Since the beginning of time, humans have had a fascination with cosmos. Many great scientists have helped with our lust and wondering of the great beyond. For example Galileo Galilei- a sixteenth-century Italian Astronomer, who invented his telescope to help cure his curstoutiy of the stars in the sky. Scientists with his common interests are what made it possible to travel into an outer domain. When looking at space travel, it is important to look at what made the soviets decide to travel into…
Galileo's lived a successful and made many accomplishments in life; creating world changing inventions and perspectives of the world. He received support from his family and from the family he grew. He was the one of six siblings, born in Pisa, Italy February 15, 1564. As he grew up and his family moving around, he decided to travel. Even though he didn’t settle during this time but once he began his travels he met a beautiful women Marina Gamba in Venice. He didn’t quit settle down, but in the…
The Medici family, sometimes referred to as the House of Medici, rose to power by starting the Medici bank in Florence, 13th. Through that bank, they became one of the wealthiest families of the Renaissance era. The Medici family is well known for their support in architecture and arts. They would pay artists commissions in return for major works of art. The Medici family had a major influence on the arts of the Renaissance era as they used their wealth to help artists focus on their work…
Tycho Brahe was born in 1546 in a Danish high nobility family, during a time in which Denmark had just transitioned from Roman Catholic to Lutheran, and had emerged as a dominant power that not only covered the area of modern Denmark, but of Norway and Iceland. Tyco was raised by his uncle Jorgen, who wanted a child so dearly that he abducted Tycho from Tycho’s parents. Born to one of the most prominent families in Denmark, Tycho’s led an early life with privilege and indulgence. He was educated…
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Hobbes thought that all events in the world, without limitation, can be described regarding the actions and interactions of physical bodies. He did not think the soul, or in the brain as separate from the heart, or in any of the other spiritual and mystical entities in which different authors have thought. Alternately, he saw individual beings as binding devices, with even their dreams and passions operating according to natural laws and connections of cause and effect, movement, and feeling. As…
“My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.” -Stephen Hawkings. This is exactly what Stephen Hawking is working to do by piecing together parts of the universe. Stephen Hawking was born on January 8, 1942, in Oxford, England. When Hawking was young, he showed a strong passion for science and the sky. When he was 21, he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as ALS. ALS is a very progressive disease…
As a diverse conglomerate of living, pensive intellectuals, and humans, we live in an ever-changing society that faces conflicts and controversies on a daily basis. Those altercations could last for quite a short time or could span over multiple days, months, years, or even decades. In addition, they might take on a grandiose and visceral importance to the masses, or instead, they may act as a common issue, like interpersonal and intrapersonal conflicts. Conflicts of interests are a defining…
It’s an honor that I successfully invited Plato, one of the Big Three of Greek philosophy, to Cemetery News for an interview. Editor: Mr. Plato, you used to firmly believe that there were two realms and forms only existed in the realm of forms. Forms were incorporeal, intangible and insensible while objects in our world, which was the material realm, were imperfect replica of those forms (Lindberg 13); forms are regular geometrical shapes like triangles (Lindberg 26). Now that you’ve read some…
In the movie, A.I.: Artificial Intelligence, by Steven Spielberg, there are two dominant groups of beings: flesh-and-blood humans, and nuts-and-bolts humans (also known as mechas, or mechanical people). In this dystopian future-world, humans produce and destroy mechas as they like because to some, a mecha is only a machine and cannot feel emotions or pain, even if they can show outward manifestations of emotions and pain. David is a mechanical child that is programmed to not have this…