February 17‚ 2013 Analysis of Galileo’s Letter The Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany was written by Galileo Galilei in 1615. Galileo was an Italian scientist that began making new discoveries in the heavens in 1609. He discovered many things that did not coincide with the teaching of the church. The Letter of the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany was written by Galileo in response to hearing that the Grand Duchess of Christina criticized the heliocentric theory that was created
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Galileo Galilei Galileo was born in Pisa (then part of the Duchy of Florence)‚ Italy‚ the first of six children of Vincenzo Galilei‚ a famous lutenist‚ composer‚ and music theorist; and Giulia Ammannati. Galileo became an accomplished lutenist himself and would have learned early from his father a healthy scepticism for established authority‚[15] the value of well-measured or quantified experimentation‚ an appreciation for a periodic or musical measure of time or rhythm‚ as well as the illuminative
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Galileo: Uniformity of Nature and Experimental Physics The Renaissance became one of the factors for the Scientific Revolution‚ bringing on the renewal of ancient times which led to the discovery of "ancient scientific texts (1)." This time period of the Renaissance also known as "the century of genius (1)" brought on a new view of nature bringing about ideas of great minds such as that of Galileo. He could be described as a Renaissance man‚ gifted in many areas as a talented musician‚ an artist
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By the late 1500s‚ Christian divisions had been flying up all over Europe. This was in light of the reports of liberalities (offering of opportunity from limbo)‚ administrative indecency‚ manhandle of cash‚ alongside numerous other awful activities that were uncontrolled among the Church. It was these issues that Luther and others revolted and made their own religions. With the ascending of these Reformation developments‚ the Church expected to make a few changes itself. These changes appeared as
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anything but an empire in this respect. Samuel Pufendorf (1667) gives sharp criticism to the Empire’s lack of strong political structure and how it has contributed to military weakness. Emperor Joseph II‚ in a memorandum to his brother Leopold‚ Duke of Tuscany‚ describes how the organization of the Holy Roman Empire could be improved upon to protect the people within its borders. Ernst Moritz Arndt described his frustrations with
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during his Paduan period that Galileo worked out much of his mechanics and began his work with the telescope (Machamer). In 1610 he published The Starry Messenger‚ and soon after accepted a position as Mathematician and Philosopher to the Grand Duke of Tuscany (Machamer). In 1613 – 1614 Galileo entered into discussions of Copernicanism
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I have chosen to write about one of the most significant figures in art‚ Leonardo Da Vinci. Leonardo Da Vinci was born on 15 april in 1452 in Vinci‚ Tuscany‚ Italy. Leonardo’s full name was Leonardo di Ser Piero da Vinci‚ which means "Leonardo‚ Piero’s son‚ from Vinci"‚ the name he wore because he was born a bastard. Leonardo showed as a young man‚ talent for many aesthetic areas‚ for example. Sing‚ read poetry and play the lute. But he showed an even greater talent for painting and was hence in
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Before the Congress of Vienna the French occupation had far reaching affects on Italy. The power of the Church and the Pope was reduced‚ changes were made in landownership and land was redistributed. A new middle class began to appear. Agriculture was improved and the peasants were freed from their old feudal ties and obligations. Then when Napoleon was defeated and the restoration of the old regime and monarchs was started‚ Italy again became a country divided into eleven independent states‚ excluding
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After that he was appointed philosopher and mathematician to the Grand Duke of Tuscany. During the whole of this period‚ and to the close of his life‚ his investigation of Nature‚ in all his fields‚ was never stopped. Following up his experiments at Pisa with others upon inclined planes‚ Galileo established the laws of falling
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Vasari and his role during the Florentine High Renaissance: Girogio Vasari was born in Arezzo‚ Tuscany during the Renaissance in 1511. As a young man he showed a remarkable interest and talent for painting and soon became a student of the famous artist Guglielmo da Marsiglia. After his apprenticeship‚ he moved on to study more in Florence‚ which was home to many other prominent Renaissance artists before he moved on to study in Rome. It was in Rome that he was exposed to the works of his idols
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