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    Galileo’s work affected the development of science in his creative thinking. As stated in my first site “Galileo's contribution to our understanding of the universe was significant not only in his discoveries, but in the methods he developed and the use of mathematics to prove them.” Adding on to this quote Galileo used his knowledge of mathematics and incorporate it into his scientific work. Using mathematics in science was a major advancement to technology of the modern day. Galileo made telescoped

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    While on the surface the facts in the Newton case and in the variation may look very similar there is one difference that could lead to the cases being decided differently. In the original case Newton is flying from the Bahamas to Luxembourg. The captain of the flight made an unscheduled stop in New York City at JFK International Airport. Shortly after two officers boarded the plane and asked Newton if he had a weapon on him. When Newton answered yes he was arrested and charged with a violation

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    Galileo Galileo Galilei became devoted once hearing about Copernicus’s theory that the earth revolves around the sun and finding proof that it was true. Around the 17th century Galileo made a refracting telescope, which he now is very famous for. The refracting telescope works by bending light through glass lenses so that it forms an image. This telescope focuses on light, making distant objects appear brighter, clearer and more magnified. In the refracting telescope there are two lenses. The

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    The brain is a marvelous instrument that controls the psychological and ethical reasoning of the human mind that Immanuel Kant so laboriously educated himself in. It is written that Immanuel Kent suffered from memory loss in his later years and he suffered greatly from losing his instrument as a pianist suffers losing their instrument due to arthritis. So, it began on April 22, 1724 in Konigsberg, Prussia, now known as Kaliningrad, Russia, that Immanuel Kant was introduced to the world by his parents

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    The idea that the universe is expanding was introduced to me as a given, an understood idea that I would come to understand in later years, not unlike many other principles of science as a fact so fundamental it was discovered or derived centuries ago. However, Hubble’s Law, a concept so central to our basic understanding of the universe, made its debut just under a century ago alongside our adoption of what we consider incredibly modern events such as the Industrial Revolution, the advent of motion

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    astronomer. Using his own designed of the telescope, Galilleo, discovered many discoveries in astronomy. Such discoveries were, sunspots on the Sun and craters and mountains on the Moon, rings of Saturn, and the phases of Venus. Coming alone, Newton invented a mathematical tool that he called "fluctions", now known as calculus. He also in astronomy published his laws, others would follow them in the future. We now not all the way but grasp the world around us and put together God’s sciences

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    Early 19th century Europe was filled with numerous scientific advances in the field of biology. For Jean Baptiste Lamarck, this was no exception. Through his personal life, scientific contributions, and the impact/knowledge that would transpire through his theories, Lamarck was an outstanding scientist within the biological community, even if he wasn’t always recognized as such. Born on August 1st 1744 in Bazentin-le-Petit, France, Lamarck’s childhood was filled with copious recounts of military

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    The scientific revolution was a time period considered to be known as new way of thinking about the natural world. The important details to note about it are the ones that sparked the beginning of it. There were many things that are believed to have lead up to it, but a few things are; the Italian Renaissance, understanding of ancient Arabic text and better use of scientific instruments. The Italian Renaissance was a time of achievements and cultural change that took place between the 14th and 16th

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    One of the greatest scientists of the industrial age was named Joseph Louis Gay- Lussac. He was born on December 6, 1778, in St. Leonard located in central France. His parents named Antoine Gay-Lussac and Leonadre Bouriquet also gave birth to four other children, he however was the eldest of the five children. Joseph Gay-Lussac was born in the French Revolution, and it had greatly affected his early childhood. Two of his greatest roles was taken away from him due to the social and political disruption

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    Galileo The discovery of how gravity properly worked impacted the science world. With this discovery it helped with modern day science and their experiments. The aim of Galileo’s test was to improve on Aristotles law that heavier objects fell faster than lighter objects. The result was, it didn’t matter that the objects were heavier or lighter, they both landed at the same time. Galileo in this experiment he tested how gravity worked, he did this by going to the top of the leaning tower of Pisa

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