Johannes Kepler

Review of Literature I. Introduction- History of Ganymede Ganymede is the largest moon of Jupiter and in the entire Solar System. Ganymede is also the only moon to have a magnetosphere, which according to NOAA is the region of space surrounding an astronomical object in which charged particles are controlled by that object's magnetic field. Ganymede was discovered on January 7th, 1610 by Galileo Galilei, an Italian astronomer that played a huge role in the scientific revolution during the…

practical use of the first principles of the camera in 350 BC and it wasn’t till 1050 AD that Shen Kuo actually experimented with the camera obscura for the first time. From there it led to it’s official use verbally in 1604 by astronomer Johannes Kepler. During the 1890’s the camera obscura was finally gaining high levels of attention due to what it was capable of doing and their purposes as well. It’s creation allowed Joseph Nicephore Niepce to take the first photograph ever of his view…

The Renaissance was probably one of the most known epochs in human history. But what most don’t know about is the Baroque Era and the Enlightenment Era. There were a lot of events that occurred during this time period that make it slightly different than the Renaissance, and a lot of it had to do with social aspects. One of the most controversial events that was happening was the Thirty Years’ War. According to the textbook, it took place “from 1618 to 1648, a series of wars raged throughout…

should draw logical conclusions about what they see when carefully observing the world. These ideas were what started off the Scientific Revolution. There were many scientists that contributed to the Scientific Revolution such as Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler and Galileo Galilei but Sir Isaac Newton was one of the most influential scientists who ever lived. In 1687, Sir Isaac Newton published a book called Principia Mathematica. This books publishing marked the high point of the Scientific…

In an era of human history, when nearly all aspects of life were dominated by the Catholic churches’ teachings and beliefs, a man looked to the heavens above and discovered one of the fundamental truths of the universe. Historically, Europe of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, was a time filled with great advancements in thought and culture. Despite the influence and impacts of the Renaissance and Enlightenment periods, throughout the western world, the Catholic tradition still held…

planet in the night sky. Is it just stars? Are there planets outside of our home, Earth? The answer is yes not only are there planets, but moons, stars, galaxies and other solar systems. Thanks to great astronomers such as Galileo, Copernicus , Johannes Kepler, Edwin Hubble and many other great minds we have made these ground-breaking discoveries. Not until the latter half of the 20th century did we discover we could not only observe this great mystery that is space from earth but maybe we could…

The fate of the world changed when the space race happened in the mid 1900’s. The space race was really important because it helped make headway in space discovery. There might not be space stations or satellites if it didn’t happen. Not only was it a competition between different countries, but it helped scientists from all over the world learn more about outer space! The Space Race Era took place between 1957 and 1990. President Eisenhower created NASA in 1958 and the mission was to advance…

anatomy, cutting up dead bodies to find out what’s inside. This was the beginning of the Renaissance. Then Early Scientists wanted to share their ideas, but writing was expensive and required a lot of time and material, so a smart man known as Johannes Gutenberg invented the first Printing Press, that allowed people to share and learn information about their interests. For Centuries, the Church had handled all matters related to Art, Science and Religion. The Classical Period had mostly been…

Whitney Noonan Philosophy of Revolution 2/29/2016 At the beginning of the scientific era people were not only shocked but also spiritually threatened by the new discovery that the Sun was actually in the center not the Earth. The “new philosophy” (since there was no word for “science” at the time) is the Copernican revolution. In 1610 Galileo had published the world’s first scientific bestseller, The Starry Messenger. This revolutionary work argued that the heavens are not organized the way…

The Renaissance was a time in Italy of rebirth with art, literature, and science (Frey 317). An advancement in the science field was astronomy. A great scientist named Nicolaus Copernicus had his theories and started up the growth of science in the Renaissance Era. Had it not been for Nicolaus Copernicus’ theories that the Sun was the center of the universe and that there is planetary motion, people would still think differently about the solar system we live in today. Nicolaus Copernicus’…