Isaac Asimov

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…

Ava Hutchins#15 November 16, 2015 Social Studies/ ELA Mrs. Popolizio/Ms. Polini Ancient Islamic Astronomy Our century is currently the most advanced time period in history because we are so advanced in math, technology, astronomy, etc. The more we learn, the more advanced we are. Now think about the civilizations before us, they have made some discoveries that may seem dull to us, but they are actually extremely important. Without the little discoveries of astronomy, would we even…

is afraid to die. God promise many times to Abraham numerous offspring, but because his wife is barren, Abraham misunderstood the promise of God and conceive Ismael with the housemaid of his wife, Hagar. Despite years of unbelief, God gives Abraham Isaac, who is son of Sarai his wife. This miracle is the central part of the story leading Abraham to trust totally in God, as he saw that God kept His promises. (Sheriffs, D. C.…

The Life of Leonhard Euler Leonhard Euler was born on April 15, 1707, in Basel, Switzerland. He was the first of six children in a minister's family. His father, Paul Euler, a Protestant preacher, taught young Euler mathematics but wanted him to be a minister. Paul Euler married Margaret Brucker, the daughter of another Protestant minister. He had two younger sisters named Anna Maria and Maria Magdalena (newworldencyclopedia). He died on September 18, 1783 from a cerebral hemorrhage. Euler…

Mathematics: The Greatest Legacy from Ancient Greece to the Modern World The greatest legacy of Ancient Greece to the modern world is mathematics. Ancient Greece was the source of great mathematicians like Archimedes, Pythagoras, Euclid and Eratosthenes who provided the modern world with a strong base to the knowledge we have today. They gave the modern world hydrostatics, the volume of a sphere and the calculation of pi which is used to design impressive sea vessels, industrial tanks and…

Newton encompasses a majority of the Eureka myth and perfectly explains why the Eureka myth simply cannot hold any sort of veracity. Accrediting the theory of gravity to a mysterious occurrence of inspiration, namely a eureka moment, implies that Isaac Newton did nothing to theorize the law of gravity, but rather it was given to him with no supplementary research and experiments. This is a critical flaw in the Eureka…

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.…

William Oughtred was born in Eton, Buckinghamshire, England in 1574 and died on June 30, 1660, in Albury, Surrey. He was not only an English mathematician and an inventor; he was a vicar of Shalford and then became an Anglican priest. He received schooling from Eton School where he received a bachelor’s degree in 1596 and master’s degree from King's College in 1600. He is considered one of the greatest mathematical teachers and the world's great mathematicians from the seventeenth century. He…

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…