Vincenzo Galilei

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…

Heretics 1000 Years Apart If a person is a heretic does it mean the person’s idea is indeed wrong? Galileo was ridiculed and persecuted by the church because of his observations and teaching. Later the church did come to accept his ideology but it was years after Galileo’s death. Tertullian wrote a letter on the “Proscription Of Heretics” talks about heresy and “Galileo’s Indictment and Abjuration” states the reasons why Galileo was a heretic. The documents are about 1000 years apart but the…

Daniel Bernoulli, proclaimed to be the greatest out of all the Bernoulli in his family, made the basis for the kinetic theory of gases, applied the idea of Boyle’s law, worked on elasticity with Leonhard Euler, the development of the Euler-Bernoulli beam equation, and one of the most important Bernoulli’s Principle which is critical to aerodynamics. At the beginning of Daniel’s life he wasn’t allowed to choose what he wanted to be or be able to pursue the career he wanted, but this shaped the…

Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa, Italy on February 15, 1564. He was a gifted astronomer and physicist. Many of Galilei’s inventions resonate today, more than four-hundred years later. \This innovative man invented many things that are still used. He is the known creator of the thermometer (1606) and the telescope (1609). He also generated the concept of Venus’s phases (1610), Jupiter’s satellites (1610), Saturn’s rings (1610), and proved Copernicus’s heliocentric theory (1616). In his earlier…

Inventor of the barometer, as well as an Italian mathematician and physicist, Evangelista Torricelli was a great scientist in the times of the Renaissance. At a young age, Torricelli lost his father. He went to study with a Camaldolese monk and also his uncle, Benedetto Castelli. It was there when he was taught mathematics, mechanics, hydraulics, and astronomy. In return of all the gifts he received, Torricelli became Castelli’s assistant. Torricelli became increasingly more interested in…

Thesis: Galileo's works mainly contributed to the new perspective of the universe and his work and ideas contributed to humanity. These new perspectives and ideas all started with Copernicus and many other revolutionists expanded on his ideas and theories. First paragraph: The start of the scientific revolution began with Nicolaus Copernicus. Copernicus created chaos with his books and theories. He believed in the heliocentric view of the universe, which was that the earth revolves around the…

We’ve all heard of Galileo, Newton, Copernicus,but there are much more Renaissance scientists who you never get to learn about. Some you hear about, some you don’t. Tycho Brahe is unknown to most but now you can hear about his part of history. Tycho Brahe was a Danish scientist who revolutionized astronomy with his work and made groundwork for greater scientists ahead of him. Tycho was born on December 14, 1546 in Denmark under a wealthy king and queen. He was an aristocrat and learned…

Nicholas Copernicus Nicholas Copernicus was a famous astronomer who is credited with the early 16th-century discovery that the sun is the center of the universe and that Earth and several other planets orbit it. Copernicus' discovery has now become known as the heliocentric solar system. Nicholas was a polyglot and polymath. He obtained a doctorate in canon law and was also a mathematician, astronomer, physician, classics scholar, translator, governor, diplomat, and economist. Nicholas…

Nicolaus Copernicus was one of the most innovative astronomers during renaissance, he is best known as “The founder” of modern astronomy. He became famous thanks to his studies on the sky and the revolutionary motion of the earth finding out that the theory of geocentrism, at that time the one believed truth by people, was wrong. Instead of it he proposed the theory of heliocentrism which, in contrast to the geocentric one, proposes the sun at the center of universe instead of the earth. After…

At the time of Galileo a Dutch inventor invented something that can look for far away objects. It was a spyglass which Galileo took and improved upon. His improved version was a telescope. According to James Owen, “..but his version boosted the viewing power to eight-times magnification(James Owen).” This shows that Galileo made the telescope stronger so people can see distant objects. His telescope was better than the ones at the time. Also Victoria Jaggard wrote, “But in the fall of 1609…