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    including how problems in physics were addressed. Interest in experimentation was also growing among anatomists. Thus‚ during the sixteenth and seventeenth century‚ many new instruments were invented which helped make scientific discovery possible; the telescope‚ the thermometer‚ the vacuum pump‚ the barometer‚ and the microscope. These made new scientific discoveries possible. The printing press had an indirect but crucial role in spreading innovative ideas quickly and easily. Mathematics developed

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    Nursing as a Discipline: It’s Interrelationship with Philosophy‚ Science and Ethics Raymund Christopher R. dela Pena Saint Louis University The discipline of nursing is concerned with how nurses interact with people in relation to their health and within their total environment. Nursing at its core is caring for people within their health experience. The effective nurse is able to think critically‚ feel deeply‚ communicate clearly‚ interact meaningfully‚ assume responsibility‚ exhibit

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    sacraments because‚ they weren’t in the bible. The indulgences that he banned that was enforced by Johann Tetzel‚ which lessened the time a soul would stay in Purgatory‚ Martin Luther banned. Galileo found a huge discovery after training the sky with a telescope all night‚ that would prove the church wrong once again like Martine Luther did in the Protestant Reformation. He discovered that the Church’s and Ptolemy’s views of the universe was wrong. Galileo Galilei found out that the universe was heliocentric

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    the most important. He was the most successful scientist during the revolution but not the most important. He studied physics‚ specifically the laws of gravity and motion‚ and invented the telescope and microscope. Galileo eventually combined his laws of physics with the observations he made with his telescope to defend the heliocentric Copernican view of the universe and refute the Aristotelian system in his 1630 masterwork‚ Dialogue on the Two Chief Systems of the World. Upon its publication‚ he

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    Copernican theory into mainstream thinking. The first being Johannes Kepler of Germany who showed that planetary orbits are elliptical and not circular like the Ptolemaic theory said. Then the second being Galileo Galilei who invented the telescope. With the telescope he was able to observe that space was not a perfect place that Ptolemaic astronomers thought it was. He saw that there were spots on the sun and mountains on the moon. He also saw stars that weren’t visible to the naked eye‚ which proved

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    After researching some articles I finally found this one that couth my full attention. This article was released by NASA on 3/11/2013 and talks about the discovery of the closest star system found in a century. NASA’s made this discovery through there Wide-field Infrared Survey known as “WISE”. WISE discover a pair of stars that is set as the third closest star system to the sun. The founding of these two stars is the closest system founded since 1916. Bothe these two stars are called brown dwarfs

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    He played a huge part in the scientific revolution. He invented the Newtonian telescope that was the first functional reflecting telescope. Another one of his accomplishments was publishing a book in 1687 called Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica that translates to “Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy.” In his book he gave us the three laws

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    paraphrenelia. This is shown in the very beginning of the story where Lord Emsworth is looking through a new telescope and says‚ “I’ve been swindled. This dashed thing won’t work.” His faithful butler‚ Beach‚ responds‚ “Perhaps if I were to remove the cap from the extremity of the instrument‚ my lord‚ more satisfactory results might be obtained.” This dialogue shows us how Lord Emsworth bought the telescope‚ without even realizing its full purpose and fuction. This humorously portrays him as a fanatic‚ interested

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    which was way more than I knew about. I saw a couple models of old telescopes that were used by our famous astronomers back in the day. I believe they had one that Galileo used. They also had an exhibit filled with books and notes that belonged to the great astronomers‚ some of them were duplicates of the originals though. My next stop was the Night Sky Live show which was in a room that looked like a dome. There was a big telescope/projector in the middle of the room and nice comfy chairs all around

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    arcseconds? Solution: Luminosity and Absolute Magnitude What is the apparent magnitude of a star with an absolute magnitude of 8.0 located at distance of 15.0 parsecs? 5 SCI 224 - Scientific Equations Study Guide Week 6 Resolution of a Telescope What is the

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