At age 11 he got a better telescope because he had walked dogs, did chores and paid for it and his parents paid for the other half. His neighbor used to thought that there was a burglar on Neils house but when the police arrived it was just Neil with his telescope on his roof looking at the stars. Later on Neil became the Captain of the wrestling team.…
10. Copernicus: A renaissance astronomer and the first person to formulate a comprehensive heliocentric cosmology, which placed the Earth in the center of the universe.…
This episodes of cosmos was a very interesting one. Neil Degrasse starts off with what was suppose to be the means of diversity between humans and animals and he speaks on the topics of natural selection, genetic drift and more to explain why there are so many different breed of creatures and why some are preferred compared to others in certain types of environments. He introduced us to a tree that contained all of the creatures that have been discovered by man, and he tells us the similar physical features that are shared amongst ourselves and those creatures. The part that fascinated me the most is the one that spoke on the topic of the development of eyesight, he used the example of sea creatures to display the complexity of eyesight development.…
Right from the start of the book Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy hits you with a foreshadowing of how small you are compared to community with the example of the demolition of Arthur Dent’s house. It shows how powerless Arthur Dent is to stopping the destruction of his house and how high and mighty humans feel by controlling what gets destroyed and what does not. Earth is treated just like Arthur Dent’s house, useless and in the way for something better. The Vogans address Earth as nothing more than construction and insinuate that if they couldn’t travel light years to read the fine print of the demolishment of Earth than they are better off dead. In the Hitchhiker’s guide to save room, humans were written in as “harmless” and why shouldn’t they be? Humans were for their whole existence ignorant to the fact that there was more than just…
Life is full of searches; searches that heal the soul, and searches that tear it apart. In the book, All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr, Werner, a young, German boy of the age 13, lives in a Children’s House with his sister and other children who’s parents have deceased due to working in the mines. Werner is very smart for his age. His passion is radios. He goes house to house, working on radios of all kinds for people of all classes. Because of his education and knowledge, he has been accepted into an academy for Hitler Youth called the National Political Institute of Education #6. Marie-Laure LeBlanc is 12 when her and her father, a locksmith at the Paris Museum of Natural History, sojourn to Saint-Malo to get away from the bombings taking place in Paris. Marie-Laure went blind when she was six years old. At the time she lost her vision, her father had created a miniature of their neighborhood to guide her as she ventures around town. Within the pages of this book, I feel as though a locksmith searches for the key to protection and future for his blind daughter, Marie-Laure searches for meaning and understanding of the world around her, and Werner searches for a way to please his sister and himself as he Heils Hitler.…
Ever wonder what it would be like to invent something that would be used for hundreds of years to come? That’s what Galileo Galilei did. Galileo Galilei belongs in the house 8-1 Genius Hall of Fame. Born in 1564 in Florence, Italy, Galileo was the oldest of six children. In 1583, he attended the University of Pisa to study medicine but became fascinated with many other subjects, particularly mathematics and physics. He performed studies and tests on falling objects and then wrote a manuscript about the results that he got. Galileo Galilei achieved lots of greatness throughout his time, including inventing the telescope, and believing in himself and his intelligence when no one else did.…
Galileo Galilei- (1564-1642) An Italian mathematician-physicist. In 1609 he made a telescope with which he discovered mountains on the moon, sunspots, the satellites of Jupiter, and the rings of Saturn.…
Summer Skies Disclaimer: No, silly, I never have nor will I ever own The Outsiders. S.E. Hinton owns The Outsiders. *sighs* :( I simply borrow them for my own creative enjoyment purposes.…
Stephen William Hawking is an English theoretical physicist and cosmologist, whose scientific books and public appearances have made him an academic celebrity.…
Galileo Galilei was born on the 15th of February in 1564 in Pisa, Italy. He would become a household name in modern history due to his many achievements to science and mathematics. Galileo studied under Jacopo Borghini for two years. Galileo was then educated at the Camaldolese Monastery at Vallombrosa for most of his younger years. He would eventually enroll in the University of Pisa for a degree in medicine. Then, after accidently attending a geometry lecture, Galileo switched to the study of mathematics.…
Johannes Kepler was born on December 27, 1571 in Weil der Stadt, Germany. Kepler was plagued by both poverty and sickness for much of his childhood. His mother was an Innkeeper and his father was a military man, who left Johannes when he was only five years old, never to return. With no financial resources, Kepler had little chance of making out of his small home town. Fortunately, it did not take long for people to catch on to Kepler’s true genius once he started attending school. It was quickly realized that Johannes had a special brain that was capable of understanding complex ideas and concepts both mathematically and…
Not only did The Apollo Program prove NASA’s capabilities, but other space projects have also had significant accomplishments. Throughout the 1990’s and 2000’s, various spacecrafts were sent into space to explore the Earth, Sun, Mercury, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Jupiter. NASA’s Discovery program, one of their low cost missions that focuses on the solar system, sent the Hubble Space Telescope in April 1990 to orbit Earth and take photographs of its atmosphere. The photos taken by Hubble “revolutionized ideas about the universe, contributing to the discovery of dark energy, a force that caused the universe to expand at an ever-increasing rate, and the discovery and characterization of planets outside the solar system” (Flynn). For centuries, humans have had limited knowledge about space and the planets that occupy it, however, The Hubble Space Telescope expanded the world’s knowledge on astronomy.…
Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Württemberg, Germany in 1879. His notable contributions included helping to develop the special and general theories of relativity. In 1921, he won the Nobel Prize for physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect. Einstein is generally considered the most influential physicist of the 20th century. He died on April 18, 1955, in Princeton, New Jersey.…
My father was a physicist and an astronomer, as well as being an inspiration of mine. He was the reason I knew what an exoplanet was in the first place. He encouraged me to study science,…
He had discovered Uranus on March 13th, 1781. This exciting discovery led to many more successes as he was knighted by the King and became the court’s official astronomer.…