Isaac Bashevis Singer

Leonardo Da Vinci was fascinated and interested in shadow projection in relation to painting. He questioned the inherent intricacies of light and optics. He married the complexities of reflection with the complexities of visual perception. His observations of optics and astronomy complicated his understanding of light. Leonardo had shown that astronomy and optics are connected. Da Vinci’s influence and studies covered across different streams of the renaissance era, from art, into science, into…

This essay will address how passion and rivalry influenced Galileo to the contribution of the development of our natural scientific knowledge through the discovery of telescope, Copernican system, Heliocentric Solar system, and the discovery of estimating the sun’s rotation rate. Galileo’s strong passion of trying to explain as well as understand our world through discoveries and the rivalry against Kepler were the non-scientific factors that made Galileo’s discoveries all possible. In the…

In world history we have come across many different changes.Revolution can bring about both positive and negative affect also political and economical effect.There were many changes in the scientific revolution and the Industrial Revolution. Both revolutions had an impact on the world. The scientific revolution is the emerge of modern science during the early modern period when developments in mathematics,physics,biology and chemistry transformed views of society and nature also the way human…

Galileo was a man with confidence in what he believed in, but how did he express that? As Galileo Galilei once said “I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use”(BrainyQuote.com). In this essay, I will describe Galileo’s life, his revolutionary idea and how his idea worked, and its importance to the world. Revolutionary ideas are not easy to come by, They are even harder to make into a reality.…

The Scientific Revolution had many innovations. It happened during the middle Ages and some of the most famous scientists were alive during this time. The scientific revolution happened because people started doubting their old beliefs. This encouraged new ways of thinking and the development of new scientific instruments. During this time variables for math and the decimal system were introduced. Also the heliocentric theory was introduced contradicting the old theory saying that the earth was…

Robert Hooke Robert Hooke was known for many things that have affected the world we live in, from the discovery of certain cell parts to laws that he has made. He was an important person to our history. Even though Robert Hooke was a philosopher, architect, experimenter, etc. He also had an interesting life before he became known to science. He discovered many different things, and has affected biology and how we see things in a different way. Robert Hooke was born in England on July 28…

Rene Descartes, born in the late 1500’s, was a well-known French, natural philosopher. During his time period, the Age of Enlightenment, the Scientific Revolution was shifting the world. Thinkers and discovers such as Copernicus and Galileo from the method of scholasticism in the medieval times, brought new studies of modern science to this era. Scholasticism is what are past down truths that have been assumed from our knowledge of religion and philosophy throughout time. Scholasticism should…

In an era of human history, when nearly all aspects of life were dominated by the Catholic churches’ teachings and beliefs, a man looked to the heavens above and discovered one of the fundamental truths of the universe. Historically, Europe of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, was a time filled with great advancements in thought and culture. Despite the influence and impacts of the Renaissance and Enlightenment periods, throughout the western world, the Catholic tradition still held…

thought highly of and deserves to be so. It is something earned rightfully based on achievements and actions. There are many scientists who exemplify honor through their work. One of these is Isaac Newton. His accomplishments, recognition from the community, and impact on the science world define him as honorable. Isaac Newton accomplished many things over his lifetime as a scientist. He is best known for his work on motion and gravity. He discovered and wrote Newton’s three laws of motion…

How was the world formed? How did humans become prominent in the world today? These are questions that get asked everyday and a very select few of people can answer them. Out of the select few, one stands out the most and that is Carl Sagan. Carl Sagan is a very prominent astronomer, cosmologist, and an author. Carl Sagan is well known for his books: Cosmos, Broca’s Brain, The Dragons of Eden, and Contact. He also narrated show called Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. He is also well known for his…