Tycho Brahe was born on December 14th‚ 1546 in a town called Knudstrup in Scania‚ Denmark. His early years were filled with pain‚ as he was kidnapped by his uncle and raised in his castle in Tostrup‚ Scania. His education was backed by his uncle‚ and he went to the University of Copenhagen to study law from 1559-1562. It was during this time that Brahe developed a love for astronomy. He saw a solar eclipse of the Sun which was predicted for August 21st 1560‚ and he found it fascinating
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The enlightenment was a time of change and acquiring new knowledge all throughout Europe during the eighteenth century. During this time period‚ many of things were accomplished such as scientific advancements with Copernicus and Johannes Kepler and scholastic advancements with Rousseau and Voltaire. The main achievement of the enlightenment though was the exploring of new ideas and the opening of great minds like Napoleon Bonaparte‚ who was a child of the Enlightenment. During his reign‚ he accomplished
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bit‚ philosophers‚ especially in the eighteenth century‚ began to find discrepancies in the ancient model. Copernicus‚ believed that a heliocentric model of the galaxy better accounted for planetary behavior‚ even if it wasn’t the true model. Johannes Kepler found that planetary orbits weren’t perfectly circular‚ but instead‚ are elliptical. Galileo Galilei‚ unlike Copernicus‚ believed that the heliocentric model was the true model of our
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in regular‚ crystalline spheres. The Polish astronomer Nicholas Copernicus‚ however‚ presented a system where the sun was the center of the solar system‚ thereby solving numerous mathematical problems encountered at the time. German astronomer Johannes Kepler further championed Copernicanism by discovering that the path of the planets’ orbits is elliptical rather than circular‚ as was previously thought. English physicist Sir Isaac Newton would later justify this theory by establishing his laws of
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PHYS 1160 Introductory Astronomy and the Search for Life Elsewhere Lecture 1 Introduction to Astronomy This Lecture • What is Astronomy • The Discovery of our Place in the Universe - A brief history • The Scale of the Universe 2 What is Astronomy? • The scientific study of celestial objects – e.g. Planets‚ Stars‚ Galaxies‚ and the Universe as a whole. • It encompasses the study of everything outside the Earth’s atmosphere. • The name comes from the greek words astron ("star") and
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1440: Nicolas Cusanus‚ Earth is in motion 1440: Nicolas Cusanus‚ infinite universe 1450: Johann Gutenberg‚ first printing press in Europe 1472: Johannes Regiomontanus‚ observation of Halley’s comet 1480: Leonardo de Vinci‚ description of parachute 1480: Leonardo de Vinci‚ compares reflection of light to reflection of sound waves 1490: Leonardo de Vinci‚ capillary action 1492: Leonardo de Vinci‚ foresees flying machines 1494: Leonardo de Vinci‚ foresees pendulum clock 1514: Nicolaus Copernicus
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1.|So far as we know‚ the first person who claimed that natural phenomena could be described by mathematics was| |A) Copernicus. B) Pythagoras. C) Aristotle. D) Ptolemy.| |Ans: BSection: Chapter 2‚ Introduction| 2.|The ancient Greek thinker Pythagoras held the view that| A)|triangles do not exist.| B)|natural phenomena are wonderful to watch but cannot be described by mathematics.| C)|the Sun is at the center of the planetary system.| D)|natural phenomena can be described
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his logical experimental methods and his careful and accurate record keeping. 3. A scientist is open-minded and free of bias Example: An open-minded person is one who can modify plans or discard hypotheses if necessary. One such person was Johannes Kepler who was hired to develop evidence that planets moved along perfect circles. 4. A scientist is intellectually honest Example: Isaac Newton built his laws of motion on the previous work of Galileo and others. 5. A scientist works hard and is
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In the past decades‚ scientist always wonders what is beyond earth‚ or as what they call it‚ the universe. As a result‚ had impacted parts of earth that’s been burned down by meteors. Hundreds innocents life were dead because of it. Therefore‚ in 1608‚ as the glassmaking and lens grinding skills was improved‚ Hans Lippershey tried to accuse on a device using three-times magnification. He uses a concave eyepiece coordinate with a convex objective lens. Lots of stories say that he got the idea from
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Earth revolves around the Sun. This postulate was in contrast to that held by the majority. | Charles Darwin | 1809 - 1882 | "On the origin of species by means of natural selection" is Darwin’s famous book published in 1859. | Johannes Kepler | 1571 - 1630 | Kepler compiled the Mars data which enabled him to propose the "Three Laws of Planetary Motion". | Louis Pasteur | 1822 - 1895 | Some of his works are: separation of mirror image molecules and effect of polarized light‚ and identification
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