Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662) By Victoria Hubble Blaise Pascal was born in Clermont-Ferrand, France, on June 19th, 1623. His mother, Antoinette Begon, died when he was three; and his father, Etienne, who was a lo...

Blaise Pascal was born in Clermont France on June 19, 1623 to Etienne Pascal. His mother died when he was only 3. He was the third of four children and the only boy. He was described as a man of: small stature, poor health, loud spoken, somewhat overbearing, precious, stubbornly persevering, a per...

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) Galileo Galilei was born near Pisa, Italy, on February 15, 1564 (Drake). Galileo was the first child of Vincezio Galiei, a merchant and a musician (Jaki 289). In 1574, Galileo's family moved from Pisa to Florence, where Galileo started his formal education (Jaki ...

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) Galileo Galilei was born near Pisa, Italy, on February 15, 1564 (Drake). Galileo was the first child of Vincezio Galiei, a merchant and a musician (Jaki 289). In 1574, Galileo's family moved from Pisa to Florence, where Galileo started his formal education (Jak...

Galileo Galileo was a pioneer of modern physics and telescopic astronomy who was born on February 15, 1564 near Pisa, Italy. As an Italian physicist and astronomer, he was the first to use the telescope to discover many undiscovered realms of space. His discoveries of sunspots, lunar mountains an...

Descartes meditations are based on the epistemological theory of rationalism: that is if someone truly knows something then they could not possibly be mistaken. He provides solid arguments for what his meditations stand for, and how he obtained a clear and distinct perception of "innate" ideas. In h...

Analysis of Social Facades Used by Teens After toiling for days, endlessly attempting to spout out a worthy topic to debate on paper, I decided to have an internal argument over why teens use a facade in order to adapt to a socially demanding society. I tooled in my head for hours about this as ...

Ammar: Hi Mr. Euclid. Euclid: Hello Ammar: How are you Sir? Euclid: I am fine thank you. Euclid: How may I help you. Ammar: I want an interview of you Sir for my history teacher. May I get it? Euclid: Yes, sure, why not. So what do you want to ask me? Ammar: If you won't mind, can I as...

Each day hundreds of tourists flock to the Louvre Museum in Paris to admire the most famous painting in the world, the "Mona Lisa." This artist's legacy lives today as his creations continue to inspire artists, scientists, and the common man even four hundred years after his death. This arti...

Our five initial designs consisted of one with two triangulated cantilevered rods with one tension rod, another that was a three rod equilateral pyramid, the third was a triangular cantilevered beam with a tension rod and side support rods at the wall, another had three triangulated cantilevered rod...

Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727), mathematician and physicist, one of the foremost scientific intellects of all time. Born at Woolsthorpe, near Grantham in Lincolnshire, where he went to school, he began to attend Cambridge University in 1661; he was elected a Fellow of Trinity College in 1667,...

The question "What is an illusion?" is one that, at first glance, is strikingly simple to answer. Yet, it has eluded many a psychologist until the latter half of the twentieth century, when the workings of our psyche and the processes that underlie it became apparent to those that devoted...

Rene Descartes asserts that our most fundamental beliefs are uncertain, and consequently, all beliefs resting on these basics are also uncertain. In his First Mediation, he sets out to determine which beliefs are certain and which are doubtful. Descartes applied illusion argument, dreaming argument,...

The Suicide of Meriwether Lewis A report by Charles Emmett Chatham IV 31 January 2000 Chatham 1 In the early hours of October 11, 1806, while en-rout to Wasington to defend himself against accusations made on him i...