Ptolemy

besides these stars were fixed stars. He postulated that the heavenly bodies, or the solar system did not move. This made complete sense at the time because it did account for every planetary motion and it was what the church believed. Claudius Ptolemy came up with this…

The Decline of Deutsche Physik Contextual Analysis of the Exodus of German Physicists in the Early Twentieth Century “So we see that we cannot attach any absolute signification to the concept of simultaneity, but that two events which, viewed from a system of co-ordinates, are simultaneous, can no longer be looked upon as simultaneous events when envisaged from a system which is in motion relatively to that system” In 1905 German physicist Albert Einstein published the first paper of a new…

Renaissance Science In Europe, people began to question things that surrounded them. They began to study Art, Science and Religion. People became more interested in human 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…

Alexander the Great led the Macedonian empire to be one of the best and successful empires of the Ancient World. He conquered and led his empire to be the largest. This is because of his great military skills, his ability to unite Greece with other countries, and being very knowledgeable from an early age. Alexander had great military skills because he knew how to handle situations and trick his opponents and also knew how to put courage into the hearts of his men. Alexander had united Greece…

In Dante’s Inferno, Dante Alighieri writes himself as a traveler who is traversing through the realm of the underworld with the Roman poet Vergil as his guide. In documenting his journey, Dante continually references and encounters both fictional characters and historic figures from the Greek, Roman and Catholic canon. In doing so, he brings the characters and figures back to life, allowing him to rewrite them in his own context and perspective. By reviving these characters and melding the…

Galileo’s Contributions Galileo Galilei, an Italian astronomer, played a major role in the scientific revolution. He laid the foundation of modern physics and astronomy. Initially, he studied medicine at the University of Pisa, but lost interest. Soon after that, Galileo developed an interest in mathematics and physics and began observing our solar system. While observing the solar system, he developed his own scientific method.. He later helped develop the modern scientific method, which…

Essays for Final Exam Part A. II. The decline of the Ghaznavids and the rise of the Seljuk empire, 1040-1200 The sultan-caliph relationship was established when the Turks entered Islam. They did not abolish the Caliphate, by replaced it with a new institution, the Sultanate. It was in the second half of the eleventh century that a third nation was added to the Islam empire. The Turks first entered the Caliphate four hundred years earlier when they were brought in as slaves or adventurers…

Neolithic (late Stone Age) communities in northeastern Africa exchanged hunting for agriculture and made early advances that paved the way for the later development of Egyptian arts and crafts, technology, politics and religion (including a great reverence for the dead and possibly a belief in life after death). Around 3400 B.C., two separate kingdoms were established: the Red Land to the north, based in the Nile River Delta and extending along the Nile perhaps to Atfih; and the White Land in…

To answer that answer is no the sun is the center and the planets circle around the sun. Sometime around B.C an astronomer named Ptolemy discovered the solar system. He had written down that the earth was the center and everything revolved around it right. Wrong 2,000 years later a guy named Copernicus saw that Ptolemy’s theory was wrong. Copernicus very distraught over his findings…

The ancient Roman and Greek societies received the most recognition but my interest resides elsewhere. The one civilization that drew much attention and had a lot of interaction with Rome and Greece is ancient Egypt. To the Roman and Greek peoples the Egyptian civilization was seen as a mysterious realm of exotica, power, and wealth. For these reasons I, just like the ancient world, wanted to know more about this culture. My main focus was the unique belief system the Egyptians possessed. I…