Major Contributors to Astronomy Tycho Brahe is known for his accurate and comprehensive astronomical and planetary observations.Tycho Brahe was a Danish nobleman that made vital contributions to astronomy by inventing instruments to observe the sky before the invention or the telescope. In ancient times, Greeks believed that the sky was unchanging and that the stars they saw in the sky had been there since the beginning of time. On November 11, 1572 Tycho saw a star in Cassiopeia that he had never seen before. After a seeing of observations, he realized it was a supernova, which is a death of a massive star. His observations of planetary motion, mostly that of Mars, gave important data for astronomers to come, like Kepler.
This power was focused into the form of a bomb. This bomb would define life for everyone on the earth for the nearly the next 60 years. Although people feared the power of the atomic bomb and later the hydrogen bomb it was a necessary step in the advancement of the scientific understanding of the universe. The main catalyst for the building of the atomic bomb is a letter written to president Franklin D. Roosevelt by the famous physicist Albert Einstein (1). Einstein wrote this letter after learning of the work of Austrian physicist L. Szilard on nuclear fission.
Doctor Richard P. Feynman is a little known scientist to the public, despite his ground-breaking and influential works in physics. Best known for his work on quantum electrodynamics (Weisstein) and the Manhattan Project (Richard Phillips), he is considered one of the most influential scientists in recent history, and is partly responsible for popularizing the sciences to the public. Despite all of his innumerable accolades, he is one of the lesser known scientists of recent history for what he accomplished. Doctor Feynman was born on the 11th of May, 1918 in Manhattan, New York, and was the son of Lucille and Melville Feynman. Both of his parents originated from Russia and Poland, as both were Ashkenazi Jews.
The footage showed that the certain walking skipping techniques you see in the Apollo 11 footage were actually the most efficient way to move around in the moons gravity. Another conspiracy that viewers had was about 2 of the photos taken during the Apollo 11 mission, one of them being about the topography and light sources. On one of the photos you can see that the shadows of the space module and some of the lunar rocks on the moon’s surface have different directions. Conspiracy theorists say that you can’t have 2 different angled shadows from the same light source. The myth busters put this it the test buy building a model of the moon’s surface and used shifted the topography so that it showed to perpendicular shadows from the same light source.
Discovery of 51 Pegasi B In October 1995, a discovery was made by Michael Mayor and Didier Queloz that rocked the foundations of the professional planet seeking world. This discovery was that of a planet, 51 Pegasi B. My paper will focus on the path that two Geneva based astronomers took in discovering the existence of 51 Pegasi B. As the first men to find a planet that rotated so close to a star, they challenged the existing notions that planets could not exist in such close proximities to planets. Their discovery prompted astronomers around the world to look in places where planets were not found to exist and allowed us to further examine how a planet can exist at such extreme temperatures.
With him inventing the one of the first telescopes, he could see multiple areas of space never seen before such as Jupiter. The most exceptional of these observations was Venus’ celestial pattern, which was explained by its revolution around the sun. Galileo’s views contradicted that of the Catholic Church and he was immediately put on trial after a letter he wrote to Duchess of Tuscany was discovered.4 Most of Catholic scientific doctrine came from pagan Greek philosophy. Examples of these were Aristotelian physics: the idea that there were only four elements fire, earth, air, and water.4 These ideas were later
The Scientific Revolution During the 1600’s to 1700’s, the western world was greatly influenced by science. Wonderful scientists such as Galileo, Isaac Newton, Copernicus, and William Harvey all played contributing roles during the Scientific Revolution. Not only did scientists have a large impact on the western world, but discoveries and inventions such as the study of astronomy and the invention of the telescope played important roles as well. In 1564, our world was changed due to the birth of one of the most well-known and influencial scientists, Galileo Galilei. Being the oldest of seven, he set out to learn about medicine and eventually found that he had a passion for arithmetic.
Born February 15th,1564, In Pisa, Italy, Galileo Galilei was a Mathematics professor that made pioneering observations of nature with long lasting implications of physics. But what has really put Galileo’s name on the map was the development of his very first telescope which he pointed to the stars and started to build upon Copernican’s theory of a sun-centered Heliocentric universe. However there is great controversy surrounding Galileo’s life, about whether or not his discoveries, publishings and teachings had a positive or negative effect on modern day science and overall life. There is no doubt that Galileo Galilei was one the key thinkers of the scientific revolution, and through his discoveries during the 1600’s, all of the scientists that he helped or influenced during the scientific revolution and the way that citizens reacted to all of his great findings, it will be proven that Galileo’s contributions positively affected both modern and pre modern science and life. Throughout nearly all of his adult life, Galileo constantly researched and recorded data to try and prove Copernican theory even though it went directly against all catholic teachings at the time, thus leaving the church no choice but to deliver stern punishment.
What is the science of astronomy? Astronomy is a human adventure in the sense that it affects everyone—even those who have never looked at the sky—because the history of astronomy has been so deeply intertwined with the development of civilization. Revolutions in astronomy have gone hand in hand with the revolutions in science and technology that have shaped modern life c. What is the scientific method and how does it relate to the science of astronomy? The scientific method can be defined as the study of anything. Science studies how everything works from the smallest (quarks) to the largest (Galactic clusters and possibly even bigger) But astronomy is just the science or study of how everything interacts in the universe.
Ancient India produced the father of surgery, the great Shusruta. The Shusruta Samhita was composed sometime between the second and the third century. In the said Samhita treatment of various types of poisoning has been dealt with in details. Methods of treatment for injuries, pregnancy and delivery elaborated therein are accepted with praise. However, during the foreign occupation of India, a stagnation in medico-legal systems is observed.