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During the Scientific Revolution there was a para dime shift which caused an era of questioning and skepticism. The religious assumptions that guided the thought of the medieval scholars were abandoned in favor of mathematics and mechanical metaphors. This led to the Enlightenment period where many people challenged tradition and faith with scientific methods. This created a philosophical, spiritual, economical, and cultural revolution that would change the way people thought forever. Throughout…

The Accomplishments of Jean Jacques Rousseau Jean Jacques Rousseau was one of the few people who could be considered as a jack of all trades. He was a philosopher, author, and composer, and he also dabbled in botany and mathematics. He produced many wonderful works in his lifetime and had made several important contributions to music, literature, and political philosophy. His professional success belied the difficult childhood that he had. His mother died a few days after he was born, and his…

on dollar in today’s currency for the job” The human mind is truly an incredible thing, capable of speech, thought, critical thinking, and imagination, that make you thing that whom might discover all of this brilliant Ideas and turn it into a practical inventions that create the technology and made it exist and controls the world. One of these legendary people was Nickola Tesla, the most brilliant of all inventor of all. He Had mind of a resets kind, tesla had a different mindset, he was…

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…

Since the dawn of time, mathematics has been one of the most important fields of study in the world. Throughout the ages, the significance of mathematics has increased and has caused a plethora of new technological advances, such as the cell phone, computer, and calculator. One book that shows the importance of math is Ender’s Game, by Orson Scott Card. The novel tells the story of a small boy named Ender Wiggins who travels into outer space to fight alien invaders known as “buggers.” Ender is…

The Scientific Revolution caused a lot of conflicts with the Catholic Church that was slowly losing power in Europe. The Renaissance introduced a lot of different innovations, philosophies, and ways to think about religion and government. Humanism was a way of basing things on evidence and not supernatural. Also humanists thought that human choice changed history and not supernatural beings. Scientists like Copernicus and Galileo had troubles with the church trying to spread information on how…

How To Classify A Robot With the rise of technology the idea of robots and humans merging is not that farfetched. In the book, Genesis by Bernard Beckett, Anax (the student) is taking a test for The Academy, an exclusive in the post apocalyptic Republic. In front of three examiners, she gives everything she has, for her love of history, especially, the life of Adam Forde, a hero of an earlier rebellion. Anax assumes the test is to earn a spot at the Academy as she explains Adam’s imprisonment…

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…