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1 giorno fa · Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642), commonly referred to as Galileo Galilei ( / ˌɡælɪˈleɪoʊ ˌɡælɪˈleɪ / GAL-il-AY-oh GAL-il-AY, US also / ˌɡælɪˈliːoʊ -/ GAL-il-EE-oh -, Italian: [ɡaliˈlɛːo ɡaliˈlɛːi]) or simply Galileo, was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath.
5 giorni fa · Galileo. In full: Galileo Galilei. Born: February 15, 1564, Pisa [Italy] Died: January 8, 1642, Arcetri, near Florence (aged 77) Inventions: Galilean telescope. hydrostatic balance. thermometer. compass. Notable Works: “Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems—Ptolemaic and Copernican” “The Sidereal Messenger” (Show more)
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- Galileo was a natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who made fundamental contributions to the sciences of motion, astronomy, and stren...
- Galileo invented an early type of thermometer. Although he did not invent the telescope, he made significant improvements to it that enabled astron...
- In 1610 Galileo discovered the four biggest moons of Jupiter (now called the Galilean moons) and the rings of Saturn.
- For his heresy in claiming that Earth orbits the Sun, Galileo was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Roman Catholic Church in 1633. He was not t...
- Galileo influenced scientists for decades to come, not least in his willingness to stand up to the church to defend his findings. His improvements...
2 giorni fa · Sir Isaac Newton FRS (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27 [a]) was an English polymath active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author who was described in his time as a natural philosopher. [7] He was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment that followed.
4 giorni fa · Isaac Newton, the brilliant physicist and mathematician, revolutionized our understanding of the universe with his laws of motion and universal gravitation, forever changing the course of scientific inquiry.
- Although Isaac Newton is well known for his discoveries in optics (white light composition) and mathematics (calculus), it is his formulation of th...
- After interrupted attendance at the grammar school in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England, Isaac Newton finally settled down to prepare for university,...
- Isaac Newton was born to a widowed mother (his father died three months prior) and was not expected to survive, being tiny and weak. Shortly therea...
- Isaac Newton is widely known for his published work Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687), commonly known as the Principia. His laws...
4 giorni fa · Galileo Galilei (* 15. Februar 1564 in Pisa; † 29. Dezember 1641 jul. / 8. Januar 1642 greg. in Arcetri bei Florenz) war ein italienischer Universalgelehrter, Physiker, Astrophysiker, Mathematiker, Ingenieur, Astronom, Philosoph und Kosmologe. Viele seiner Entdeckungen – vor allem in der Mechanik und der Astronomie – gelten als bahnbrechend.
1 giorno fa · Rembrandt painted The Militia Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq between 1640 and 1642, and it became his most famous work. This picture was called De Nachtwacht by the Dutch and The Night Watch by Sir Joshua Reynolds because by 1781 the picture was so dimmed and defaced that it was almost indistinguishable, and it looked quite like a night scene.
1 giorno fa · Acts and Ordinances of the Interregnum, 1642-1660. The full text of legislation passed into law during the Interregnum. Contains over 900 pieces of legislation. ranging from that concerning the trial and execution of William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury to the regulation of trade in currants, and from the propagation of the Gospel ...
