Galileo Galilei: The Impact Of The Scientific Revolution
The scientific revolution caused a major impact on our history today. This revolution unfolded roughly between the years of 1500-1750, stating with Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543) to Isaac Newton9 (1642-1727). (http://users.clas.ufl.edu/ufhatch/pages/03-sci-rev/sci-rev-teaching/03sr-definition-concept.htm) This revolution drastically changes the viewpoints of society by changing concepts that were widely accepted since ancient times. Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton were all major figures hope not only helped change the mind set of individuals during their time but also helped shaped the future for modern technology and science. This revolution took place throughout many nations of Europe. This revolution changed the ideas and teachings
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Although Galileo was an astronomer, he entered the university to study medicine, but his interests gradually changed and soon studied philosophy. Galileo with hard work and studying, was able to invent the telescope. With the telescope, he was able to discover sun spots and new moons around Saturn. Raymnd Seeger wrote a book called, “Galileo Galilei, His Life and His Work”. Within the book he explains that the discoveries of sun spots and new moons did not Confirm the ideas of Copernicus. He writes:
Such discoveries, to be sure, did not confirm the Copernican hypothesis. They did; however give credence to the existence of a universe, i.e., not a duoverse with a perfect heaven and an imperfect earth, and to the probability that the earth is not the center of motion for all heavenly bodies. (Seeger, pg 247)
These discoveries have helped people today understand how the sun functions and also inspired many scientists today to fly to the …show more content…
These laws of motion helped explain how each object in the universe co-operates. These laws are universally accepted and still cannot be disproven. Along with discovering these universal laws, he also developed the foundation of a new math, Calculus. Newton built his theory of Calculus based off the works of Isaac Barrow and John Wallis. The initial complication of Newton’s theory was that the calculations of finding curves and slopes was fairly simple, there is no method to give one individual point when given an exact
Although Galileo was an astronomer, he entered the university to study medicine, but his interests gradually changed and soon studied philosophy. Galileo with hard work and studying, was able to invent the telescope. With the telescope, he was able to discover sun spots and new moons around Saturn. Raymnd Seeger wrote a book called, “Galileo Galilei, His Life and His Work”. Within the book he explains that the discoveries of sun spots and new moons did not Confirm the ideas of Copernicus. He writes:
Such discoveries, to be sure, did not confirm the Copernican hypothesis. They did; however give credence to the existence of a universe, i.e., not a duoverse with a perfect heaven and an imperfect earth, and to the probability that the earth is not the center of motion for all heavenly bodies. (Seeger, pg 247)
These discoveries have helped people today understand how the sun functions and also inspired many scientists today to fly to the …show more content…
These laws of motion helped explain how each object in the universe co-operates. These laws are universally accepted and still cannot be disproven. Along with discovering these universal laws, he also developed the foundation of a new math, Calculus. Newton built his theory of Calculus based off the works of Isaac Barrow and John Wallis. The initial complication of Newton’s theory was that the calculations of finding curves and slopes was fairly simple, there is no method to give one individual point when given an exact