Johannes Kepler was a German astronomer who was important to the progression of the Scientific Revolution. He was a great mathematician and was one of the chief founders of modern astronomy. His education contributed to his discoveries in astronomy, including his finding of three major laws of planetary motion. Johannes Kepler was born on December 27, 1571 in Weil, Germany. His father, Heinrich Kepler, was a mercenary; although his family was Lutheran, he fought for a Catholic army and fought Reformed insurgents. Then, about more than a decade later, Kepler's father left the family. Kepler had first attended a church school in Leonberg. At 13, he was accepted at the Adelberg monastery school, which widened his religious knowledge. Wanting
Isaac Newton was a British Mathematician and Philosopher. He published his most acclaimed book Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica. He is also credited with the discovery of the essential theories of calculus alongside with Gottfried Leibniz, he also discovered the binomial theorem among many other accomplishments. He was of being one of the greatest minds in the 17th century scientific revolution.
Anders Celsius was born on November 27,1701 in Uppsala, Sweden. Celsius was raised a Lutheran. His father was an astronomy professor. He completed school in his hometown Uppsala. In school Anders Celsius showed extraordinary talent in his mathematical skills. He studied at Uppsala University just like his father had done.He joined as a professor of astronomy in 1730.
He was an amazing mathematician, astounding physicist, but he is most known for proving that the sun does not revolve around the Earth, and it is the other way around. He is most famous for the discovery of the heliocentric orbit of Earth. With the help of Kepler and Copernicus, he proved that the Earth isn't the center of the universe. He sentenced under house arrest by the church for saying something against the Bible. In addition he had to say to the public that his research is wrong but he knew that the Earth didn't stay still.
Our knowledge about the sky has dramatically increased because of Galileo Galilei. One of his most significant achievements with astronomy was the discovery of other universes. The word “world” in Latin meant Universe during the 1500s. And they believed that our world was the universe, and nothing more past what the eye could see. Galileo invented the idea that we are not the only universe. He changed the words “world” and “universe” from one meaning into two. (Wootton Page 251) He proved that we have our world and then we have the universe surrounding our world. This discovery of another universe opened the door to more imaginary ideas and allowing people to question the things we see and imagine things we cannot see. Galileo also proved what
"Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, let Newton be! And all was light." - - Alexander Pope
Johannes Kepler was on December 27, 1571 in Weil der Stadt, Baden-Wurttemberg. Johannes’s grandfather was actually mayor of the city, but once Johannes was born all the wealth was gone. Kepler’s father was a mercenary and left Johannes when he was five, and his mother was a ‘healer’ or ‘herbalist’. Johannes was born premature which caused him to be sickly throughout childhood. He contracted smallpox at a very age and it caused him to become visually impaired, but he soon outgrew his sickly stage and then dived into his studies.
He was taught under Brache in Prague. Kepler was a mathematician and calendar maker. Bache taught him because of how impressive his mathematical skills were. He was able to calculate the positions of the planets. In 1604, he discovered a new star, which was actually the Milky Way’s last supernova. In 1609 he published Astronomia Nova (New Astronomy) which launched his heliocentric view of the universe and the first two laws of planetary motion. The first being that planets move in an elliptical, not spherical, orbit with the Sun being one of the foci, or center point. The second law stated that the planets will rotate and why doing so cover equal area in equal time no matter where in the orbital it
Isaac Newton was born on January 4th, 1643. Newton was an established analyst and math expert, and was considered as one of the skilled minds of the 17th century Scientific Revolution.With his discoveries in optics, movement and mathematics, Newton improved the ways of thinking/basic truths/rules of modern remedy. His father was a prosperous local farmer, with the name also, Isaac Newton, who happened to have passed away when Newton was only 3 months old.When Newton was born, he was very tiny and weak so the doctors suggested that he would not survive. Isaac lived to the age of 84 years old. (Bio.com)Newton’s mother, Hannah Ayscough Newton, left Isaac with his maternal grandmother, because she left him for a man named Barnabas Smith, whom she married and lived her life with.This experience left Newton, broken-hearted, but he did not want to give up; no not at all, he kept leaning towards his interest, and drooling over his magnificent work.
Inventor and astronomer Galileo Galilei is one of the most well-known scientists in the history of the world. Galileo has been credited for many astonishing inventions such as the pendulum and the telescope. Through many years of research and studious acts, he discovered behaviors of the universe that still hold true today. Galileo, “the Father of Modern Science”, changed the world.
He was one of the first who created the "looker" (now called telescope) by placing two pieces of lenses together. The discovery that placing lenses together can magnify images was made by children who took Lippershey's spectacles and looked at a distant church tower. One of the most influential scientists associated with the telescope has to be Galileo. He took the design and reinvented the telescope into one of the first refractive telescopes we use to this day. Galileo used this great invention to report astronomical facts such as the moon is covered with craters instead of being smooth, the Milky Way is composed of millions of stars, and Jupiter has four moons.
Johannes Brahms was born in May 7, 1833 in Germany. His father, Johann, was a bassist in the Hamburg Philharmonic Society, so he taught Brahms music at an early age. Brahms started to play piano at the age of seven. He then became a musician and used his talent to earn money to support his family and his future education.
Another important individual who drove history was the Italian astronomer and scientist Galileo Galilei. Galileo discovered something so important that it changed the selfish perspective that humans were the center of the universe and led to the growth of human knowledge. Utilizing mathematics and a telescope he had developed, Galileo observed that the planets revolved around the sun and not the Earth. This was a significant discovery because not only did it contradict what the church had taught, it also showed that the universe was not what it seemed. With this truth uncovered, many people began to fascinate over the universe. This triggered people to begin studying space extensively and eventually lead to present day space exploration. Galileo also left a lasting impression upon many great minds, such as Sir Isaac Newton, who used Galileo's research and theories to further his own studies such as the physical laws, and their properties.
Hans Luther wanted to give his children better education than he has himself growing up. They started to teach Martin as soon as they could. Even if he was at home he was always learning. But in school because the schoolteachers were ignorant, he received fifteen whippings one morning at school. Martin referred the name of "school" to "hell and purgatory". When the schoolmasters at Mansfeld were through pounding Latin into Luther with a stick, he was getting ready to go to Magdeburg for school. Because Luther was so poor to have money for his own expenses, Luther had to sing in the streets. It was common for Luther to see other students as poor as him standing in front of wealthy citizen houses. Sometimes they were invited to come in for some food. He stayed in Magdeburg for about one year before moving to Eisenach and going to a school known as The School Of St. George. Ursula Cotta heard Luther singing in the street for money. So she and her Husband, Conrad, invited Luther to come into their beautiful home and share its comforts with them. Then in about May of 1501, Luther enrolled as a student at Erfurt. Then in 1502, he took the degree of Bachelor of Arts and three years later that of Master of Arts.
Isaac Newton was born on January 4, 1643 in Woolsthorpe, England where he grew up. His father, also named Isaac Newton, was a prosperous farmer who died three months before Isaacs’s birth. Isaac was born premature; he was very tiny and weak and wasn’t expected to live (bio).