Vincenzo Galilei

Leon Battista Alberti, born in the 15th Century originally from Genoa was educated at Padua and Bologna in classics, mathematics and Church canon law. He was a typical Humanist and his education also made him well-versed in philosophy, science and the arts. In 1421, he attended the University of Bologna where he studied law, which he did not enjoy. Later on, he obtained a degree in canon Law which then led to his mathematical studies. His book, Della Pittura published around the year 1430 were written

The Father of Modern Science: Galileo Galilei Galileo Galilei is an important historical figure who is known as the Father of Modern Science. He was a polymath meaning he excelled in many sciences. He was a physicist, an astronomer, a mathematician, and an excellent inventor. Galileo greatly affected history and if he had not made his discoveries it is possible that we could be living in a very different world today. In the beginning… Galileo Galilei was born on February 15, 1564, in Pisa, Italy

unknown, a German-Dutch spectacle maker by the name of Hans Lippershey is often credited with its invention. Lippershey filed for the earliest known patent for a refracting telescope (see refractors below) in 1608. Soon after, famed astronomer Galileo Galilei built a similar telescope which provided about 3x magnification. Galileo used this and other telescopes he constructed for observing the sky, among other things, and soon turned their manufacture into a profitable business. Galileo found that the

The Scientific Revolution vs. The Enlightenment For centuries people had little clear understanding and knowledge about nature. Most theories in physics, astronomy, chemistry, and medicine were based on old concepts from Aristotle, Ptolemy, or Galen. The religion authority at that time much contributed to a slow advancement in these fields. Anatomy dissection was forbidden by the Church, and in astronomy, their believes could not be challenged. But in the 17th century knowledge in these fields took

bringing in his theory about the earth and the heavens, into a time and culture where he could have gotten hurt just by the idea of it. Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa, Italy, on February 15, 1564. He was named after an ancestor, a doctor and magistrate named Galileo. (Land 16) In honor, the rest of the family changed their names from Bonajuti to Galilei. Galileo showed early signs of a brilliant mind. He made toy for his friends at school; he enjoyed studying Greek and Latin; he had his fa-ther’s

I'm going to be defending my client Sir Isaac Newton. Sir Isaac Newton was born in England of 1463 on January 4. He was the only son of a local farmer also named Isaac Newton who died three months before Sir Isaac Newton was born. When Isaac Newton got older he started to study the study of gravity and experiment of how things fall how we get up and much more. Sir Isaac Newton made some pretty good discoveries And he was also very intelligent that is how he made them.The first thing that he made

Copernicus's De Revolutionibus of 1543 was dedicated to the Pope; yet ninety years later (1633) Galileo was tried by the inquisition for espousing Copernican views. How did this come about? Prior to the publication of De Revolutionibus, astronomical theories proposed that the earth was the centre of the universe and all the planets revolved around the earth. This was a view that was supported by both Aristotle and Ptolemy although Ptolemy's work was based upon observations and scientific methods

Galileo Galilei was an Italian astronomer physicist, engineer, philosopher and mathematician who played a major role in scientific revolution during the Renaissance. In February ,1615 Galileo Galilei wrote an important letter to Mary Christine of Lorraine. Galileo , the great Italian scientist who is known for his theory that the Earth revolves around the sun, wrote this essay addressed to Madame Christina of Lorraine, Grand Duchess of Tuscany. It was said that the Duchess criticized his theory during

Galileo’s book “The Dialogue on the Two Great World Systems” is a 1632 book written by Galileo in Italian in which he compares the Copernican system to the Ptolemaic system. In this book, Galileo baldly (some said at the time recklessly) advocated the heliocentric / Copernican world view, contrasting it to the prevailing geocentric / Ptolomeic model. In order to obtain permission to publish, Galileo made a promise to religious authorities (including his supporter Pope Urban VIII) he would present

The nuclear era advanced us in technology by hundreds of years. Men raced to get the prizes for doing the best. It was a competition of the countries. This new technology can help win wars everyone was after it. One particular Italian born-American scientist was a genius in this field. He has done so much for this era that if he didn’t do what he did we wouldn’t have won a war and we would still be stuck trying to figure nuclear power out. His name was Enrico Fermi. You may have heard of Fermi lab