Antastagio Vespucci sent him to the Monastery of San Marco to study with his uncle Giorgio. In his new school‚ Amerigo along with the other European boys learned Latin‚ math‚ grammar‚ history‚ Italian and Greek Literature‚ geography and astronomy. Amerigo learned to love astronomy‚ because he was fascinated about all of the shapes the stars made‚ that his uncle called constellations. Amerigo thought about traveling about the Earth‚ but he thought it to be impossible‚ because he was tought in school that the
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the land textures and topography. He took special interest in Greenland‚ and always walked‚ skated‚ and hiked. This prepared him of what was to come in his future. He studied in Germany and Austria‚ receiving his PhD in astronomy. But no sooner than he got his PhD he dropped astronomy (in desire for a more interesting department) to study meteorology‚ the study of weather. Wegener started of flying kites and balloons. He made experiments with his brother Kurt flying these certain things. Then in
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Neutrino What is neutrino ? A neutrino is an electrically neutral‚ weakly interacting elementary subatomic particle with a half-integer spin‚ chirality and a disputed but small non-zero mass. It is able to pass through ordinary matter almost unaffected. The neutrino (meaning "small neutral one") is denoted by the Greek letter ν (nu). Neutrinos are similar to the more familiar electron‚ with one crucial difference: neutrinos do not carry electric charge‚ which means that they are not affected by
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INTRODUCTION: The electromagnetic spectrum is the range of all possible frequencies of electromagnetic radiation. Radiation can be said to be energy that travels and spread as it goes. The "electromagnetic spectrum" of an object has a different meaning‚ and is instead the characteristic distribution of electromagnetic radiation emitted or absorbed by that particular object. We tend to witness different radiations of the electromagnetic spectrum without knowing‚ example is the visible light that
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Plato’s Universe (Chapters 1 & 2) By: Gregory Vlastos SUMMARY Vlastos begins by talking about the word cosmos and its origins. The Greek word kosmeo meaning to set in order became kosmos which had a moral connotation until the Presocratics such as Thales‚ Anaximander and Anaximenes and other physiologoi gave the word a physical application that was composed of the Earth‚ sun‚ moon‚ stars and everything in between. Heraclitus was the first person on record to use the word cosmos with its newest
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system was one of the only ways for women to train in sciences such as astronomy. Maria was born in 1670 at Panitzch and was the daughter of a Lutheran minister. She was well off and was educated privately by her father and after his death‚ her uncle. Maria Winkelmann was very proficient in the arts and sciences from an early age‚ and she was especially interested in astronomy. She received even more special training in astronomy from Christoph Arnold who lived in the neighboring town. Maria
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main focus of European civilization. It became a qualitative view and saw nature as a machine instead of an organism. The revolution began in astronomy‚ in which Nicholas Copernicus thought of a heliocentric universe‚ which turned the world upside-down and published in 1543. Different from platonic instrumentalism‚ Copernicus said that satisfactory astronomy must describe the real‚ physical world. Most of the world’s professional astronomers were using his system by the time the church had largely
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Today keeping track of time is crucial for everyday life and it has been since the very first calendars were created. The Mayan people based their calendar on astronomy. The Romans created their calendar keeping religious holidays in mind. Other cultures used their calendars to keep track of celestial events. Different groups of people created calendars to indicate the passing of time and events within their cultures. The Mayans are an ancient culture that used to reside in the South Americas. Recently
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How did Hellenistic Culture shape the rest of the Mediterranean world? The Hellenistic culture had a huge influence and major effect on the Mediterranean world because it was very advanced and highly educated. Many Greek and Hellenistic ideas were spread throughout the countries such as‚ Egypt‚ India and Southwest Asia. First-hand and advanced ways of math‚ science and philosophy were developing their way into these other countries. It affected the way that they thought and their way of life
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al-Khwārizmī‚ in full Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī (born c. 780‚ Baghdad‚ Iraq—died c. 850)‚ )‚ Muslim mathematician and astronomer whose major works introduced Hindu-Arabic numerals and the concepts of algebra into European mathematics. Latinized versions of his name and of his most famous book title live on in the terms algorithm and algebra. Images Al-Khwārizmī lived in Baghdad‚ where he worked at the “House of Wisdom” (Dār al-Ḥikma) under the caliphate of al-Maʾmūn. (The House
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