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    What factors happened to help transition into Renaissance? What came from the transition? Many factors helped transition into the Renaissance. First off‚ there was a less dense population due to the Hundred Year’s War and Bubonic Plague. Many serfs died and the remaining populations realized they don’t have to be controlled by the nobles and get better wages by leaving. From this‚ trade flourished from the new merchants and the feudal system collapsed. From the website‚http://www.biography.com/people/petrarch-9438891

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    problems and even discover new planets and stars. In 1512‚ Copernicus theorized that the planets orbit the sun and the race to uncover new planets began. Historically‚ most of the famous astronomers have been men‚ such as Galilei Galileo and Johannes Kepler. Other men have made planet discoveries. For example‚ William Herschel uncovered Uranus‚ and Clyde Tombaugh found Pluto. Recently‚ there has been a new “man” on the planet hunting team‚ and she is a “woman”. Dr. Debra Fischer is a professor of

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    The Scientific Revolution was a series of of discoveries that led to a better understanding of the world around us. There were many philosophers that contributed to the advancements that occurred during this time. These advancements affected the modern day understanding of our universe and changed the way many looked at science as a whole. This time period involved many brilliant philosophers who devoted their lives to understanding the universe and developing a more accurate idea of how things work

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    Bürgi independently invented logarithms but published six years after Napier. Johannes Kepler‚ who used logarithm tables extensively to compile his Ephemeris and therefore dedicated it to Napier‚  remarked: ...the accent in calculation led Justus Byrgius [Joost Bürgi] on the way to these very logarithms many years before Napier’s system appeared; but ...instead of rearing up his child for the public benefit he deserted it in the birth. —Johannes Kepler‚ Rudolphine Tables (1627) By repeated subtractions Napier calculated (1

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    written several centuries later‚ were so important. Readers of Apollonius’ Conics are better able to understand this text with the aid of these other texts that make the principles easier to understand. It is fortunate that scientists like Johannes Kepler‚ who

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    Kepler’s Laws of Planetary Motion Johannes Kepler is a well renowned scientist‚ who is well known for his discovery of the laws that define the movement of the planets in the universe. With well defined studied and researches‚ Kepler has defined three main laws defining the planetary motion. These laws give a clear overview of the way things move around and are used by the engineers for the development of all related equipment‚ devices and even the study of the planets. We would hence discuss these

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    There is only one way to rearrange the universe‚ and that is to believe that it can move. In the vast expanse of universal antiquities‚ the Earth is as young as it’s sciences. In a revolution of time and space‚ it takes a concern of Earth’s spinning axis to enlighten an entire scientific undertaking of what lies beyond it. Nicholas Copernicus was not apart of the Ptolemaic Theory that the world was geocentric‚ he was the man who put his word against it. As a man of God‚ Copernicus wraps up the world

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    Marie Curie Marie Skłodowska Curie‚ c. 1920 Born Maria Salomea Skłodowska 7 November 1867 Warsaw‚ Kingdom of Poland‚ then part of Russian Empire[1] Died 4 July 1934 (aged 66) Passy‚ Haute-Savoie‚ France Residence Poland‚ France Citizenship Poland (by birth) France (by marriage) Fields Physics‚ chemistry Institutions University of Paris Alma mater University of Paris ESPCI Doctoral advisor Gabriel Lippmann Doctoral students André-Louis Debierne Óscar Moreno Marguerite Catherine

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    Scientific Revolution Preceding the Enlightenment was a “scientific revolution”. In the seventeenth century‚ a group of scientists set the Western world on a new path known as the Scientific Revolution‚ which gave Europeans a new way of viewing the universe and their place in it. In this essay I will discuss the appropriateness of this label and also some of the major figures participating in it. I will also explain how the increased understanding of the physical world that came from “revolution”

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    Copernican theories of a heliocentric universe against church authority and opposition.  4. Michael Faraday showed how a changing magnetic field can be used to generate an electric current‚ used today in modern electric generators.  5. Johannes Kepler outlined the three laws of planetary motion and described the motion of planets around the sun as elliptical. Much of Kepler’s work laid the groundwork for Newton’s discoveries.  6. Archimedes was an ancient Greek‚ one of the first physicists

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