Johannes Kepler

original model was as simple as possible. It was, in fact simpler than today’s models. However, the narrative was barren. As the data became more precise, the necessary adjustments to the model became more complicated. Four hundred years ago, Johannes Kepler announced his empirical laws (discovered experimentally) that accurately described motions of the planets. Three hundred years ago, Isaac Newton improved Kepler’s laws and provided many of the mathematical formulas that allow…

The journey of science has come a long way in analyzing how knowledge developed over thousands of years and continue to expands its boundaries. It changed the perspective of life and defined roles in the society. All the literatures that were written and the scientific experiments through observations and performance have proven to expand the cultural beliefs of enlightenment and changed how humanity should be define by. Some of these contributions that influenced the approach of life include…

Church doctrine. Thus, supporters of Copernicus 's ideas were persecuted by the Church until the mid-1600s, when those ideas became widely accepted.” (Scientific Revolution) At the start of the Scientific Revolution Copernicus, Galileo, and Kepler studied the Earth and the Heavens with new inventions such as the eyeglasses, microscopes, and telescopes. Nicholas Copernicus developed the heliocentric theory. The model places the Sun at the center of the solar system. This upset the church 's…

Lucian of Samosata is well known to be the Supreme Ancient Greek Satirist and one of the most famous satirists in European history. He was born at Samosata (Samsat), a small town in the Adyman Province of Turkey on the Euphrates during the Ancient Roman Era. When Lucian was 14 years of age, he began working on his uncle’s statue shop as an apprentice sculptor. When he was on his early apprenticeship he accidentally broke a marble by striking it too hard with his chisel and his uncle gave him…

Isaac Newton is the person who had discovered the three laws of motion. At a young age newton would not play with the other kids, instead he spent his free time making wooden models, kites, sundials, he even made a water clock. When Newton got older he had attended Cambridge University from 1661-1665. He soon retreated to his grandparents house where he would soon start the study of calculus and the universal gravitation. I will start with how he discovered the laws of motion. Newton was a…

Then came the printing press, invented by Johannes Gutenberg. Printing, which was previously rare, began to become more popular in government and business. The Church overprinted the Bible to push their religion on others, but people wanted more variety of books. As more books were printed, more…

John Locke (1632 - 1704) was an English philosopher and the main representative of the English movement of empiricism. His political philosophy heavily influenced the American Revolution, the Constitution of the United States, the French Revolution and the first Constitution of France, and the constitutions of most liberal states. Locke's philosophy is based on the theory of knowledge that is based on empiricism and materialism. All of Locke’s ideas come from two sources: external experience…

While the modern vision of scientific civilization, developed by Sir Francis Bacon in 17th century England, and the ways science is actually practiced in the world today both pursue objective truth, the modern vision and today’s scientific practices differ in their methods of pursuing truth. The modern vision and the ways science is actually practiced today both pursue objective truth in order to benefit humanity. The modern vision of science pursued truth using experience, which differed from…

Man Isn’t Center of the Universe Anymore? Before the sixteenth century, the common knowledge of astronomy was based off the Pythagoras, Aristotle, and the Ptolemaic model. They said the Earth was the center of the universe and everything, including the sun, planets, and the heavenly spheres rotated about its center. Aristotle established the principle that there were only seven planets considered wandering stars: Earth, moon, sun, Venus, Mars, Mercury, and Jupiter. Anything besides these stars…

Many consider Isaac Newton to be not only one of the greatest figures in the history of science, but also one of the supreme intellects ever produced by the human race. Besides his explanation of the laws of motion and gravitation and his discoveries concerning light and color, his development of calculus is regarded as the greatest creation in all of mathematics. (Bruno) More than two centuries have passed since Isaac Newton’s death, yet his legacy still lives on science. In the same year that…