Galileo Galilei is a man known for greatly improving the telescope‚ discovering Jupiter’s four largest moons‚ and being the man who experimented with falling objects in the Leaning Tower of Pisa. He was an Italian astronomer‚ mathematician‚ and a physicist. He gave important contributions to science‚ especially in the field of astronomy. With his telescope‚ he discovered the moon’s spherical shape and rough texture‚ Venus’ phases‚ and Jupiter’s moons that do not revolve around earth. All which contradicted
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Archimedes is regarded as one of greatest mathematicians and inventors of his time. He was born in Syracuse‚ Sicily around the year 287BC. Archimedes acquired his education in Alexandria‚ Egypt‚ but spent most of his life in Sicily. When in Sicily‚ he stayed in or near Syracuse and did nothing but experiment and research. Archimedes made many contributions to mathematics. One of the more important discoveries Archimedes made was he found a way to measure the areas and volumes of objects that are
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not help Galileo as it made him and easy target for the many complaints of the church. He was summoned and interrogated by the Roman Inquisition for his beliefs of Copernican doctrine. Many religious folk wrote letters to the church about Galileo and how his views were corrupt and wrong. Galileo quickly wrote back explaining his ideas and views defending
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Military strategies contributed to the outcome of WWII by playing on Europe’s fears‚ the Axis Powers’ willingness to use as many of their resources as possible in a hope to win the war quickly‚ and the introduction of new warfare by the Allies. Germany preyed on European country’s fears by manipulating them into believing that he would cooperate at the Munich Conference. Instead‚ Hitler distracted the Allies by posing a Phony War‚ which diverted their attention away from their advances on Danish
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Some of these included leaving on Saturday nights (because local newspapers can not publish runaways until Monday) turning and heading south if slave hunters were near‚ and carrying a drug to put baby’s asleep. She even brought a gun to threaten fugitives who wanted to turn back saying “you’ll be free or die”(pbs.org). She made
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In his review of a new book called "Brief candle in the dark"‚Steven Shapin of The Guardian seems to evenhandedly evaluate Richard Dawkins‚one of the top thinkers of current world. As a professor of "public understanding of science" at Oxford‚ evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins shifted his intellectual emphasis to more of a preacher of "Reasons" that‚according to Dawkins‚are almost exclusively yields of science than clarifying the biological way of understanding the world around us. As a self-professed
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To talk about keeping secrets or how harmful secrecy can be‚we should first know what serecy is.what kind of secrets surround us‚and since when it all started?Secrets were born with the human being.They just follow a cycle since our existence on the plante.The problem is that do we really need secrets?Are they vital to us?If we follow the right path there is no need for secrets but many times we don’t‚we can also make huge mistakes that we better think not to show.So we hide them‚and hiding them
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HOW SHOULD BE A LEADER? There are a lot of intellectuals who have books and different thoughts about government and authority. One of them is Machiavelli who is reputed with his book the Prince’. This book includes some advice to leaders. Machiavelli claims in Prince’ (chapter XVI‚ XVII‚ XVIII) that a prince should be miser than liberal‚ should prefer being feared rather than being loved‚ and should not be faithful. In my opinion‚ a leader shuld not be miser and should prefer being loved
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flesh. The psychological dynamics of his father not being around‚ his torment mother and the reckless child they played in Augustine’s transformation to Christianity. Augustine’s desire for a life of philosophical contemplation and emotional quietude can only be fulfilled by conversion to Christianity. Emotional dimension of conversion as the convert (to varying extents) embraces new networks‚ beliefs‚ and practices while also rejecting old ones. Because conversion was often an ongoing‚
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connoisseurs.” As we delve deeper into the remains of his devoted lifestyle‚ we come to know of a man who supported his students and made significant contributions to the evolution of keyboard technique and style. Was Bach aware of his significance? We can never truly know‚ however‚ we do know the degree of
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