Heliocentrism

Galileo’s Tribulations and Success: Rome and Recantation The seventeenth century introduced enormous changes and advances in science, nature, and revolutionary ideas. Galileo Galilei, a controversial figure in the 1600s, was a famous scientist, writer, and researcher. He was born February 1564 in Pisa Italy, the oldest of six children. His father was a composer and musician. Throughout his life, Galilei thoroughly studied topics such as speed, pendulums, and telescopes. Galilei concluded after…

Galileo Galilei was born on February 15, 1564, in Pisa, Italy. He was the first of six children born to Vincenzo Galilei, a well-known musician and music theorist, and Giulia Ammannati. In 1574, his family moved to Florence, where Galileo began his formal education at the Camaldolese monastery in Vallombrosa. Galileo Galilei is remembered for several things but one in particular was making observations that essentially set the foundation for modern physics and astronomy. Galileo was never…

Summary Assignment #1 Sunspot Cycle: A Brief History In 1610, shortly after viewing the sun for the first time through a telescope, Galileo became the first European to observe sunspots, which are visibly darker, cooler areas on the sun. A little over 200 years later (in 1843), amateur German astronomer Samuel Heinrich Schwabe discovered that there is a cyclical, eleven, and by extension to a full cycle, twenty-two year pattern to the variation of sunspot counts known as the sunspot cycle. In…

I will be conducting a Science, Technology & Society (STS) analysis, an invention. Which is the Telescope, I have chose this invention because i have a interest in Astronomy History. One of the earliest known working telescope appeared in the year of 1608, this is invented by a smart guy named Hans Lippershey. Hans was a spectacle maker, was also known as Johann Lippershey or also was just sometimes called Lippershey. He was born in Germany Wesel, in the year of 1570. Sadly passed away in…

With the help of Tycho Brahe's observations, Kepler discovered that the orbits of the planets can be described with a curve. By trial and error, he discovered that an ellipse with the sun could accurately describe the path of a planet about the sun. Ellipses (which does not look like the usual circle, but as an egg) is described mainly by the length of its two axes. A circle has the same diameter if we measure it across or up and down. However, an ellipse has diameters of different lengths. The…

Three people with three ideas, and a whole bunch of time between them. Beginning with Ptolemy and his claim that the earth was must be the center of the solar system based on basic evidence that the stars in the sky seemed to rotate around the earth. Including the sun that rose in the east and set in the west every day. Theis model of the solar system was widely accepted as fact for over 2,000 years and was later named the geocentric model. Two scientists that came later on changed the world's…

Copernicus was the most prominent astronomer in history of the world. He landed in the Renaissance period in North Poland from 1473 to 1543. Copernicus was cared for by his paternal uncle and attended multiple universities before, he died in 1543. Copernicus brought up the idea of a heliocentric solar system, and wrote a book that is still considered the best book ever written on astronomy. He has prompted the work of many scientists after him and we still believe in a heliocentric universe.…

Have you ever wondered what sparked the study of magnetism and changed the Ptolemaic model of the solar system with the Earth at its core? The Ptolemaic model was the dominant model of the solar system made up of the systems created by Aristotle and Ptolemy. From Ancient Greece in 4th Century B.C up until the late 16th century/early 17th century that model was used to show that every planet moves in a system of two spheres. These spheres were called deferent and epicycle, which both rotated…

“Man must rise above the Earth—to the top of the atmosphere and beyond—for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives.” Before the seventeenth and sixteenth century, the universe was based on the Ptolemaic System, which was developed by Ptolemy, Aristotle's theories, and Christian theology. However, as the astronomical revolution began to disembark, the Ptolemaic Theory was contradicted. The work, mathematical synthesis, and observations of astronomers such as Copernicus,…

I decided to research discovery and exploration and William Herschel's discovery of Uranus. I had a lot of fun researching this. William Herschel was an organist for part of his life, and when he settled in England, he decided to expand his interests in music. One particular author of music theory, Professor Robert Smith, also wrote an article on optics and telescopes, and this is what inspired Herschel to adopt a love for astronomy. Most professional astronomers of his day focused on…