Scientific Revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth century is known for its cosmological discoveries and its introduction to a new way of investigating nature. This revolution challenged the medieval perspective and influenced great minds such as Galileo‚ Francis Bacon‚ and Foucault. Thinkers of the Scientific Revolution rejected utter reliance on authorities‚ such as the Church‚ and strived for knowledge based on reasoning and direct observation. This sort of idea was so groundbreaking since it went
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GUMATAY‚ Ma. Rina Marcela T. ED2-01 PHILOSOPHERS ANCIENT PERIOD Aristotle Famous for his writings on physics‚ metaphysics‚ poetry‚ theater‚ music‚ logic‚ rhetoric‚ linguistics‚ politics‚ government‚ ethics‚ biology‚ and zoology‚ he was an extremely learned and educated individual. He is also among the first person to set a comprehensive system of Western philosophy which include views about morality and aesthetics‚ logic and science‚ politics and metaphysics. This system became the supporting
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temperature range that is typically marked on a laboratory thermometer is −10oC to 110oC. Thermometric liquids are those that are used in thermometers. Some examples of such liquids are mercury and alcohol. The thermometric fluid used by Galileo Galilei in his thermometer was air. Alcohol‚ which is used as a thermometric liquid‚ has the following characteristic properties : 1. Alcohol has a very low freezing point of about −112oC and hence is suitable in thermometers to record very low temperatures
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Gabriel Glasser Professor Damnjanovic December 3‚ 2012 The Unveiling of the Heavens In summer of 1609‚ Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) pointed his revolutionary astronomical telescope to the heavens under the starry Venetian sky; his greatly important observations unveiled the mysteries of universe and would end up changing the course of scientific thought forever. Galileo lived in an age where there was much status quo‚ when scientists and philosophers would accept scientific and religious doctrine
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Archimedes of Syracuse (287 BC – 212 BC) was a Greek mathematician‚ physicist‚ engineer‚ inventor‚ and astronomer. Archimedes is generally considered to be the greatest mathematician of antiquity and one of the greatest of all time. He used the method of exhaustion to calculate the area under the arc of a parabola with the summation of an infinite series‚ and gave a remarkably accurate approximation of pi. He also defined the spiral bearing his name‚ formulae for the volumes of solids of revolution
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1. Archimedes (Greece) - Principle of buoyancy; principle of lever 2. Galileo Galilei (Italy) - Law of inertia 3. Christian Huygens ( Holland) - Wave theory of light 4. Issac Newton (UK) - Universal law of gravitation; law of motion; Reflecting telescope 5. Michael Faraday (UK) - Law of electromagnetic induction 6. James Clerk Maxwell (UK) - Electro magnetic theory;Light-an electromagnetic wave 7. Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (Germany) - Generation of electromagnetic waves 8. J.C.Bose (India) - Ultra
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Claims require evidence‚ or else they are disregarded‚ but to what extent? Evidence is a fact or a piece of information that portrays the validity of a belief or proposition. For example‚ in science‚ you cannot claim a theory if it is not backed up with supportive evidence. However in matters like the reason of existence or religious beliefs‚ to what extent should evidence be provided? In Hitchens quote‚ he claims that if one makes a statement without providing evidences to back it up‚ the claim
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planet to all the others. All that remained was to see these three laws as part of one - one that held all the planets to orbit around the sun. In 1609‚ Galileo was the first person to use the telescope to observe the heavens. His discoveries included the mountains of the Moon‚ the moons of Jupiter‚ and the rings of Saturn. Perhaps most importantly‚ Galileo discovered that Venus displays crescent phases similar to that of the Moon. Isaac Newton with the theory of gravity and the laws of motion
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Along the path of self-discovery‚ challenges constantly present themselves as opportunities to grow intellectually and as a chance to succeed. Often times‚ the use of personal judgment and self-understanding is necessary in order to overcome these challenges. In Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‚ Huck experiences difficulties which compel him to use his moral judgment. Huck‚ a young boy in search of freedom‚ is accompanied by a runaway slave named Jim as he embarks on a treacherous
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explains on the survival of the fittest. Thought he went through a lot of trouble‚ he still managed to complete the evolutionary theory. There are many more people like William Shakespeare‚ Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz‚ Archimedes‚ Nikola Telsa‚ Galileo Galilei‚ Stephen Hawking‚ Thomas Edison and more. There are many more to come and many more to go. All of the people mentioned above are merely not called Geniuses because they invented something or did something. They are called so because they thought
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