the celestial body. The introduction of an improved telescope by Galileo himself paved the way to the doubts of the geocentric concept. The concept was one that was widely accepted and supported by the people and Catholic Church. However, the notion that the earth was not the center of the celestial…

During the 15th century, Europe had long left behind the dark middle ages and embarked into a new era of scientific thought and ideas. The rise of universities along with technological advancements, such as the printing press, gave way to the Scientific Revolution. In which scholars would investigate better explanations and drive for precise observations about the universe. Amidst all the major breakthroughs during the Scientific Revolution, one theory in particular would redefine the way…

ancient Greek texts gave a renewal of previous theories and also allowed for further research into both old and new theories. The Renaissance period had many great minds, including Rene Descartes, Francis Bacon, Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton and Galileo Galilei, that had influences on psychology (Malone, 2009). Even hundreds of years later, the work of many of these philosophers is still being referenced and studied, showing the impact that the Renaissance had on…

Michelangelo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo https://www.michelangelo.org/ Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarotti Simoni was born on March 6,1475 in Caprese near Arezzo, Tuscany. Died on February 18, 1564 at the age of 88 in Papal States, Rome. He was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance born in the Republic of Florence who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. He was the first artist who was recognized during his life…

Scientific Revolution was a physicist and astronomer named Galileo Galilei. “The great Italian mathematical physicist Galileo claimed that the book of nature "is written in the language of mathematics . . . without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it." (The Assayer, 1622, in Discoveries and Opinions, p. 238) Galileo worked hard to demonstrate and establish mathematical formulas for explaining the world. One tool that Galileo invented and used in his work was the…

This invention enabled astronomers, geographers, and philosophers like Newton, Ptolemy, and Galileo the opportunity to record their thoughts and revolutionary discoveries in books (Ideas of Cosmology, n.d.). Readers could then develop their own opinions and, in some cases, they would be motivated to continue the cycle of innovation and uncover groundbreaking…

More specifically, Galileo changed “the way we see the most apparently ordinary substance in the world: air” (pg4). His fascination with air, gradually turned into experiments to test how heavy air was by taking a large glass bottle, a leather stopper, and a syringe connected to a bellow in order to put water into the glass bottle. Afterward, Galileo weighed the bottle with the water inside, then opened the valve allowing the pressurized…

One of the most familiar stories on this topic is the imprisonment that Galileo Galilei had to suffer for his proclaim that the Earth was not the center of the universe (Hellman, 1998). He imprisonment of one of the greatest minds in history slowed down technological advances and imposed fear in those who shared his beliefs. Science…