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Vor 6 Tagen · “This book is the story of the Copernican Revolution in all three of these not quite separate meanings – astronomical, scientific, and philosophical.” “Initiated as a narrowly technical, highly mathematical revision of classical astronomy, the Copernican theory became one focus for the
Vor 2 Tagen · But this began what could be called the “Copernican Revolution”, in which (modern secularists would certainly say) we came to realize we just aren’t that special. We’re just another planet in a solar system, whose average star is in a not-that-unique place in a galaxy, which is itself just one of many many galaxies in a huge universe. We’re just that
Vor 3 Tagen · Finally, his discoveries with the telescope revolutionized astronomy and paved the way for the acceptance of the Copernican heliocentric system, but his advocacy of that system eventually resulted in an Inquisition process against him.
- Galileo was a natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who made fundamental contributions to the sciences of motion, astronomy, and stren...
- Galileo invented an early type of thermometer. Although he did not invent the telescope, he made significant improvements to it that enabled astron...
- In 1610 Galileo discovered the four biggest moons of Jupiter (now called the Galilean moons) and the rings of Saturn.
- For his heresy in claiming that Earth orbits the Sun, Galileo was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Roman Catholic Church in 1633. He was not t...
- Galileo influenced scientists for decades to come, not least in his willingness to stand up to the church to defend his findings. His improvements...
Vor 5 Tagen · They bring together the ideas of the planet and the commons into a concept of “the planetary commons.” The idea of the planetary commons recognizes that there are critical biophysical systems – such as rainforests, wetlands, the atmosphere, and the cryosphere – located across national jurisdictions that are necessary for earth’s overall climate stability.
Vor 4 Tagen · Astronomy, the study of celestial bodies and their movements, held a place of particular importance in the medieval curriculum. Drawing on the works of Ptolemy and Arabic astronomers like al-Khwarizmi and al-Farghani, students learned to calculate the positions of the stars and planets, predict eclipses, and understand the structure of the ...
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