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Who is the infamous astronomer born in 1564, said to have quoted, "Science must be liberated from Religion", however, was deeply religious?
What is Galileo
-Invented by Hans, a Dutch eyeglass maker
-Teenage assistant played with 2 eyeglasses to discover that you could see things closer through two pieces of glass
What is the telescope
-Transition from the Medieval Period to the Modern Period
What is 1453
The time of the period a pendulum takes to swing back to its original position once purely depends on the length of the string the weight hangs from
What is Law of the Pendulum
-7 Planets (Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Sun, Jupiter, Saturn)
-Crystal Spheres containing each planet
-Geocentricism -Unchanging perfection -The Earth and the planets are completely seperated
What is the Medieval Model of the Heavens
-Born 1473, Poland
-Father died in 1483, leaving ___ to his Uncle Lucas
-Suggests 3 things:
1. Heliocentricism, 2. The Universe is very huge, and 3. The Earth is indeed a planet, and one among many
What is Nicolaus Copernicus
-Invented to speed up construction with cranes, because ox-powered cranes took a very long time to work
What is the reverse gear
-1/3 of the population dies
-Richer people due to cheaper/more land
-Deeper religious devotion results
-Black Death
What is 1329-1400 (ish)
Unless acted upon by an external force, an object at rest remains at rest, or if in motion, it continues to move in a straight line with constant speed.
What is the Law of Inertia
-365 days, 6 hours
-11 minutes off each year (because of the fact that it was truly 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 46 seconds)
-Pope Leo sends letters against it due to symbolism of the holidays
What is Julian Calendars
-The finisher of the Dome of the Cathedral of Florence using fishtail brick layout and a crane
-Invents a reverse gear for his crane
What is Filippo Brunelleschi
-One of 3 Significant Factors of the Medieval Period's transition to the Modern Period
-Helped spread news quicker
-Decreased book prices
What is the Printing Press
-Competition for finishing the Dome of the Cathedral of Florence
What is 1418
-Method of measurement using angles of perspective against a fixed background
What is Parallax
-The two things Tycho Brahe observed that contradicted the Medieval Model of the Heavens
1. Heavens cannot be unchanging
2. There cannot be crystal spheres
What is 1. Supernova and 2. Comet
Explanation:
1. There was a star that had not been there before (unchanging)
2. The Comet went right through where the spheres would be (cannot be spheres)
-The Medieval spinner of the Universe and the Planets
What is Primo Mobile
T=2pi times the square root of l/g
What is the Mathematical Formula for the Law of the Pendulum
-Very bright star observed that contradicts the Medieval's view of the "unchanging" Heavens
-Observed by Tycho Brahe
What is 1572
-You can draw flat pictures that look 3d
-Effected the observations/study of science
What is the Theory of Linear Perspective
-Added to improve Ptolemy and Regiomontanus books by Nicolaus Copernicus
What is Trigonometry
-Born 1543, Denmark
-Kidnapped by Uncle Joragen after birth
-Fascinated by astronomy in childhood
-In 1572, observes a very bright star that contradicts the Medieval's view of the "unchanging Heavens"
What is Tycho Brahe
-Contributed to the defeat of Constantinople in 1453
-9 meters (30 ft) by 1 meter in diameter
-Could fire thousand pound stones over 1 mile
-The first discovery of the telescope by Hans, a Dutch eyeglass maker's teenage assistant
What is 1609
-The Earth is fixed
-The Bible often used to promote and prove this idea (i.e., "The Sun stands still in Gibeon")
What is Geocentricism
-"The Sun stands still in Gibeon" was a Bible passage that the Medievals used to prove the Earth was in the center and the sun orbited it--the sun could not be fixed, because according to the Bible passage, the sun had to be moving to stand still in Gibeon.
-Planets go one way, then the other, then back again in consecutive days
-Aristotle came up with Epicycles because of this, for is stood against the Medieval Model of the Heavens
What is Retrograde Motion