my head is the Galileo affair. Back in 1610 the Catholic world strongly believed that the earth was the center of the universe and did not move. The controversy began when Galileo started his telescopic studies and published a book called The Starry Messenger. This book stated new observations on Venus and Jupiter that proved how Venus had sun spots from it revolving the sun and moons were orbiting Jupiter. The belief that all planets orbit the sun was called the heliocentric theory. When the Catholic
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Hum300GD Johannes Kepler was born the son of a poor mercenary solider in 1571 in Weil der Stadt‚ Wurttemburg in the Holy Roman Empire. He began his education in Wurttemburg through a scholarship program designed to produce teachers and Lutheran pastors. In 1589‚ Kepler entered the theological seminary at the University of Tubingen. It was here that he first learned of Copernican astronomy from Michael Maestlin. The University of Tubingen awarded Kepler his MA in 1591. In 1594 Kepler interrupted
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language tele "far" and skopein "to see or look" i.e. teleskopos "far-seeing) was coined in 1611 by the Greek mathematician Giovanni Demisiani for one of Galileo Galilei’s instruments presented at a banquet at the Accademia dei Lincei in the Starry Messenger‚ Galileo had used the term "perspicillum". History The earliest recorded working telescopes were the refracting telescopes that appeared in the Netherlands in 1608. Their development is credited to three individuals: Hans Lippershey and Zacharias
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and it was made much easier when Hans Lippershey‚ a Dutch spectacle grinder‚ was experimenting with mirrors and invented the telescope (Dolan 21). Galileo Galilei caught on with the idea of refracting mirrors and published his findings in The Starry Messenger in March 1610 (MacLachlan 45). When his teachings taught that the moon’s surface had mountains and valleys‚ implying that the moon was not a perfect sphere‚ it stirred things up and started a domino effect of discoveries to be made about the
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Galileo Galilei was an esteemed astronomer who lived in the time of great discoveries. Galileo was born in Pisa‚ Italy on February 15th‚ 1564. He soon moved to Florence with his family where he began his education in a monastery in Vallombrosa. He enrolled in the University of Pisa seven years later to study medicine. However‚ Galileo soon became interested in mathematics and the physical sciences. This interest brought an end to his medical studies. He spent three years searching for a teaching
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Galileo Galilei‚ often referred to as the ‘father of experimental physics’ (18)‚ was of many roles a mathematician‚ philosopher and astronomer. He began his studies at the University of Pisa in 1581‚ attending until 1585 but earning no degree. After proving his talent in mathematics with written papers‚ proofs and the occasional public lecture‚ Galileo secured a teaching profession at the University of Pisa in 1589 and so began his career-long experimental science journey. At the time‚ the Aristotelian
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surface" (History.com‚ 2010). Galileo also discovered that the earth was the one revolving around the sun each year and revolved on its axis each day. He immediately wrote out a paper outlining his discoveries‚ referred to as “Siderius Nuncius” (“The Starry
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by a Dutch eyeglass maker‚ Hans Lippershey‚ which could magnify objects. Galileo made his own telescope with improved magnification. He decided to turn his telescope up toward the heavens. A year after‚ he published a small booklet entitled “Starry Messenger” which was about the discoveries he found with his telescope. Most of Galileo’s findings were contradicting Aristotle and the Church’s doctrine. In 1611‚ Galileo went to Rome to demonstrate his telescope. After having been accepted at Rome‚ Galileo
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Why Coyote Howls at the Moon It was a starry night on the plains of the Cherokee Territory. Little Bear and his father Chief Brown Elk were sitting on a stump outside of their teepee listening to the songs of the night. When over the sharp crackle of the fire before them‚ came that familiar howl. The howl they heard almost every night when the clouds seemed to disappear forever. It was Coyote. Little Bear turned to his father and asked with great wonder‚ “Father‚ why does Coyote howl at the moon
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In 1610‚ he published a 24-page booklet called The Starry Messenger. Here he described that the surface of the moon is rough rather than smooth‚ proved the existence of many more distant stars than were currently known‚ and went into detail about how he saw the planets through his telescope that appeared as circular
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