Thursday, 29 April 2010
Copernicus
Copernicus was born in Poland, and was a perfectionist. He worked alone and didn't have the help of telescopes or computers to guide him alone his studies. All he had to work with was his eyes. His two major theories were that: The earth orbited the sun once a year, and the earth spun on its axis once daily. This completely contradicted everything that everyone had previously believed. Copernicus and Aristotle's views were complete opposites, and people weren't sure who to believe. It was very hard to believe Copernicus' theory, and many people didn't want to. People liked to believe that the Earth was the center of everything. Copernicus led the way for many other scientists after him who finally touched up and proved his theory to be correct, with the help of mathematics.
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he was one of the forst scientists to beleive that the sun was the center of the universe not the earth. he may have influenced all scientists that came after him
ReplyDeleteTrue, and I think it's important to point out that all of these influential figures used information from past researchers to help prove their same belief. For Copernicus, he was one of the first with the Heliocentric theory, which he obtained from Aristotle who was from around 350 B.C.
ReplyDeleteGalileo was ahead of his time, and he was a very smart person. It's cool that he was the first guy to use a telescope for that reason. It would be interesting to see if he never existed. His observations literally led us into modern astronomy. I like his observation of Venus how it would get smaller, well because it was moving farther away, so it then could move around the sun.
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