Johannes Kepler was a key figure during the Scientific Revolution and his work in astronomy provided the framework for modern astronomy and physics. Kepler is best-known for his laws of planetary motion. His laws of planetary motion improved upon Copernicus’s heliocentric theory by explaining how the speeds of the planets varied and by using elliptical orbits rather than circular orbits. Kepler was born in the Free Imperial City of Weil der Stadt on December 27th‚ 1571. Kepler was schooled at the
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Apollo 13 The movie Apollo 13 is a true story about a failure of a space mission to the moon. Before they end up getting to the moon‚ something goes wrong with the rocket ship. The quote “We just put Sir Isaac Newton in the driver’s seat” from the movie Apollo 13 is figure of speech. A figure of speech is an idiom‚ metaphor‚ or simile. In this case‚ the quote is an idiom. An idiom is a figure of speech that is meant not to be taken literally. It’s raining cats and dogs is an example of an idiom
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By: Victor Hui Introduction Leonhard Euler was a ground-breaking Swiss mathematician and physicist from the 1700’s. He made many revolutionary discoveries. However‚ the one that caught my eye was his solution to the Basel Problem in the year 1734. The Basel problem was initially posed by an Italian mathematician by the name of Pietro Mengoli in the early 1640’s. This problem baffled the even the greatest minds at the time. Branching from mathematical analysis‚ the Basel problem involved knowledge
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Is gravity always 9.8m/s2?? INTRODUCTION: A simple pendulum consists of a mass m swinging back and forth along a circular arc at the end of a string of negligible mass. A pendulum is a weight suspended from a pivot so that it can swing freely. Gravity is the pull that two bodies of mass exert on one another. There are several simple experiments that will allow you to calculate the acceleration due to gravity of a falling object. A simple pendulum can determine this acceleration. The only variables
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German meteorologist‚ geophysicist and polar researcher‚ Alfred Wegener‚ made an incredible discovery and his ideas were shot down by all important people in his job industry. In the heat of attempting to change how scientists & the public thought about life‚ he began to search for many pieces of evidence to prove something‚ not only to the world‚ but to himself. I will be naming even more in the following text to help people better comprehend why Wegner was not insane and how reliable his work is
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The notion of fighting for a belief comes to mind as history unravels the many conflicts which were encountered in the past‚ which are still prevalent today. Those brave men accused of being rebels such as the tank man in Tiananmen Square and Galileo Galilei trying to overthrow the government and the Vatican in place respectively‚ stood no fighting chance in what was largely a one-sided war‚ though‚ they did what they wanted to achieve. A clash of ideas‚ interests and expectations is seen through
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Introduction: Brecht’s only play based on a historical figure‚ the seventeenth-century Italian astronomer and physicist‚ Galileo Galilei (1564) who challenged prevailing notions of astronomy by suggesting that the earth was not the center of the universe but rather revolved around the sun‚ was written in three versions over a period of nineteen years. He wrote the first version (the early title was The Earth Moves) in Denmark in 1938-39 while fleeing Hitler’s Germany. This text was performed in
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Galileo Galilei was born in 1564 in Pisa‚ Italy. At a young age his family moved to Florence where he grew up. At about the age of 33‚ Galileo begins to believe in the Copernican or heliocentric model of the universe as opposed to the Ptolemaic or geocentric model. Galileo then used magnifying glasses to create telescopes to see the stars better. He realizes that the Copernican model offers better explanations for what he discovered in the sky and for what happens here on earth than the Ptolemaic
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differing opinions. This is shown throughout Bertolt Brecht’s play "Life of Galileo"‚ which is set in 17th century Italy and follows the events of Galileo Galilei’s adult years. During this time he created a telescope to view the stars‚ and his findings went against that of the church. What was intended as a gift of knowledge for the world was seen as an attack on the church‚ and this led to a decade of conflict. Galileo had no intention of starting a conflict‚ but he could not avoid it‚ it was neccessary
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09/25/2012 In a critical time in history in Western civilization‚ man accosted for the first time the evidence that his conceptions of truth were entirely wrong. Galileo comes alive as a larger than life genius from the pages‚ full of witticisms and blustering energy. Even his betrayal of his own science tends to be easily forgiven by the audience because he is such a genial revolutionary. Apart from the drama of science standing up to religion depicted as some sort of bully‚ I liked
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