Joe Hamilton Galileo Galilei: The Mathematician 10/29/14 Math 103 Professor Kessler Joe Hamilton 10/29/14 Math 103 Professor Kessler Galileo Galilei: The Mathematician 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
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prosecution of Galileo Galilei. Galileo had become the father of modern science‚ due to his scientific breakthroughs and revolutionizing modern technology. However‚ Galileo’s supporting argument for the Copernican heliocentric theory of the universe had caught the Church’s attention‚ and they would go on to accuse Galileo of heresy‚ forcing him to spend the rest of his life under house arrest. The battle between Galileo and the Holy Office was a long and treacherous one‚ with Galileo being condemned
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Galileo Galilei: Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany‚ 1615 Analysis In paragraph D‚ Galileo explains how he has discovered the truth that the Sun is motionless in the center of the universe and that Earth revolves around it. He then states that he supports his theory and disagrees with the beliefs of Ptolemy and Aristotle‚ but can prove with many counter arguments why his beliefs about his discovery are correct. He finishes the paragraph by noting that people like Ptolemy and Aristotle
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science‚ it is a truth universally acknowledged. Galileo attempted to make the two compatible by suggesting that the truth can only be sought out if the notion under consideration can be accurately tested and if the opposing view can be founded as false. Galileo’s goes into depth about the truth of scripture and the sciences‚ intertwined with the reason of man‚ in his letter to Christina of Lorraine‚ Grand Duchess of Tuscany. Early on in the letter Galileo‚ infers from St Augustine that the Holy Ghost
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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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Nicolaus Copernicus was born in the city of Turin‚ on the Prince-Bishopric of Warmia northern Poland on Feburary 19‚1473. His name at birth was Mikolaj Kopernik but he started calling himself the Latin form of his name‚ Nicolaus Copernicus‚ when he went to college. Copernicus was born into a wealthy family. His father‚ Mikolaj Copernicus was a prosperous copper trader. His mother also came from a wealthy upper-class family’s for merchants. Copernicus was the youngest of four children. In 1491‚ when
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Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes blazoned the advent of a scientific civilization. Both men ridiculed earlier methods of seeking knowledge‚ that were once used in the academic traditions of the universities founded in the Middle Ages. Both men published between 1620 and 1640 and held to the belief that Medieval or Aristotelian methods were retrograding and worthless. Through their works they stressed that truth was something we find at the end‚ after a long process of investigation‚ experiment‚ or
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example of Copernicus he changed his mind from the geocentric theory‚ what Newton hypothesized‚ which was the that the earth was the center of the universe and the planets‚ sun‚ moon‚ and even starts had there own ring in the universe and they orbited around the earth. Copernicus doubted and questioned this theory so he did his own calculation. Then he came up with the heliocentric theory‚ which was that the planets revolved around the sun and the moon orbited around the earth. Later on Galileo built
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Life of Galileo – Notes * Two stories. * 1609 – Galileo – a famous scientist – astronomer. * He is credited with inventing the telescope – although he pinched the idea off somebody else. * He was a bit immoral – Always broke – Short on money. * Then he discovered that the earth moves around the sun. * This was a very serious situation for him‚ because at that time‚ the Catholic Church was very powerful – The Church has always taught that the sun moved around the earth.
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Francis Bacon was a very controversial philosopher. In Book 1 of the Novum Organum‚ Bacon begins with the introduction of the "four idols". The four idols were four natural tendencies that people believe and seem to live by. The idols consisted of idols of the tribe‚ idols of the cave‚ idols of the marketplace‚ and idols of the theatre. These four idols‚ essentially began the start of modern psychology for the benefit and teaching of man. The first idol‚ the idol of the tribe‚ was a symbol
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