Galileo Galilei Galileo Galilei‚ born Febuary 15th 1564 and died January 8th 1642‚ was a major contrubitor to science during the Scientific Revolution. As a physicist‚ mathematician‚ astronomer‚ and philosopher‚ his contributions include improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations and support for heliocentrism. He also conducted experiments with pendulums‚ establishing the relationships between length and period. He also applied these principles to gravity‚ determining
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universities‚ in home workshops‚ or the courts of royal families; it wasn’t until the late seventeenth century that formal societies and academies devoted to science were founded. Science became the greatest cultural authority in the western world. Nicolaus Copernicus Rejects an Earth-Centered Universe Biographical information Polish priest and scientist educated at the University of Krakow wrote On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Orbs/Spheres in 1543 Commissioned to find astronomical justification so
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Gabriel Glasser Professor Damnjanovic December 3‚ 2012 The Unveiling of the Heavens In summer of 1609‚ Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) pointed his revolutionary astronomical telescope to the heavens under the starry Venetian sky; his greatly important observations unveiled the mysteries of universe and would end up changing the course of scientific thought forever. Galileo lived in an age where there was much status quo‚ when scientists and philosophers would accept scientific and religious doctrine
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mind of Galileo. Like all discoverers‚ you either make a theory or support a theory. Many people before Galileo’s time thought that the earth was the center of the universe and all of the planets orbited it. He proved the Heliocentric Theory of Copernicus in one of his many books. This stated that the sun was the center of the universe and that earth and all of the other planets revolved around it.
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of the idea of a heliocentric universe‚ meaning that everything revolved around the sun‚ challenged the Church‚ which said that the earth came before the sun. This challenge to church authority loosened the Church’s grip on people. Furthermore‚ Copernicus‚ “relying mostly on mathematics‚ developed a very different understanding of the universe” (Doc C). The Renaissance embodied reason and rationality.
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Reformation can be seen as the deviation from the norm‚ the Catholic Church. As a result‚ it was possible for scientific thought to grow because the oppressive Catholic Church was weakened. In other words‚ Kepler did not have as many limitations as Copernicus did. Going against the Catholic Church during Copernicus’s time was so dangerous that he had to publish his heliocentric theory posthumously. During Kepler’s time‚ the Catholic Church was weaker and Kepler could publicly defend heliocentrism from
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Galileo Galilei is well known by many‚ but it is hard to pin point the exact reason behind this apparent fame‚ he became famous in terms of early empirical science late on in his life‚ when he wrote his text on the dynamics of rigid bodies Dialogues concerning the Two New Sciences ’ which is a forerunner of Isaac Newton ’s Laws of Motion. However this branch of science was not his passion or what he spent most of his life arguing and theorising about. Galileo was interested in the Copernican theory
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that the church certainly followed this theory and that it was indeed the accepted ‘science’ of the day. At the same time it is important to note that Galileo was not the discoverer of the heliocentric theory; it was in fact named after Nicholas Copernicus who published it in his book some two decades before. Galileo was popular with the catholic clergy it was reported that ‘Cardinal Robert Bellarmine... had the opportunity to look through Galileo’s telescope during a banquet held
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Galileo (1564-16642) Inquisiton Galileo picked up where Copericus left off. Re-invented the telescope‚ which gave him a further look into the galaxy. He bought more thought to the scientific process and also he revealed holes on the theologian theory. Galileo set out to show that just because it is written then it is not necessary true. People during this era because that what was written on paper was set in stone (the Truth no questioning). That showed
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thought as the unalloyed truth‚ the Islamic astronomers found much that was objectionable and themselves attempted to forge a new astronomy‚” (Saliba‚ 1). Mathematical advancements were made by Islamic scientist al-Tulsi‚ which were later used by Copernicus himself when creating the heliocentric model of the solar
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