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    During the Scientific Revolution many great discoveries were made such as J. Kepler’s and Galileo’s findings on plant placement(1609)‚ Sir Isaac Newton’s laws of motion(1680)‚ and the Telescope(1609)‚ but which of these discoveries lead to greater finding of the Scientific Revolution. With the telescope J. Kepler and Galileo could continue their research on plant placement . In fact I can prove that the telescope was one of the greatest discoveries/inventions of the Scientific Revolution because

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    philosophizing and innovation had ensued. Great minds such as Kepler and Galileo‚ challenged the beloved “truths” of Aristotle and disproved them Other thinkers such as Rene Descartes and Francis Bacon revised the scientific method‚ allowing Newton to make landmark discoveries in physics From these discoveries

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    Holiday Homework Class- VIII English 1. Write 20 idioms and 20 phrases and learn their meanings. 2. Search five English poems full of similie and create five more using same poetic device. 3. Prepare a book review of Ch-1 from the novel ‘Shakespear’ and read all the chapters. 4. Write on coloured sheet‚ Verbs and their meanings with forms (Present & Past Participle in a tabular form). 5. Write difficult word meaning in the Phonics Books till page No. 24. Activity Based Learning: Make a collage

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    of an equation provided that the function f[x] is equal to zero. Newton Method is an equation created before the days of calculators and was used to find approximate roots to numbers. The roots of the function are where the function crosses the x axis. The basic principle behind Newton’s Method is that the root can be found by subtracting the function divided by its derivative from the initial guess of the root. Newtons Method worked well because an initial guess was given to put into

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    considered wrong. Authorities were outraged and put Galileo on trial as a suspect of heresy. In court‚ Galileo was forced to state that all of his findings were wrong which sentenced him to a house arrest for the rest of his life. 3.6 Galileo‚ Newton‚ and Hawking 2. Describe‚ using an example‚ how Newton’s law of motion have affected your own life. Newton’s first law of motion has definitely affected my own life. For example‚ Newton’s first law of

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    John Tyndall Imagination

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    Imagination has become important to the revolution of society and nature. John Tyndall‚ an Irish natural philosopher of the nineteenth century‚ believed that our mind and spirit must work together. Tyndall published his essay called “Scientific Use of the Imagination‚” where it seems that it was written to validate his position on the scientific use of imagination and to persuade other scholars as science was expanding into universities. John Tyndall belief was that we need imagination to uncover

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    Johannes Kepler

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    achievements proved many things in which today ’s modern scientists use. Kepler discovered one of the most famous discoveries of astronomy. Planets orbit the sun. The sun does not orbit the planets. He posed a question of the planetary motion. Later‚ Newton took to answer. Kepler also came across the paths of planets. Their path was elliptical‚ not circular. Planets move in ellipses with the sun at one focus. Prior to this in 1602‚ Kepler found from trying to calculate the position of the Earth in its

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    Contents Pages OBJECTIVES 3 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 4 INTRODUCTION 5 PART 1 6 PART 2 7-12 PART 3 13-17 FURTHER EXPLORATION 18-19 REFLECTION 20-21 OBJECTIVES We students taking Additional Mathematics are required to carry out a project while we are in Form Five. This project can be done in groups or individually‚ but each of us is expected to submit an individually report. Upon completion of the Additional Mathematics Project Work‚ we are to gain valueable experiences and able to:

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    Alhazen Ibn Al-Haytham

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    Fearing for his life‚ he feigned madness and was placed under house arrest from 1011 – 1021‚ during and after which he devoted himself to his scientific work until his death. Ibn al-Haytham most famous works‚ Books of optics‚ which he has been ranked Isaac Newton’s Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (PNPM) as one of the most influential books in physics for introducing an early scientific method‚ and for initiating a revolution in optics and visual perception. Ibn al-Haytham made significant

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    We need to question everything. Questioning ideas and things we know as fact is how we learn and progress. Galileo Galilei‚ Johannes Kepler‚ and Isaac Newton understood this. Science had some answers for things‚ however since they questioned those things they were able to get to truth. Galileo was born in 1564. He was a professor of mathematics. It is a common misconception that Galileo invented the telescope. However‚ that is not true. Galileo was the first person to look at the sky through a telescope

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