Isaac Jogues

Long ago, people believed that the Earth was the center of the universe, and that all the stars, planets, and other celestial bodies orbited around it. However, as pivotal discoveries were made and new theories emerged, society gained a much more insightful understanding of the cosmos above. In the second century, an astronomer by the name of Claudius Ptolemy proposed his geocentric model of the solar system, which depicted Earth in the center of the universe and the planets and the Sun…

The ancient Mayan Civilization was one of history’s greatest. The Mayan achieved remarkable scientific innovations that our culture further benefits from today. These advances include that of the cosmic calendar, allowing the prediction of solar eclipses and the understanding of other celestial bodies, stunningly intelligent architectural temples and entire royal cities, engineering teachings, mathematical inventions, and advanced communications. The explanation of this phenomenal empire’s…

The Impact of Isaac Newton on Modern Science Historical Context Isaac Newton was born into a place and time that situated him in what was the beginning of the age of enlightenment. The mid to late 1600’s were the beginning of a movement that emphasized individualism and reason rather than tradition. Isaac Newton benefitted greatly by being born in this period in time rather than 50 years earlier where the same opportunities he had would not be available and the amount of information available…

Scientific Revolution:Galileo Vs. Copernicus What came first, the chicken or the egg? Obviously the egg. You can't have a chicken if you don't have an egg. Since copernicus first invented and researched his idea, he had more of an impact than galileo who added onto copernicus. If copernicus never had this idea, galileo's telescope could have never been hatched aka invented. Now it's not that Galileo Isn't important, it's just that copernicus had more of an impact with his heliocentric theory…

The person who had the greatest impact on their era was, Nicolas Copernicus because he theorized the concept of heliocentricity and proved that the catholic churches idea that the earth was geocentric was wrong. The new idea Copernicus presented called heliocentricity was basically everything the church didn’t want since it challenged their authority, and it made the Catholic Church look dishonest. Heliocentricity is the idea that sun is the center of the universe and earth and all the other…

While reading through the first scientific play of this class, analyzed the play and with same introspection develop questions. Brought up questions on philosophy versus love, or question about the connection between love and discovery. But, a constant thought that keeps coming through my mind with the idea of the concept of the effect of society on discovery. Then I considered that maybe because Emilia was a woman and outside of the norm of science, she comes up with her ideas. That's by…

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.…