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    Galileo Galilei made contributions to the fields of physics, astronomy, cosmology, mathematics, and philosophy. He was an extraordinarily intelligent man and had a big part during the Enlightenment. He made his first discovery in 1581 while he was a student at the University of Pisa, where he originally went into medicine but switched his focus to mathematics. He described the rules that governed the motion of a pendulum. He was then the chair of mathematics at the Universities of Pisa and Padua

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    Einstein's Big Idea

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    In the documentary “Einstein’s Big Idea”, viewers enter the world of E=mc² and the people and discoveries behind that important equation. Albert Einstein came to the conclusion of E=mc² but not without the help of many important figures who came before him. Scientists like Michael Faraday, who rose from being a person of basic education to one of the greatest scientists of time and started the revolution of energy; Emilie du Chatelet, a female physicist who used Leibnitz’s idea of squaring and

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    Galileo’s application of his new version of the telescope was the most important advancement to modern science. Galileo’s telescope opened a window of opportunity for astronomers to observe beyond the naked eye. This new technology would later be developed so that the common household could have access to an instrument to see the night sky, enabling future generations to ask their own questions and wonder about the universe. Galileo’s telescope helped us recognize how we know him today, as one of

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    Yesterday I got a new neighbor. He says he is a member of the flat earth society. But he is very wrong. The earth is not flat at all, it is round. I’m going to figure out a way to make him believe that the earth is not flat. Then he will not be a member of the flat earth society anymore and he can go prove to his friends that it is not flat. Well to start off, Earth is round and everyone knows that. The earth was formed from clouds and dust which created stars and other things. The earth’s core

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    “Energy Baby!” This was often heard echoing throughout the arena after Congress Executive Director, Richard Rossi, exclaimed this on the first night of the Congress. “Energy Baby!” was told to the audience, so they would be excited and energized as each speaker came out and presented. Although this was the original intention of the saying, upon writing this essay I realized that “Energy Baby!” could also be used to describe the advances in science and technology that was presented. The “new” ideas

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    Otto Neugebauer was one of the famous Australian-American mathematicians who are also a historian of science. Through his study, he was able to acknowledge that Babylonian basically knew much more when it comes to mathematics and astronomy. Neugebauer is also recognized as one of the most original and also the most productive scholars of the history of science. On how Babylonians astronomy developed over its three periods. It is said that they made observations astronomically. And thus they were

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    Chapter 2 On the off chance that the development of the PC denotes a bona fide change in the level of progress then we ought to anticipate that it will be joined by logical transformations that deliver profound and essential philosophical advancements, radical changes in our comprehension of the universe and in our connection to it. Positively, the Renaissance time frame was set apart by recently such a major change of our comprehension of the universe. The model logical upset of the Renaissance

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    The Scientific Revolution was a movement that took place in the seventeenth century. It was a period when new ideas on physics, astronomy, biology, chemistry and much more led to s rejection of doctrines and led the foundation of modern science. The Scientific Revolution ruined the Medieval view of the universe and established the scientific method (231). Medieval view of the world was based on religion. The Scientific Revolution made people became reasonable and formed a worldview based on facts

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    Copernicus Vs Galileo

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    The Government of Galileo's time, the Church, placed him under house arrest in 1633. Galileo was tried after publishing a book explaining his belief in Copernicus's model of our solar system, which went against what the church taught. Many believed that we (Earth) were the center with the known planets revolving round, while Copernicus and Galileo believed the Solar System was Sun centered (Heliocentric Model). Galileo and Copernicus scientifically proved they were right by watching the Constellations

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    The writer gives three specific aspects of the “Legacy of the Scientific Revolution” which stem from the ideas of absolutism. The first part of the legacy is “the increasing presence of an attitude of mechanization toward the processes of nature” which is how machinery is applied to nature to help understand it better. This was done in many ways, one example is the invention of the first telescopes. In Holland lenses of different shapes were combined by eyeglass makers to see the sky more detailed

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