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27. Juni 2024 · Before his name was given to a satellite system, a rocket, and a Star Trek shuttle, before he'd been branded a martyr for science, a second Socrates or a heretic; before being lauded for inventing modern mechanics, astronomy and cosmology, he spent many years as an under-paid university professor.
25. Juni 2024 · Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de’ Galilei – universally known just by his Christian name Galileo – was an astronomer, physicist and mathematician whose experiments revolutionised science and laid the foundations of modern physics.
Vor einem Tag · Galileo has been called the father of observational astronomy, modern-era classical physics, the scientific method, and modern science. Galileo studied speed and velocity, gravity and free fall, the principle of relativity, inertia, projectile motion and also worked in applied science and technology, describing the properties of the ...
13. Juni 2024 · History of science - Enlightenment, Revolution, Progress: Even as Dante was writing his great work, deep forces were threatening the unitary cosmos he celebrated. The pace of technological innovation began to quicken.
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13. Juni 2024 · Hellenic science was built upon the foundations laid by Thales and Pythagoras. It reached its zenith in the works of Aristotle and Archimedes. Aristotle represents the first tradition, that of qualitative forms and teleology. He was himself a biologist whose observations of marine organisms were unsurpassed until the 19th century.
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13. Juni 2024 · History of science - Tycho, Kepler, Galileo: The critical tradition began with Copernicus. It led directly to the work of Tycho Brahe, who measured stellar and planetary positions more accurately than had anyone before him. But measurement alone could not decide between Copernicus and Ptolemy, and Tycho insisted that the Earth was ...
Vor 6 Tagen · The Galileo Project. Professor Albert Van Helden, Rice University. This award-wining site offers valuable information on the life and work of the Italian scientist Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), as well as on the scientific community of 17th-century Europe.
