How Did Copernicus Contribute To The Scientific Revolution
The scientific revolution has to do with the changes in beliefs and opinions. It is believed that Nicholas Copernicus was the first contributor to the scientific revolution. Many agree that this was one of the most important developments for humans in the future. The definition of a revolution is: “A forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system”. This means that by the creation of the scientific revolution a new thought system was started.
Nicolaus Copernicus was an outstanding man. Before him, everyone believed the earth was the center of the universe. Upon a deeper study he came to the conclusion that the earth revolved a full circle once daily on an axis around the sun. Nicolaus was born February 19th, 1473. His father had an untimely death when Nicolaus was only 10 years old. The death of his father caused his to move in with his uncle who was a priest. His uncle made sure that Nicolaus continued to receive an education. In 1496 he went to Italy to study law, while he was there he stayed with a professor, Domenico Maria de Novara. He supported Nicolaus’ interests with science.
By 1530 Nicolaus Copernicus had finished a book, ‘De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium’ a 405 page masterpiece about his facts on the universe changing the ideas of the human race for …show more content…
millions of years to come. ‘On The Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies’ in English. In this book he clearly stated that the Earth rotates on its axis and every year goes around the sun. This book got published early 1543 and unfortunately he died on May 24th of the same year.
One of the next big philosophers for the scientific revolution is none other than Tycho Brahe. Tycho Brahe was born on December 14th, 1546. At an early age Tycho’s uncle kidnapped him to raise him in Tostrup, Scania. Like Mr. Copernicus, Tycho Brahe went on to study law in 1559-62. After realizing law wasn’t what he wanted to pursue, he went on to astronomy. A 14 year old Tycho was so completely enveloped by the idea of the first total eclipse of the sun. He went outside to witness it and it changed him forever. According to Tycho he never forgot seeing the eclipse. In 1562, two years after the eclipse, his uncle paid for him to go to the University of Liepzig. While he was there he made his first observation of Saturn and Jupiter overlapping. He also came to the conclusion that the Copernican tables were off and started to take his time correcting them. On November 11th, 1572 he discovered a start brighter than Venus in the Cassiopeia constellation. This shook others down the core as they believed that stars were perfect and didn’t change. Upon his discovery of this new star he went on to write his scrutiny in a book titled ‘De Nova Stella’.
In 1573, Tycho Brahe married a woman named Kristine. They had 8 children and only 6 survived. There were many rumors circling their marriage but no one ever learned the truth. Mr. Brahe ended up opening an observatory named after Urania. With the help and support of other astronomers and scholars they were able to correct the somewhat false astronomy statements that existed. In an attempt to create a perfect observatory he paid craftsmen to establish immaculate instruments that could be used to help. These would be placed around the study. Tycho ended up dying in 1601 bestowing the privilege of carrying on his legacy to his assistant Kepler. To give you a little bit of an idea of whom he was, he lost part his nose in a math fight! It is believed that he died from a bladder infection. For 11 days he was unable to pee except in the smallest amounts and while at a banquet, he died. Interesting enough, there was toxic amounts of mercury on his mustache hairs.
An astronomer that I believe is one of the most known is Galileo Galilei. Born on February 15th, 1564 in Italy Galileo was destined to be an extraordinary intellectual. Galileo Galilei was the first born of 6 other children. His father, Vincenzo Galilei, was an exceptional musician. In 1581 the he attended the University of Pisa to study medicine. While learning there he became intrigued with two particular subjects, mathematical studies and physics. Due to financial troubles Galileo was forced to leave the university before acquiring his degree. Galileo applied for the chair of mathematics with no triumph. Between those two times he had started a disquisition called ‘La Bilancetta’. The translated version meaning ‘The Little Balance’. Around this time he also started his studies on movement and gravity.
His ideas and disquisition brought him attention from universities who asked him to speak for the attending students, thus earning him support from assorted mathematicians and the known Guidobaldo del Monte.
This ended up as a wonderful treat for Galileo as he rightfully took place at the chair of mathematics at the University of Pisa in 1598. His first biographer, Vicenzo Viviani, claimed Galileo dropped items of disparate weights from the Leaning Tower. This proved that the speed an object falls isn’t proportional to weight. With these facts he created produced yet another document, this one named ‘De Motu Antiquiora’. When translated in English, this means ‘In
Motion’.
In spring of 1609 Galileo heard that an item had been developed that could show things that were far away as if they were right in front of you. With his intelligence he was able to recreate the instrument in a short amount of time. Plenty of others had been doing the same thing but Galileo’s was special. He was able to construct a surprisingly potent telescope. His telescopes were able to magnify up to 20 times. Galileo began studying the galaxies with his own creations. Quickly discovering that the moon’s surface is not smooth as previously thought, it was jagged and bumpy. Mr. Galilei spent so much time watching the moon he was able to see four moons circling Jupiter. In December of 1609 he illustrated the phases of the moon as seen through his telescope. With these incredible discoveries Galileo Galilei put together a book labeled ‘Siderus Nuncius’. In this book he talked about the findings previously stated and also how there are more stars in the galaxy than what you can see just by staring up at the sky.
Galileo was very interesting as you can tell. He has an incredibly long story but it’s not done yet. Galileo later unearthed a confusing thing about how Saturn looked, seeing that it has a ring around it. Back in his hometown he came to the conclusion that Venus goes through phases the same as the moon does. Mr. Galilei agreed with Nicolaus Copernicus’ argument that the Earth is not the center of the universe and that it revolves around the sun.
For this astronomer we’re traveling all the way back to 100 AD. Claudius Ptolemaeus, more commonly known as Ptolemy, was born in Egypt. Absolutely nothing is known about his life unless you can develop some information from his writing. In 150 CE he finished one of his first major works called the ‘Almagest’. The name came from a mixture of Greek and Arabic meaning the greatest. In this work he reported various observations he had been gathering for years. Ptolemy called this book ‘The mathematical collection’ because he considered the subject could be elaborated in mathematical expressions.
What is considered his major contribution to the human race is the model of ‘heavenly bodies’ that precisely made intelligible of how they traveled based off of previous models. The only problem there was with his model, which wasn’t known at the time, was it represented the fact that they believed the earth was the center of the universe. The Ptolemaic model demonstrated the fact that each planet traveled on what was either a circle or a sphere. He called this an ‘epicycle’. There ‘epicycles’ traveled on a larger sphere that circled the earth called a ‘deferent’. No one is quite sure about the time he died but it is assumed that he passed in 170 CE. Even though we now are aware that we moved on an axis around the Earth. The Ptolemaic model was an extreme turning point for the scientific revolution.
Nicolaus Copernicus was an outstanding man. Before him, everyone believed the earth was the center of the universe. Upon a deeper study he came to the conclusion that the earth revolved a full circle once daily on an axis around the sun. Nicolaus was born February 19th, 1473. His father had an untimely death when Nicolaus was only 10 years old. The death of his father caused his to move in with his uncle who was a priest. His uncle made sure that Nicolaus continued to receive an education. In 1496 he went to Italy to study law, while he was there he stayed with a professor, Domenico Maria de Novara. He supported Nicolaus’ interests with science.
By 1530 Nicolaus Copernicus had finished a book, ‘De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium’ a 405 page masterpiece about his facts on the universe changing the ideas of the human race for …show more content…
millions of years to come. ‘On The Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies’ in English. In this book he clearly stated that the Earth rotates on its axis and every year goes around the sun. This book got published early 1543 and unfortunately he died on May 24th of the same year.
One of the next big philosophers for the scientific revolution is none other than Tycho Brahe. Tycho Brahe was born on December 14th, 1546. At an early age Tycho’s uncle kidnapped him to raise him in Tostrup, Scania. Like Mr. Copernicus, Tycho Brahe went on to study law in 1559-62. After realizing law wasn’t what he wanted to pursue, he went on to astronomy. A 14 year old Tycho was so completely enveloped by the idea of the first total eclipse of the sun. He went outside to witness it and it changed him forever. According to Tycho he never forgot seeing the eclipse. In 1562, two years after the eclipse, his uncle paid for him to go to the University of Liepzig. While he was there he made his first observation of Saturn and Jupiter overlapping. He also came to the conclusion that the Copernican tables were off and started to take his time correcting them. On November 11th, 1572 he discovered a start brighter than Venus in the Cassiopeia constellation. This shook others down the core as they believed that stars were perfect and didn’t change. Upon his discovery of this new star he went on to write his scrutiny in a book titled ‘De Nova Stella’.
In 1573, Tycho Brahe married a woman named Kristine. They had 8 children and only 6 survived. There were many rumors circling their marriage but no one ever learned the truth. Mr. Brahe ended up opening an observatory named after Urania. With the help and support of other astronomers and scholars they were able to correct the somewhat false astronomy statements that existed. In an attempt to create a perfect observatory he paid craftsmen to establish immaculate instruments that could be used to help. These would be placed around the study. Tycho ended up dying in 1601 bestowing the privilege of carrying on his legacy to his assistant Kepler. To give you a little bit of an idea of whom he was, he lost part his nose in a math fight! It is believed that he died from a bladder infection. For 11 days he was unable to pee except in the smallest amounts and while at a banquet, he died. Interesting enough, there was toxic amounts of mercury on his mustache hairs.
An astronomer that I believe is one of the most known is Galileo Galilei. Born on February 15th, 1564 in Italy Galileo was destined to be an extraordinary intellectual. Galileo Galilei was the first born of 6 other children. His father, Vincenzo Galilei, was an exceptional musician. In 1581 the he attended the University of Pisa to study medicine. While learning there he became intrigued with two particular subjects, mathematical studies and physics. Due to financial troubles Galileo was forced to leave the university before acquiring his degree. Galileo applied for the chair of mathematics with no triumph. Between those two times he had started a disquisition called ‘La Bilancetta’. The translated version meaning ‘The Little Balance’. Around this time he also started his studies on movement and gravity.
His ideas and disquisition brought him attention from universities who asked him to speak for the attending students, thus earning him support from assorted mathematicians and the known Guidobaldo del Monte.
This ended up as a wonderful treat for Galileo as he rightfully took place at the chair of mathematics at the University of Pisa in 1598. His first biographer, Vicenzo Viviani, claimed Galileo dropped items of disparate weights from the Leaning Tower. This proved that the speed an object falls isn’t proportional to weight. With these facts he created produced yet another document, this one named ‘De Motu Antiquiora’. When translated in English, this means ‘In
Motion’.
In spring of 1609 Galileo heard that an item had been developed that could show things that were far away as if they were right in front of you. With his intelligence he was able to recreate the instrument in a short amount of time. Plenty of others had been doing the same thing but Galileo’s was special. He was able to construct a surprisingly potent telescope. His telescopes were able to magnify up to 20 times. Galileo began studying the galaxies with his own creations. Quickly discovering that the moon’s surface is not smooth as previously thought, it was jagged and bumpy. Mr. Galilei spent so much time watching the moon he was able to see four moons circling Jupiter. In December of 1609 he illustrated the phases of the moon as seen through his telescope. With these incredible discoveries Galileo Galilei put together a book labeled ‘Siderus Nuncius’. In this book he talked about the findings previously stated and also how there are more stars in the galaxy than what you can see just by staring up at the sky.
Galileo was very interesting as you can tell. He has an incredibly long story but it’s not done yet. Galileo later unearthed a confusing thing about how Saturn looked, seeing that it has a ring around it. Back in his hometown he came to the conclusion that Venus goes through phases the same as the moon does. Mr. Galilei agreed with Nicolaus Copernicus’ argument that the Earth is not the center of the universe and that it revolves around the sun.
For this astronomer we’re traveling all the way back to 100 AD. Claudius Ptolemaeus, more commonly known as Ptolemy, was born in Egypt. Absolutely nothing is known about his life unless you can develop some information from his writing. In 150 CE he finished one of his first major works called the ‘Almagest’. The name came from a mixture of Greek and Arabic meaning the greatest. In this work he reported various observations he had been gathering for years. Ptolemy called this book ‘The mathematical collection’ because he considered the subject could be elaborated in mathematical expressions.
What is considered his major contribution to the human race is the model of ‘heavenly bodies’ that precisely made intelligible of how they traveled based off of previous models. The only problem there was with his model, which wasn’t known at the time, was it represented the fact that they believed the earth was the center of the universe. The Ptolemaic model demonstrated the fact that each planet traveled on what was either a circle or a sphere. He called this an ‘epicycle’. There ‘epicycles’ traveled on a larger sphere that circled the earth called a ‘deferent’. No one is quite sure about the time he died but it is assumed that he passed in 170 CE. Even though we now are aware that we moved on an axis around the Earth. The Ptolemaic model was an extreme turning point for the scientific revolution.