The Pythagorean theorem (A^2 + B^2 = C^2) has been impacting all types of people and careers since it was first realized during Ancient Greece times. It is one of the most widely recognized theorems in the mathematics community‚ and used much more than the average person knows: whether you need need to know the dimensions of a bag or you need find the distance from location to another‚ the Pythagorean theorem can be used. Everyone who was taught this theorem in their first year of algebra continues
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Philosopher Francis Bacon was a major contributor to the Enlightenment. He was one of the most important people to the new ideas of science and how the world worked. Bacon created world changing ideas about how the world worked‚ and how science should be carried out. He modernized the idea of the scientific theory. Previously‚ many scientists who lived before him believed that you should only make a hypothesis based on logical reasoning and arguments. Bacon disagreed with them‚ saying that people
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Although many historians may argue that the culture of the Renaissance maintained societies in Medieval Europe‚ however the culture of the Renaissance developed societies of Medieval Europe because science became more advanced. According to the pictures of Document B‚ before Copernicus‚ people believed that the Earth was the center of the universe. Then when Copernicus stated that the sun was the center of the universe‚ he got into trouble with the church‚ and everyone thought he was crazy. Today
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Chris McCandless in Into The Wild is quite the adventurer‚ he travels all across the pacific region only to find himself a death of starvation. He felt no remorse for leaving his parents family and friends all for a life of adventure. Similar to chris in his rebel spirit was the early astronomer Galileo Galilei. He proposed theories in his era of science that seemed impossible and absurd to his peers(Marks 2). That took courage and guts to stand up against the odds and do what you love. These two
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Scientific Revolution: Galileo Galilei The scientific revolution is truly a revolution in that people started to question commonly held beliefs and replace them with new ideas that not only made people rethink the universe they lived in but also their religious beliefs. The early scholars discussed in Chapter 16 of Joshua Cole and Carol Syme’s textbook Western Civilizations did not set out to change people’s religious beliefs‚ rather bring better explanations for these commonly held beliefs. An
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Stephen Hawking is a British theoretical physicist‚ he was born on January the 8th‚ 1942. Hawking has worked extensively on the subject of black holes‚ providing theories for their behavior‚ including the idea that they gave out radiation. Hawking suffers from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis‚ a type of motor neuron disease that has left him almost completely paralyzed. Hawking has made many important contributions to the fields of cosmology and the laws of gravity. He is also well known for his bestselling
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Neil Phillips Jr. History 52 5/30/2012 During the 16th and 17th centuries Europe underwent change in Science. The Scientific Revolution changed the way people were able to perceive things and with this it attacked the already instituted system of Scholasticism. This new perception had effect on other areas besides science; it had an effect on philosophy. Natural philosophers using reason instead of faith‚ produced philosophies based on existing knowledge. These natural philosophers include Francis
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The Scientific Revolution has made a huge impact on the world around us today. It all started with philosophers in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Two of them are Thomas hobbes who is an English Philosopher‚ and then later came along John Locke‚ another English philosopher and physician. Both of them were deeply influenced by the scientific revolution. One of the most crucial things in our intellectual history is the Scientific Revolution. The Scientific Revolution was a change in the way
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Hamilton O. Smith is an ordinary man‚ that made one of the most extraordinary discoveries of his generation. Hamilton was always surrounded by great scientist. He lived in a small community of university professors‚ great teachers from his university prep school‚ and of course his parent’s professors at the local university. He was brought up to thrive in an academic environment. He learned French by the age of eleven and mastered the piano by the time he was fifteen. His friends helped him on his
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Middles Ages to the Enlightenment and the 19th Century There are quite many changes that subsequently took place in the evolution of knowledge in the period of the middle Ages through the Enlightenment and 19th century. The Age of Enlightenment is stated to have been a cultural movement of a breed of intellectuals as from 17th and 18th century through to the 19th century. It is stated to have begun in the European continent spreading later to the American colonies. It is attributed that the purpose
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