1. This gentleman (shown in Pic 1) was famous as an astronomer‚ astrologer‚ and alchemist during his lifetime. In his 1573 book De nova stella‚ his precise measurements indicated that the ‘new stars’‚ (now known as supernovae) lacked the parallax expected in sub-lunar phenomena. After his death‚ his body has been exhumed twice (in 1901 and in 2010)‚ in order to examine the circumstances of his death. This was also done to verify what material his artificial nose was made of. The result was that his
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My experience with this optional observation lab was a great experience overall‚ just as I had expected it to be. I was much more interested in participating in the observations versus sitting in a classroom every week and attending the labs like in 1010. The first event that I attended was the courtyard telescope setup on January 31st‚ in which we were observing a couple of different provinces and sunspots located about 10 o’clock region located directly on the sun. (See lab book for illustration
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as they please without much opposition. John Locke and Galileo Galilei both stated that God has endowed humans with reason to make rational choices. Both argue that each human should question ideas as they desire. Humans should not obey an authority figure without reason. Their ideas provided society with new ways of viewing life. “The second Treatise of Government” written by John Locke and “Science and Scripture” written by Galileo Galilei explain the importance of human rationality. According
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In The Apology for Raymond Sebond‚ Montaigne references scientists and mathematicians in order to support his argument against certainty because human knowledge continually changes. For example‚ when Montaigne writes about shifts in human understanding of astronomy‚ he argues that if Greek philosophers could contradict the universally held belief that the sky and stars revolve around earth and then be confirmed by Copernicus one thousand years later‚ one would expect that another theory will replace
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Robert Hooke’s adult life comprised 3 distinct periods. As a scientific inquirer lacking money‚ achieving great wealth and standing through his reputation for hard work and scrupulous honesty following the great fire of 1666‚ but eventually becoming ill and party to jealous intellectual disputes. These issues may have contributed to his relative historical obscurity. Robert Hooke was at one time simultaneously the curator of experiments of the Royal Society and a member
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From pages of 120-133 in Magic in the Middle Ages‚ author Richard Kieckhefer discusses the practice of astrology in medieval Europe. He explains how astrology is a mix of Arabic science and Aristotelian cosmology‚ and is occult in its nature because it focuses on “those which cannot be ascribed to the physical makeup” (Kieckhefer‚ 131) of themselves. I find that the most interesting point in this reading is when Kieckhefer explains how the zodiac is rooted in astronomy‚ yet astrologers used the zodiac
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Isaac Newton was a big name around the period of time of the Enlightenment. He had many inventions that contributed to the Enlightenment such as the Naturalis Principia Mathematica Philosophiae and his ideas about gravity and the invention of the telescope. Isaac Newton was born on January 4‚ 1643 and his first contribution to the enlightenment was making the telescope. In 1668 he created the telescope for optics and this invention proved the idea of color and light. He proved that light was
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When Johannes Kepler was born in the late sixteenth century‚ scientists believed that planets in the solar system traveled in circular orbits around the Earth. The occasional problem was solved by the addition of miniature circles test — epicycles — to planetary paths. But Kepler not only adamantly defended the idea that planets orbit the sun‚ he also revealed that their paths were not perfect circles. His descriptions of planetary motions became known as Kepler’s laws. Born in December of 1571‚
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Although many scientist and mathematicians are perceived by people as nerdy men and women engulfing all their time studying boring numbers and theories‚ this was not the case for Tycho Brahe. Brahe entered the world into a noble family on December 14th 1546; however‚ he was captured by his uncle who persistently raised the boy to study Law. Yet‚ his passion was not in the pursuit of law‚ but in Astronomy and Alchemy. After attending the University of Copenhagen and various German Universities‚ he
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Copernicus Q1 Response: Why did Copernicus dedicate his great work to Pope Paul III? The Pope was God’s highest representative on Earth and held great moral authority. Early intellectuals were very religious and believed that God made possible the discoveries that were being made about the Earth. Copernicus knew what he was proposing would be controversial in the intellectual community. By seeking the Pope’s approval for his work‚ he recognized that‚ even if the community disagreed or even found
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