The Northern lights‚ or Aurora Borealis‚ are one of the world’s most amazing phenomenons. The lights are the result of collisions between gaseous particles in Earth’s atmosphere with charged particles from the sun. Free electrons and protons are thrown from the sun’s atmosphere by the rotation of the sun. The charged particles are are largely deflected by the earth’s magnetic field‚ but at the north and south poles‚ the magnetic field is weaker‚ allowing some charged particles to collide with gas
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Following the dark‚ Middle Ages came a time period of renewed interests in things of the world such as education‚ art‚ literature‚ and science. This period was called the Renaissance. During the Renaissance‚ education was a common goal for people and the result of this made people more knowledgeable in subjects such as the liberal arts. It also took on a movement of thought and action concerned with human interest and values which was called humanism. The printing press would become one of the most
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studying the classical works of Aristotle and Ptolemy‚ Copernicus would have never come to the conclusion of heliocentrism that dominates what we know about the universe today. Another scientist to disagree with the geocentric system was Galileo Galilei. Galileo was the first European to study the heavens with the use of a telescope. His observations allowed him to conclude that the heavenly objects were not in fact shiny orbs of light‚ but rather made of material substances like Earth. This completely
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fascinating people of the 14th century as he was not only an artist but an inventor‚ a scientist‚ an engineer and a botanist among other things‚ he would often praise the human intellect to achieve things( as was the theme for this time period). Galileo Galilei is also fascinating as he is the first scientist to say the earth revolves around the sun‚ thus “defying” the word of god‚ which no one in the time of the Middle Ages would do as they wanted and believed that they had to work to get to heaven
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critisizm and persecution. Galilei Galileo‚ Francis Bacon‚ and Rene Descartes were among the first to break away from the conventional views of their times to find a place for science in a society and propose the way it should be practiced. All three authors agree on some points but differe markedly on others. Bacon insists on the importa nce of experimentation and relative uselessness of senses and experience‚ while Decartes thinks them imporatnt for understanding of nature. Galileo stresses the need for
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Orpiano‚ Jeanne Lauribelle N. BSMT 3-2 Rene Descartes Rene Descartes‚ also known as the “father of modern philosophy”. Descartes was born in the town of La Haye in the south of France‚ on March 31‚ 1596. Rene Descartes spent most of his life in the Dutch Republic. Joachim Descartes his father served in the Parliament of Brittany‚ France as a Councilor. When he is one year old‚ his mother Jeanne Brochard Descartes died. His father remarried‚ while he and his older brother and sister were raised
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The Medici; Heroes of the Renaissance In the year 2004‚ PBS broadcasted the series‚ “Medici; Godfathers of the Renaissance”. This four-part documentary‚ in attempt to gain viewer interest‚ compared the Medici to the mobsters found in Francis Ford’s “The Godfather”. The relation of the Medici to Italian mobsters in the PBS Medici series is in no way accurate‚ for they were not villains of the renaissance‚ but heroes. The Medici were very connected with the church‚ and used their extensive
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The writings of Lucretius has influenced people like Galileo Galilei‚ Sigmund Freud‚ Charles Darwin‚ Albert Einstein‚ and even Thomas Jefferson when he wrote the Declaration of Independence. Lucretius influenced Galileo’s thoughts and beliefs in the 1600’s. Galileo was in trouble for his theories about how the earth orbited. He was under extreme pressure from the Inquisition because he had agreed to not continue
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2.4 Galileo Galilei: Sixteenth-Century “New Scientist” 1. In your own words explain why Albert Einstein considered Galileo to be the “father of modern science” Albert Einstein considered Galileo to be the father of modern science because of how many of Galileo’s discoveries have become the basis of today’s science. 2. Why did Galileo choose to use a ramp to perform his acceleration experiment? Technology during Galileo’s time was still quite primitive. His experiment which required him to drop
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learned a lot from reading about their breakthroughs and trials. The book describes the lives of some of the very important figures in the history of science. Here is a small summary about what I learned from what they did through this book. GALILEO GALILEI – the ’The Father of Science’‚ in this book‚ we find him trying to battle against what everybody thought about at that time. He believed in Science while everybody else was too much into his or her religious beliefs. He was constantly trying to
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