“When Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei heard rumors of the first practical telescope at the beginning of the 17th century, he was quick to craft his own version and turn it toward the heavens.” This was the time that Hans Lippershey invented telescopes, so he could look more closely at the stars. Hans Lippershey was the first person to invent a telescope, in 1608. After that, telescopes have been becoming more advanced than that. Now you can see almost all the way to Pluto! “ A Galilean telescope
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hands of a Dutch lens maker, Hans Lippershey. Lippershey developed a device consisting of a tube and a lens allowing the user to view objects up close. Galileo Galilei expanded upon Lippershey’s design creating the modern day telescope using a concave lens. Galileo used his telescope view the items in the night sky including the Milky Way. Galileo revealed that the Earth was not at the center of the universe that was a contrasting view from previous scholars. The development of the telescope has
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Introduction. TECHNOLOGY ! I.1 What is technology? I.2 First Inventors I.3 How science affects technology I.4 Discussion questions I.1 What is technology? Think for a moment what it might be like to live in the 14th century. Image that you could travel back in time and found yourself in a small European village in 1392. What do you think you would find? How would you cook your food? Would you use an oven, a fire, or a microwave? How would you eat your food? Do you think you
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brilliant German astronmer and mathematician Johannes Kepler, used Brahe's data to calculate the orbits of the planets revolving around the Sun. Scientests from many different lands built on the foudations laid by Copernicus and Kepler. In Italy, Galileo Galilei assembled an astronomical telescope. Galileo's discoveries caused an uproar. Despite the opposition of the Church, by the early 1600s a new approach to science had emerged, based upon observation and experimentation. Two gaints of this revolution
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Astronomy Notes: People & Accomplishments: Plato (428/7 B.C.E. – 328/7 B.C.E.) – Greek Philosopher, a student of Socrates, and teacher of Aristotle. Taught of the “World of Forms;” the idea that the material world (the earth) is made of nothing but imperfect copies of what was imagined to be perfect. Also, the perfect World of Forms (heavens) was where ideas, thoughts, concepts, imagination, reason, etc. exists. The seven planets ((in order; Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn)
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research. After exploring the two missions, we need to tell about what they did and what we have learned from them. There are so many missions that have given us great discoveries. However, after I looked into several of them I decided on the Kepler and Galileo missions. Both of these missions were extraordinary and gave astronomers many new insights into the universe we adore. First, we look at the Kepler Mission. Kepler spacecraft launched on March 6, 2009 from the Delta 2 rocket. This mission was set
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Galileo Research Paper Galileo Galilei was one of the many philosophers that helped determine how and why the world worked the way it does. He based many of his experiments and theories off the beliefs of another great philosopher, Nicolaus Copernicus. Both of these scientists’ theories went against Aristotle. Aristotle was a Greek philosopher that observed many aspects of our universe. He made many theories, but never conducted experiments to support them. Although proof was never in place, the
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Galileo Galilei Introduction It is no question that Galileo was an influential scientist in his time and still is today (picture located on page 6 from google.com). Though his most notable discoveries were in the field of astronomy, we cannot label him simply as an astronomer. He authored many important works including, Sidereal Messenger (also known as Starry Messenger), but unfortunately, due to the power of the Catholic church in his native Italy, his work in astronomy was widely rejected by
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Years before Galileo created his own telescope and used it to look at the moon he was a member of the Accademia del Disegno; a place where members of the intellect community could come together to discuss the latest topics in art, science, philosophy and math. But it was at the Accademia del Disegno where Galileo first learned about linear perspective and chiaroscuro the skill of using light and shadow in drawing to make an object look three dimensional. With the use of linear perspective and chiaroscuro
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generation of dedicated man and woman who continue to add new insight of astronomy great spectrum of universe. Some scholars may add a little, some may add a lot, yet some may change our understanding of a matter in question. Such man were Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler and Newton. Those man are credited with revolutionizing the study of astronomy. The heliocentric theory formulated by Copernicus caused strong turmoil within astronomy, physics and cosmology. Many man of science considered it as contrary
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