Galileo Galilei

Galileo Galilei, the astronomer famed and scorned for his unorthodox ideas about a heliocentric galaxy once said “All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” Candace Fleming, in her nonfiction work, The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia, strives to reveal the truth about the truth about what happened to the Romanov family, a puzzling piece of history surrounded by controversies and rumors. Many concerned parents…

and many other things. He is also the father of another famous god, Jupiter, which another planet is named after. In 1610, when the first person to look at the planet Saturn through a telescope, Galileo Galilei, made the discovery of the biggest mysteries of Saturn to this day -- the rings. Initially Galileo assumed that they were just extensions of Saturn, but then, a couple years later, he observed the planet again and the moons that he saw the first time were gone. Then two years after than,…

Stephen William Hawking is one of the greatest scientists of our time. Born exactly three hundred years after the death of scientist Galileo Galilei, Hawking was born to be a genius. Stephen was always clever as a young boy. When he was in elementary school, his father, Frank Hawking, felt that since he went to a minor private school due to his parents’ lack of money, he did not achieve his full potential in life. So, he wanted to send his son Stephen to the best private school in the…

recognizable moons in our solar system. This moon is the sixth (6th) closest to Jupiter and the fourth (4th) smallest of the Galilean moons ("Moons of Jupiter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia," n.d.). When this moon was discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei, he decided to name it after Europa, meaning or daughter of the King of Tyre. Over the last forty (40) years, there have been multiple spacecraft that have raised speculation that Europa has internal convection due to Jupiter's…

Sir Isaac Newton and James Gregory stood out the most. Isaac created the three laws of motion, and James had important results on infinite series expansions of various trigonometric functions. Some other scientists from the 17th century were Galileo Galilei, Willebrord Snell, and Nicholas Cabeus. Some other mathematicians from the 17th century were Ole Roemer, John Collins, and Robert Hooke. These are only some scientists and mathematicians but Isaac and James had better accomplishments. Do not…

Edgar Allan Poe, Vincent Van Gogh, Galileo Galilei, and other breaking-the-social-norms thinkers were not recognized during their time on earth. A French man by the name of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin was ridiculed for the majority of his adult life for his stance that evolution and religion can coexist with one another. Going over Teilhard’s basic beliefs, his view on Genesis, and how the world reacted with his ideas can provide a deeper understanding on his life and on the overall subject. The…

Uranus: Uranus was discovered in 1781 by a British Astronomer named William Herschel, using a 6 inch telescope. At first he thought that it might be a nebulous star or even a comet, but after continued observation, he realized that it appeared to be a disk in the sky that moved relative to the stars. The movement was far too slow to be a comet and soon enough he realized that he had discovered the 7th planet at the time. At first, he wanted to name it Georgium Sidus which translates to…

Sir Isaac Newton was born on December 25th, 1642. As Newton grew up he was recognized as a very knowledgeable physicist, mathematician, author and astronomer. He excelled in both math and physics and has been developing theories since his early twenties. Isaac Newton attended a grammar school in Grantham near Lincolnshire, where as during this time Newton became very interested with chemicals. In 1664 Newton at that time was a student, he read up on work containing optics and light. He was…

The Allegory of The Matrix Famous astronomer Galileo Galilei once said that “All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them”. He is a renowned intellectual as well as an astronomer, he believed in always finding the truth. He believed that it is the most important aspect of life. This is very similar to the views of Plato and the Wachowskis’, they believe that even if the truth is hidden from us, we must strive to find it. In Plato's "Allegory of the…

Science has revolutionized our world with unimaginable advancements in technology. From the brilliant minds of William Whewell (who coined the English word “science”) to the modern day scientist like Stephen William Hawking (who contributed to the vast amount of today’s knowledge on cosmology and quantum gravity). Furthermore, science has become so advanced in this day-in-age that it has been split apart into different sections that each cover a broad range of technological information,…