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    is where the Sun and other planets‚ moons and stars revolve around the Earth. The heliocentric model states that the Earth and other planets rotate around the Sun. Scientists such as Johannes Kepler‚ Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton were vital in proving that heliocentrism is true. This includes Galileo studies of the moons of Jupiter‚ Kepler’s Law of Planetary Motion and Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation. Kepler’s 3 laws of planetary motion were the: * Laws of Ellipses * Laws of Areas

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    5 FILIPINO PHYSICISTS 5 FOREIGN PHYSICISTS GALILEO GALILIE BLAISE PASCAL LEONHARD EULER JOSEPH FOURIER SIR GEORGE GABRIEL STROKES Galileo Galilei | 1564-1642 Italian | performed fundamental observations‚ experiments‚ and mathematical analyses in astronomy and physics; discovered mountains and craters on

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    without a little bit of conflict. Galileo Galilei‚ the protagonist of Life of Galileo‚ was put at odds with himself‚ forced to face an internal conflict. He was a university lecture by occupation‚ but was first and foremost a researcher‚ specifically interested in astrology. However‚ Galileo was financially struggling. In order to advance his findings‚ he found himself in a personal predicament; to lie about inventing the telescope to gain 500 scudi. Unashamedly‚ Galileo fabricated that it was his own

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    and gravity. He also invented the reflecting telescope and co-invented the mathematic process of calculus.  2. Albert Einstein developed theories of relativity‚ and won a Nobel Prize for his work on the photoelectric effect.  3. Galileo Galilei improved on the refracting telescope and discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter‚ but he is most well-known for standing up for Copernican theories of a heliocentric universe against church authority and opposition.  4. Michael Faraday

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    believe that cultivating strong ideals that may transcend existing reality is more important than developing a refined understanding of reality; which is seen in a couple of seventeenth century works by authors such as Cervantes‚ art from Pozzo‚ Galileo and Descartes. Looking at Cervantes’ novel of Don Quixote‚ you instantly know that the story is going to transcend reality when Don Quixote begins to act out of normal character. The novel is hilarious because it transcends normal reality and

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    how much money we are supposed to receive in return. Math skills help us with calculating and knowing the distance between one place or another. If I were again beginning my studies‚ I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics. ( Galilei 2000). Writing is another important part of getting a education. Without any writing skills how would we be able to express our selfs. Writing helps us write down facts to help us remember things. Writing also helps us give feed back on what

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    substitute a temporary king during the interval around the eclipse‚ thus giving protection to the real king. The substitute was killed afterwards‚ so that omen was always fulfilled. A famous conflict: Perhaps the most famous conflict was between Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) and the Roman Catholic Church‚ largely over the movements within the solar system. At the time: The Church interpreted the Bible as teaching the geocentric system in which the Earth is at the center of the universe. The Sun‚ Moon

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    asserting that the sun is really located in the center of the world and only revolves on its axis is a dangerous thing to do as it is damaging to the Holy Faith by making the Scriptures false (Blackwell‚ 265). He referred to the Joshua passage that both Galileo and Foscarini talked about in their argument and combated it by pointing out that the Council of Trent prohibited the interpretation of Scripture contrary to what the Holy Fathers agreed upon; which was that the sun was in the heavens and rotated

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    Europa was found on 8 January 1610 by Galileo Galilei. The disclosure‚ alongside three other Jovian moons‚ was the first run through a moon was found circling a planet other than Earth. The disclosure of the four Galilean satellites fortified the view that planets in our nearby planetary group circle the sun‚ rather than Earth. Galileo evidently had watched Europa on 7 January 1610‚ however had been not able separate it from Io until the following night. Galileo initially called Jupiter’s moons the

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    other and looked through both‚ a far object seemed magnified or bigger. From there‚ Lippershey experimented with the lenses and was later known as telescope. Years later‚ Galileo Galilei developed Lippershey’s invention and was able to magnify objects 40x bigger than its appearance in the naked eye. Through this‚ Galilei was able to see heavenly bodies that made him discover that four moons are orbitting around the planet Jupiter. Centuries later‚ J.P. Lemiere‚ a French citizen‚ invented the

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