For 2000 years, Europeans believed earth was at the center of the universe. This is also known as the Ptolemaic theory. Nicolaus Copernicus, a Polish astronomer in the late 15thearly 16th century was unsatisfied with the belief that all heavenly bodies revolve around the earth. So in 1512, Copern...

Johannes Kepler, was a German astronomer and natural philosopher, noted for formulating and verifying the three laws of planetary motion. These laws are now known as Kepler's laws. Johannes Kepler was born in Weil der Stadt in Swabia, in southwest Germany. From 1574 to 1576 Johannes lived with his ...

The full implications of Copernicanism could be considered to have only emerged within the last century, sustained by the arrival of Quantum Mechanics and the breakdown of religious, political and ideological eschatology. Its principles can be seen to lead directly to the homogeneous and isotropic F...

The Scientific Revolution brought many new ideas and beliefs not only to Europe but the entire world. The most widely influential was an epistemological transformation that we call the \"Scientific Revolution.\" In the popular mind, we associate this revolution with natural science and technological...

Galileo Galilei was an Italian physicist and astronomer, who made significant discoveries in astronomy, invented the telescope, one of the most substantial inventions in science and astronomy, and laid the foundation for modern physics. One of his greatest struggles was with the Roman Catholic Churc...

The scientific revolution dated back to the sixteenth century and went through the eighteenth century. The scientific revolution began with the study of astronomy and physics and ended after René Descartes's idea of deductive reasoning. Religious authorities rejected the Cop...

Scientific Revolution Prior to the scientific revolution, Greek philosophers such as Aristotle or astronomers like Claudius Ptolemy believed that the earth was the centre of the universe and the church sanctioned their ideas (Science and Religion in Western History, 1995, Frederick Gregory). How...

During the 17th and 18th centuries, there were great advancements in the scientific field. These advancements included scientific, mathematic, and planetary discoveries. Unfortunately, along with these discoveries came fear of that which isn't understood. The works of Copernicus, Galileo, and...

Throughout history numerous revolutions have occurred. All of these revolutions have impacted the lives of people and changed the course of human history. Whether it be introducing new mathematical ideas or failing to create the right government, everyone is affected by these revolutions in some w...

Galileo is known as science's most dramatic character. He is known as a rebel philosopher who advocated free though in a country where individual opinion was detested. He confronted authority and tradition by putting his beliefs in his scientific work before those of religion. His concept of q...

Galileo Galilei was an Italian philosopher, physicist and astronomer. Considered the father of modern astronomy he was the first to observe and see the solar system as no one has before. He was a teacher of mathematics and physics at the universities of Pisa and Padua. Galileo was a distinguish...

Throughout the history of astronomical theory, there have been two main theories on the setup and placement of the heavenly bodies within our observed universe. The two theories are the geocentric model, our earliest theory, wherein the earth is at the center of everything, and everything rotates ar...

Galileo Galilei was an astronomer and mathematician, he was, a man ahead of his time. Galileo discovered the law of uniformly accelerated motion towards the Earth, the parabolic path of projectiles, and the law that all bodies have weight. Among his other accomplishments was the improvement of the r...

Nicholas Copernicus was never supposed to be a revolutionary in the field of revolutions. This Polish merchant's son, groomed to be a church canon, was not the sort of man to be running around changing the world; he was not even published until near his death, in 1543. Copernicus had been preceded...

The Discovery of KeplerUsing the precise data that Tycho had collected, Kepler discovered that the orbit of Mars was an ellipse. Man being, as Kepler believed, made in the image of God, was clearly capable of understanding the Universe that He had created. Moreover, Kepler was convinced that God had...

On February 19, 1473 Nicolaus Copernicus was born, destined to be one of the most influential men in scientific history. Throughout his years, Copernicus has contributed many thoughts to science. The Autograph De Revolutionibus, preserved in the Jagiellonian Library, is a result of work of the great...

Eight Scientist ResearchSince the dawn of time, man has yearned to know the origin of existence, how life was started, and the source of creation. Many scientists, from ancient Greece to modern civilization, began the search for answers by first studying our solar system, mapping the stars, tr...

The Renaissance was a time for reform. Renaissance, French for rebirth, describes the intellectual and economic changes that occurred in Europe from the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries. During this time, Europe emerged from the economic decline of the Middle Ages and experienced a time ...

Nicolaus Copernicus was a Polish astronomer, best known for the astronomical theory that the sun is stationary and Earth, spinning on it's axis once daily, revolves around the sun annually. He was very intelligent and was educated at various universities. If Copernicus hadn't challenged Pltolmy's ...

Hearing early in 1609 that a Dutch optician, named Lippershey, had produced an instrument by which the apparent size of remote objects was magnified, Galileo at once realized the principle by which such a result could alone be attained, and, after a single night devoted to consideration of the laws ...