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    The logical revolution helped the way in science, Copernicus hypothesis gave us the capacity to never surrender and ultimately conflicting with the catholic church, demonstrated to us the best thing ever, to never quit coming clean regardless. The challenge to the truth the light to away and to never quit coming clean, this all materialized in view of exclusive one researcher, the eye of science himself Galileo Galilei! Conceived on February 15, 1564, in Pisa, Italy, Galileo Galilei was a…

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    also was widely versed in many different other areas. He was a musical theorist and well as a musical composer. Jean Jacques Rousseau was born on June 28,1712 in Geneva, Switzerland. His mothers name was Suzanne Bernard and his fathers name was Isaac Rousseau. When Rousseau was born, his mother…

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    Isaac Newton was born in Woolsthorpe, England on January 4th, 1643. He was born extremely premature and wasn’t expected to live, but he did and lived to make many amazing scientific and mathematical discoveries. Isaac Newton is known worldwide for many famous discoveries. He was an extremely intelligent man. Some of the most famous of his discoveries included discovering lots of information in optics, motion, mathematics, and a ton of laws and rules for physics that we use almost everyday today.…

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    Gravitation - Movement, or a tendency to move, towards a centre of gravity, as in the falling of bodies to the earth. (Oxford Dictionary) Introduction : For centuries, mankind has always been fascinated by the celestial bodies. The motion of the stars and planets were at once a symbol of the divine order of the universe and a profound challenge for human understanding. For the ancient Greeks the separation between the terrestrial and celestial realms was absolute--the downward motion of…

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    church, which led them to find another way to administrate social order. In this way, men gave their minds to science, at first working consequently with old theology, then basing themselves in empiricism. In the late XVII century, it was clear that Isaac Newton’s science was stable and widely accepted, also, John Locke had proved that philosophy represented the operations of the human soul, recreating the simpler impressions into complex systems of ideas. These two big changes, one scientific…

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    In Pursuit of the Unknown by Ian Stewart is about seventeen equations that have not only impacted mathematics and science but have also contributed to human advances to a great extent. According to Stewart, we generally disregard the historical link between mathematics and technological progress but this connection is integral to any complete understanding of human history. These equations are essentially based on the patterns we find in the world around us and using them one can make sense and…

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    While attending physics class today, Jon learned about the story of a brilliant scientist, Sir Isaac Newton among with one of his most famous questions, “If the apple falls, does the moon also falls?” Born on December 25, 1642, Sir Isaac Newton was a renowned english physicists and mathematicians, who was best known for his law of gravitational forces. In 1665, as young Isaac sits under an apple tree, he realized the fall of an apple. He proclaimed that the force pulling the apple onto the…

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    Galileo Galilei, known by his first name Galileo, was a mathematician and astronomer, born in Pisa, Italy, in 1564. He credited with the development of the nautical spyglass into the telescope which enabled him to observe the universe as no one had before. This advancement allowed him gather evidence for, arguably, the most controversial idea of his time, heliocentrism, or the astronomical model in which the sun is the center of our solar system. Consequently, He was accused of heresy by the…

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    Sir Isaac Newton, born on the 4th of January, 1643; was an astronomer, philosopher, scientist, and a mathematician and physicist who developed the principles of modern physics. The Scientific Revolution of the 17th century credited him as a genius--his work was so brilliant and advanced that he was the first ever scientist to be knighted, which explains the "Sir" preceding his name. Although his discoveries would change the world of science, he did not care the fame that came with them. He was…

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    The mathematician that i pick was Albert Einstein March 14, 1879- April 18, 1955 . He was a very smart and intelligent man who had many great ideas that has had an impact on the world today. The reason i picked him is because although he had a slight disability, he was still very successful in life and was one of the most known people from the past. Not only was he wise in math, but he was also very wise in mathematics. Albert Einstein had a very different but unique personality and way of doing…

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