HISTORY OF THERMOMETERS DATE | EVENT | DESCRIPTION | 1593 | Galileo Thermoscope | In 1593, Galileo Galilei invented a thermoscope, which for the first time, allowed temperature variations to be measured. It was a container filled with bulbs of varying mass, each with a temperature marking. As the temperature changed so with the waters buoyancy, and some of the bulbs would sink and others would float. The lowest bulb indicated what temperature it is. | 1612 | Santorio Thermoscope | Santorio Sontorio
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Abstract Eight planets, fifty-eight moons, thousands of asteroids, and billions of meteoroids and comets and one dwarf planet named Pluto orbit the grand star, the Sun. Around and around they go. These planets and other object came from a huge explosion. The Big Bang Theory, which states that the universe began as a dense and hot point that was less than a fraction of an inch and has continued to evolve into what it is known as of today. The origin of the galaxy seems a mystery. But over time
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(It is another thing that I liked of this book So far). The author provided a brief summary of his past and a comparison between him and Galileo. It is also mentioned that Smith had never studied Economics in college. This is surprising because Smith is the reason he is even mention in New Ideas from Dead Economics. Although he did not take a course in economics he was inspired to write of
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this course will begin with the physics of Aristotle, look at important episodes in the development of science such as the work of Copernicus and Galileo, and conclude with Newton and his massive achievement in creating a framework for modern physics. These historical episodes will provide the jumping-‐off
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In order to achieve high velocity in dense objects like the "plummet", the influence of the air resistance should be ignored , and thus the objects near the surface of the Earth will have a constant rate whatever the mass of the object is. Galileo illustrated that the distance of the falling object was proportional to the square of the time as shown in the following equation: --- g is the constant value of the acceleration due to gravity, which is 982cm/s^2, and V1 is the initial velocity
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Jupiter has more than 60 known moons. The four largest are known as the Galilean Moons. They were discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610. These moons have some of the most interesting geology in the solar system. The four largest moons of Jupiter consist of: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. According to Wikipedia the moons “are the most massive objects in the solar system with the exception with the Sun and the eight planets, with radii larger than any of the dwarf planets.” Io’s landscape consists
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Science and Religion can coexist. PHI 103 July 15, 2013 Science and Religion can coexist. As far back as the history of humankind can assert, human beings have had a desire and an affinity to search for the truth. Human beings want to know about the truth behind the world and its existence. Human beings begin to seek and provide answers to questions asked through the distinctly different disciplines known as science and religion. However, science and religion are not as separate as one
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of scientific inquiry would assure man's mastery over the world. He was the originator of the expression, "Knowledge is power." He was quite taken up by the "materialist" theories and the resultant discoveries of both Copernicus and Galileo. Bacon, along with Galileo, are known in the literature as "the great anti-Aristotelians who created the 'modern scientific' view of Nature." Francis Bacon was born at London. He entered Trinity College, Cambridge, at the age of twelve. He studied law and became
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that nothing he could say or do made people feel they were living on a moving, spinning planet” (Gingerich & MacLachlan, 2005, p. 111) The four major contributors to the development of modern astronomy after Copernicus were Johannes Keppler, Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein. Keppler defended the Copernican system in developing the three laws of planetary motion. Kepler’s First, Second and Third Laws are 1. The orbit of every planet is an ellipse with the sun at a focus.
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Yin (2005) suggested that researchers should decide whether to do single-case or multiple-case studies and chose to keep the case holistic or have embedded sub-cases. This two-by-two combination can produce four basic designs for case studies. When selecting a case for a case study, researchers often use information-oriented sampling , as opposed to random sampling [3]. This is because an average case is often not the richest in information. Extreme or atypical cases reveal more information because
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