Nicolaus Copernicus

Discoveries about dark matter, high-speed gas clouds, and a small disk around the core are now leading scientists to a new understanding of how our galaxy formed and the way it works, by John S. Gallagher III, Rosemary Wyse, and Robert Benjamin. Our understanding of the Milky Way has come a long way from the time people wove a story about the milk of a goddess spilled across the heavens. About 400 years ago, Galileo Galilei aimed a primitive telescope toward that area and wrote that through it…

It is quite apparent that the scientific discoveries made during the Baroque era have established a foundation for the modern age today. “In the seventeenth century, newly invented instruments allowed scientists to observe and measure natural phenomena with increasing accuracy” (Sayre, 22.2). These new inventions included scientific discoveries formed by Anton Van Leeuwenhoek, Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, and Galileo Galilei. Leeuwenhoek made a glass lens that magnified over 200 times. This is…

Galileo was a famous scientist that changed the world. Even though a lot of people doubted him he proved them all wrong. He had many interests like music, space, and gravity. Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa Italy February 15, 1564, the same year William Shakespeare was born and Michelangelo died (Hilliam,2005). Galileo was the oldest of seven children, and had four sisters and two brothers. He was homeschooled until the age of ten by Jacopo Borahini. He learned grammar and mathematics,…

craters on the surface of the moon. He saw that there were spots on to sun. Galileo was that there were multiple moons were orbiting Jupiter. He observed Venus moving through phases much like Earth’s moon. This information persuaded Galileo that Copernicus was right. Just as Jupiter’s moons orbited that giant planet other planets like Earth and Venus must orbit the sun. Galileo’s findings were explosive; they helped Copernican theory, which the government of the Catholic Church, the Vatican,…

Galileo Galilei created the telescope, used persistence to innovate ways to overcome the church (that was against him and didn’t want him to study space) and continue with improving the telescope and making a major breakthrough on studies of space. Galilei is extremely famous for improving the telescope. Most people think he invented the telescope, but he actually learned about a telescope created by Dutch eyeglass makers and fixed it up and made his own, better version. Sailors learned about…

In 1633, Galileo was convicted by the Roman Catholic Church for believing and voicing his opinion about the idea that the sun is the center of the universe. Galileo was an astronomer and he believed that the earth and planets revolved around the sun. Galileo is well known today, as is his life story. In Galileo’s Daughter, Sobel tells the story of Galileo as well as the tale of Galileo’s daughter, Maria Celeste. Although the book is named Galileo’s Daughter, the book is more about Galileo’s lift…

Dear Your Holiness, Galileo studied Copernicus’s theory about how the sun and other planets circulate around us. So then Galileo wanted to see for himself, he made his improved telescope and took a look at jupiter, then made a discovery of four planets that are circling around it. Galileo wrote many books as well and published them, most of them were about his theories and inventions. Galileo had made many discoveries and many inventions. He made mostly inventions because, after being banned…

Nicholas Copernicus’s writings date back to 1473 - 1543. At this specific time in history, Scripture was believed to be the divine source of knowledge; however, Copernicus had his own views that he was wary about sharing. As his “friends” persuaded him to share his beliefs and findings, he structured his argument carefully. Not only did he understand his audience, he argued that he was not the first individual to write down his words and thoughts that differed from Scripture. As the Bible…

Gerolamo Cardano's work made no big splash in his own time, because he worked at a time when mystical incantation was more valued than mathematical calculation. In other words, people did not look for the order in nature and did not develop numerical description of the events. Therefore, a theory of the effect of randomness on those events was bound to go unappreciated. The turning point for the scientifc revolution came in 1583, just seven years after Cardano's death. The scientifc revolution…

In my opinion, Galileo’s letter written to the Grand Duchess Mother was expressed with all honesty and seriousness concerning his beliefs of his discoveries. Also, he wanted to prove to others by demonstrating that the science of nature does not necessarily mean that he is against the faith. Of course every research has their straights and imperfections. In that period, man who were faithful to the Christian religion began to criticise Galileo due to his dissenting opinion on the motion of Earth…