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- Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ...]. The work of Galileo is considered to be a significant break from that of [[Aristotle]]. In additio...
5: Galileo was born in [[Pisa]], [[Italy]], as the son of [[...
7: ...rsity of Pisa]], but was forced to "drop out" for financial reasons. However, he was offered a positio...
10: ...losophy]] or religion. These are the primary justifications for his description as "father of science....
12: ...tury]] some authorities challenged the reality of Galileo's experiments, in particular the distinguished Fr...
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- History of philosophy (13862 bytes)
7: ...verything from [[Post-Medieval]] through the specific period of the early [[20th century]].
12: ...g the most important were [[Heraclitus]] ("All is fire", all is [[chao]]tic and transitory), [[Anaxago...
14: ...ssing popular philosophical questions. The theory fills in the blanks by saying that the Sophists' stu...
16: ...terchangeably, was destroying the piety and moral fiber of the city.
20: ...hilosopher kings. In the later dialogues Socrates figures less prominently, and the Theory of Forms is... - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
1: ...21) Oil on canvas 199 x 162 cm Galleria degli [[Uffizi]], Florence]]
3: ... Arte del Disegno]] in Florence. She was also the first female artist to paint history and religious p...
7: ...was born in [[Rome]], on [[July 8]] [[1593]], the first child of the painter [[Orazio Gentileschi]], o...
10: The first work of the young 17-years old Artemisia (even...
14: ... using a device made of thongs wrapped around the fingers and tighted by degrees — a particularl... - Scientific revolution (17675 bytes)
1: ...some claiming that the proper start of the scientific revolution was the publication of ''De revolutio...
3: ... seventeenth century was a period of major scientific change. But at that time the word "[[science]]" ...
7: ...o the nature and even the existence of the scientific revolution. To some extent this arises from diff...
9: ...ervers, it seems entirely clear that ''a'' scientific revolution took place around the year [[1600]]. ...
11: ... may be summarized in the following lists of significant advances in science: - Timeline of invention (28171 bytes)
3: ...re is ambiguity, the date of the first practical, fielded version of the invention is used here.
8: * 1 MYA: Controlled [[fire]] in [[Cradle of Humankind|Africa]]
26: * [[Cloth]] woven from [[flax]] fiber
82: * [[673]]: [[Greek fire]]: [[Kallinikos]]
84: * [[852]]: [[Parachute]]: [[Armen Firman]] - Astronomy (13970 bytes)
5: ...quite different; astronomers embrace the [[scientific method]], while astrologers do not.
10: ...Theoretical astrophysics is concerned mainly with figuring out the observational implications of diffe...
12: The fields of study can also be categorized in other way...
17: ...jects in the sky and their changes of position. Defines the system of coordinates used and the [[kinem...
62: ...e lens is produced by the cluster's gravitational field that bends light to magnify and distort the im... - Asteroid (24334 bytes)
3: == Definition ==
4: ...1E&db_key=AST&high=41e14f475d05983 scientific paper] to use the word in its title was publishe...
6: The exact definition of an asteroid is unsettled. The term "mino...
8: ...assify asteroids is in terms of size. A working definition is that asteroids are larger than 50 m in d...
10: ...y objects that include asteroids. The term '''artificial asteroid''' is sometimes used to designate ma... - Comet (30542 bytes)
9: ...the solar wind than dust is, and follows magnetic field lines rather than an orbital trajectory. Whil...
21: Comets are classified according to their orbital periods. ''Short per...
33: Until [[1994]], comets were first given a provisional designation consisting of ...
35: ...}} So Halley's Comet, the first comet to be identified as periodic, has the systemic designation 1P/16...
43: ...planets, on the grounds that while the planets confined their motion to the circle of the [[Zodiac]], ... - History of science (41710 bytes)
2: ...estigating the [[universe]] known as the [[scientific method]]. The '''history of science''' traces th...
4: ...al that older inquiries are known as ''pre-scientific''. Still, many place ancient [[natural philosoph...
6: ...e, notably [[ethics]]. In practice, each of these fields is heavily used by the others as an external ...
11: ...owledge, and to de-emphasize the view that scientific data is self-evident, value-free, and context-fr...
13: ...; and [[Paul Feyerabend]], who argued that scientific knowledge is not cumulative or progressive, and ... - Meteorology (19082 bytes)
3: '''Meteorology''' is the scientific [[science|study]] of the [[Earth's atmosphere|at...
12: ...endence of [[atmospheric pressure]] on height was first shown by [[Blaise Pascal]] and [[Ren頄escarte...
14: ...r conditions on a daily basis, and was one of the first Americans to forecast the weather on a daily b...
16: ...ation of the Earth affects airflow was partial at first. Late in the 19th century the full extent of t...
18: ...eather observations were still hindered by the difficulty of establishing certain weather characterist... - Timeline of microscope technology (1673 bytes)
6: * [[1609]] - [[Galileo Galilei]] develops an ''occhiolino'' or compound ...
7: * [[1612]] - Galileo presents ''occhiolino'' to [[Poland|Polish]] king...
10: * [[1624]] - Galileo presents his ''occhiolino'' to Prince Federico Ce...
14: * [[1931]] - [[Ernst Ruska]] builds the first [[electron microscope]]. - List of inventors (14020 bytes)
73: ..., (1854-1932), [[United States|USA]] — roll film
83: *[[Adolf Eugen Fick]], (1829-1901) — [[contact lens]]
93: *[[Galileo Galilei]], (1564-1642), [[Italy]] — [[therm...
137: ...ited States|USA]] — [[Polaroid]] polarizing filters and the [[Land Camera]]
139: *[[Irving Langmuir]], (1851-1957), gas filled incandescent lamp, hydrogen welding - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
2: ...]. The work of Galileo is considered to be a significant break from that of [[Aristotle]]. In additio...
5: Galileo was born in [[Pisa]], [[Italy]], as the son of [[...
7: ...rsity of Pisa]], but was forced to "drop out" for financial reasons. However, he was offered a positio...
10: ...losophy]] or religion. These are the primary justifications for his description as "father of science....
12: ...tury]] some authorities challenged the reality of Galileo's experiments, in particular the distinguished Fr... - Isaac Newton (23339 bytes)
4: ...le]]s (see [[wave-particle duality]]). He was the first to realise that the spectrum of [[color|colour...
6: ...rvation of [[momentum]] and [[angular momentum]]. Finally, he studied the speed of sound in air, and v...
14: ...her also said that his body at that time can even fit inside a quart mug. His father had died three mo...
23: ...s [[Ren頄escartes|Descartes]], [[Galileo Galilei|Galileo]], [[Nicolaus Copernicus|Copernicus]] and [[Johan...
25: ...;Sir Isaac Newton walking in his gardens, had the first thought of his system of gravitation, upon see... - Johannes Kepler (17038 bytes)
2: ...arl Sagan]] also refers to him as the last scientific [[astrologer]].
4: ...]]. Kepler's career also coincided with that of [[Galileo Galilei]].
15: ... of the T?n faculty. However, before he took his final exams he was recommended for the vacant post o...
23: ...ograph on the origins of [[snow|snowflakes]], the first known work on the subject. He correctly theori...
25: ...ed. He initially rejected this idea, but later confirmed it on [[May 15]] of the same year. - List of Renaissance figures (6600 bytes)
13: ...*[[Lorenzo de' Medici]] (a.k.a. ''Lorenzo il Magnifico'')
23: ...[[Catherine Jagellonica of Poland]] (duchess of [[Finland]], queen of [[Sweden]])
45: ==Religious figures==
127: * [[Filippo Brunelleschi]]
137: * [[Rosso Fiorentino]] - Microscope (8708 bytes)
3: The most common type of microscope—and the first to be invented—is the '''optical microsc...
8: ... is a microscope that uses only one lens for magnification. [[Anton van Leeuwenhoek|Van Leeuwenhoek]]'...
23: #fine adjustment knob
34: ...s a power of 100×. The actual power of magnification is the product of the powers of the ocular ...
42: ...g distance. A stereo microscope has a useful magnification up to 100×. The resolution is maximal... - Aristotle (37648 bytes)
10: ...tific importance. Plato can be called, with qualification, an [[idealism|idealist]] and a [[rationali...
12: ...lt, these works tend to be eclectic, dense and difficult to read. Among the most important ones are ''...
14: Aristotle is known for being one of the few figures in history who studied almost every subject ...
19: ...ater hidden to avoid confiscation or destruction; finally, the manuscripts were rediscovered in [[70 B...
27: ...he early modern period, such as [[Galileo Galilei|Galileo]] and [[Ren頄escartes|Descartes]]. - Venus (planet) (31010 bytes)
9: ... the planet as the ''Metal Star'', based on the [[Five Elements]].
14: ...se atmosphere, the temperature does not vary significantly between the night and day sides of Venus de...
18: ...se clouds is approximately −45°C. The official mean surface temperature of Venus, as given b...
27: ...nundate its surface with fresh lava. Other recent findings suggest that Venus is still volcanically ac...
29: .... This may be due to its slow rotation being insufficient to drive an internal [[dynamo]] of liquid ir... - Jupiter (24639 bytes)
134: | [[Hydrogen sulfide]]
138: '''Jupiter''' is the fifth [[planet]] from the [[Sun]] and by far the [[S...
140: ...o the planet as the ''Wood Star'', based on the [[Five Elements]].
145: ...warf]], although the latter possesses rather specific spectral lines, but in any case it would need to...
149: ...eliocentric theory of the motions of the planets; Galileo's outspoken support of the Copernican theory got ... - Saturn (planet) (23300 bytes)
48: | 49 confirmed<!--- S/2004 S 6 unconfirmed --->
140: ...anets less dense than water, with an average specific density of 0.69. This is only an average value, ...
142: ...tional compression), but this alone may not be sufficient to explain Saturn's heat production. An addi...
157: ...[[1613]] they reappeared again, further confusing Galileo.
159: ...ope much more powerful than the ones available to Galileo in his time.
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