Picturing Objects in the Making: Scheiner, Galileo and the Discovery
... process of being established. The "referent function," therefore, must be supplemented by something else. The satellites of Jupiter were a new object in the sense that no one had seen them before, but they were not acompletely new kindofobject because they could be potentially labeled as "errand sta ...
... process of being established. The "referent function," therefore, must be supplemented by something else. The satellites of Jupiter were a new object in the sense that no one had seen them before, but they were not acompletely new kindofobject because they could be potentially labeled as "errand sta ...
galileo and the discovery of the phases of venus
... Westfall’s view the “dishonesty thesis”.2 According to the dishonesty thesis, it was the following chain of events that led to the discovery of Venus’s phases. The prediction of the existence of Venus’s phases was made by Castelli in a letter presumably received by Galileo on 11 December 1610. Caste ...
... Westfall’s view the “dishonesty thesis”.2 According to the dishonesty thesis, it was the following chain of events that led to the discovery of Venus’s phases. The prediction of the existence of Venus’s phases was made by Castelli in a letter presumably received by Galileo on 11 December 1610. Caste ...
The Legacy of Galileo - Keck Institute for Space Studies
... should be bound to confess your opinion to be true.”7 This was the point, the philosopher and the theologian would have not agreed to change their views based on the experiment if the experimental evidence was against Aristotle’s teachings. The thinking of Galileo, like that of other great scientist ...
... should be bound to confess your opinion to be true.”7 This was the point, the philosopher and the theologian would have not agreed to change their views based on the experiment if the experimental evidence was against Aristotle’s teachings. The thinking of Galileo, like that of other great scientist ...
Galileo`s telescope - Exhibits on-line
... News of the invention spread rapidly throughout Europe, and already by April 1609 little telescopes about thirty centimetres long were to be found on sale, at the shops of spectacle-makers, in Paris and presumably in London. In Italy, the new instrument made its appearance at Milan in May of the sam ...
... News of the invention spread rapidly throughout Europe, and already by April 1609 little telescopes about thirty centimetres long were to be found on sale, at the shops of spectacle-makers, in Paris and presumably in London. In Italy, the new instrument made its appearance at Milan in May of the sam ...
LTBN_Script - Let There Be Night
... size? Now if we put my pictures into motion around the Sun, you might be able to see how I came up with the idea that Venus was orbiting the Sun and not the Earth as most people believed. Hypatia: I get it now. Moon phases stay the same size because our moon remains pretty much the same distance fro ...
... size? Now if we put my pictures into motion around the Sun, you might be able to see how I came up with the idea that Venus was orbiting the Sun and not the Earth as most people believed. Hypatia: I get it now. Moon phases stay the same size because our moon remains pretty much the same distance fro ...
2. Galileo Magnifico
... refractor that uses two small single lenses. Cardboard or PVC tubing makes a good, inexpensive telescope tube. One lens, the objective, is fixed at the far end of the telescope tube and collects and focuses incoming light; the other lens, the eyepiece, magnifies the image and is mounted in a smalle ...
... refractor that uses two small single lenses. Cardboard or PVC tubing makes a good, inexpensive telescope tube. One lens, the objective, is fixed at the far end of the telescope tube and collects and focuses incoming light; the other lens, the eyepiece, magnifies the image and is mounted in a smalle ...
Galileo`s Muse: Renaissance Mathematics and the Arts
... his early training was in the humanities. Galileo wrote elegant Latin, played the lute as well as any professional, developed an artistic taste so exquisite that the best painters of the period came to him for advice; his scientific career began only when he came upon Euclid, at about age twenty. Pe ...
... his early training was in the humanities. Galileo wrote elegant Latin, played the lute as well as any professional, developed an artistic taste so exquisite that the best painters of the period came to him for advice; his scientific career began only when he came upon Euclid, at about age twenty. Pe ...
Galileo`s Observation of Neptune 1612-1613
... In 1987, when I was a postdoc at Caltech, I visited the Caltech sister laboratory just up the road which was having an open day. That sister laboratory was the Jet propulsion Laboratory and a highlight of the visit for me was seeing the Galileo spacecraft being assembled in the huge clean rooms. The ...
... In 1987, when I was a postdoc at Caltech, I visited the Caltech sister laboratory just up the road which was having an open day. That sister laboratory was the Jet propulsion Laboratory and a highlight of the visit for me was seeing the Galileo spacecraft being assembled in the huge clean rooms. The ...
Galileo on Astronomical Realism and the Pragmatic Compromise
... of stars, opened the door to natural philosophy for astronomers. We can see, then, that the particular nature of the phenomena with which Galileo was working helped open the door for him to employ a new method of reasoning from observations to conclusions about the physical world; we must turn now t ...
... of stars, opened the door to natural philosophy for astronomers. We can see, then, that the particular nature of the phenomena with which Galileo was working helped open the door for him to employ a new method of reasoning from observations to conclusions about the physical world; we must turn now t ...
Galileo`s miraculous year: 1609 and the revolutionary telescope
... hours before they can be seen with the natural vision and to The Telescope distinguish the number and quality of the ships and to judge All this was made possible by a telescope of unprecedented their strength and be ready to chase them, to fight them, or to power and quality, fabricated by Galileo’s ...
... hours before they can be seen with the natural vision and to The Telescope distinguish the number and quality of the ships and to judge All this was made possible by a telescope of unprecedented their strength and be ready to chase them, to fight them, or to power and quality, fabricated by Galileo’s ...
objects in telescope are farther than they appear
... approximately 360 AU. So according to Galileo the stars we can see range from being hundreds to thousands of AU distant. This is pretty far -- Neptune lies approximately 30 AU from the Sun -- but today we know that stars are vastly more distant than Galileo figured. The nearest stars are almost 300, ...
... approximately 360 AU. So according to Galileo the stars we can see range from being hundreds to thousands of AU distant. This is pretty far -- Neptune lies approximately 30 AU from the Sun -- but today we know that stars are vastly more distant than Galileo figured. The nearest stars are almost 300, ...
Physics in the Renaissance Mark van den Bosch Index
... Catalogue and planetary using Tycho Brahe’s ...
... Catalogue and planetary using Tycho Brahe’s ...
The Naked Eye Stars as Data Supporting Galileo`s
... Galileo's ideas -- to say that the stars are not suns scattered through space -- requires explaining why it happens to be that N* increases with magnitude in a way so consistent with Galileo's ideas. ...
... Galileo's ideas -- to say that the stars are not suns scattered through space -- requires explaining why it happens to be that N* increases with magnitude in a way so consistent with Galileo's ideas. ...
Activities, In the Footsteps of Galileo
... Objective: Discover that the band of the Milky Way is primarily composed of an uncountable number of very faint stars. Activity: Pick one of the brighter sections of the Milky Way’s band and draw its star field as seen through the telescope. There may be too many stars to draw! Pick another area of ...
... Objective: Discover that the band of the Milky Way is primarily composed of an uncountable number of very faint stars. Activity: Pick one of the brighter sections of the Milky Way’s band and draw its star field as seen through the telescope. There may be too many stars to draw! Pick another area of ...
1 NOTES ON GALILEO Galileo was born in Pisa of the famous
... Chair of Mathematics at Padua near Venice at age 28. He remained at Padua for 18 years and there conducted his most important work. The Venetian Republic was a lively place at this time. Venice, a city of 150,000 people, consumed 40 million bottles of wine each year (about 270 bottles per person), a ...
... Chair of Mathematics at Padua near Venice at age 28. He remained at Padua for 18 years and there conducted his most important work. The Venetian Republic was a lively place at this time. Venice, a city of 150,000 people, consumed 40 million bottles of wine each year (about 270 bottles per person), a ...
Lecture 9 - Notes on Galileo
... Chair of Mathematics at Padua near Venice at age 28. He remained at Padua for 18 years and there conducted his most important work. The Venetian Republic was a lively place at this time. Venice, a city of 150,000 people, consumed 40 million bottles of wine each year (about 270 bottles per person), a ...
... Chair of Mathematics at Padua near Venice at age 28. He remained at Padua for 18 years and there conducted his most important work. The Venetian Republic was a lively place at this time. Venice, a city of 150,000 people, consumed 40 million bottles of wine each year (about 270 bottles per person), a ...
The production and updating of experimental results
... Galileo and the moons of Jupiter Late in 1609, Galileo constructed a powerful telescope and used it to look at the heavens. Many of the novel observations he made in the ensuing three months were controversial, and very relevant to the astronomical debate concerning the validity of the Copernican th ...
... Galileo and the moons of Jupiter Late in 1609, Galileo constructed a powerful telescope and used it to look at the heavens. Many of the novel observations he made in the ensuing three months were controversial, and very relevant to the astronomical debate concerning the validity of the Copernican th ...
GALILEO GALILEI - A Chronicle of Mathematical People by Robert A
... effectively in the study of the heavens. The son of an impoverished nobleman Vincenzo Galilei, well known for his musical studies, and his wife Giulia degli Ammannati, Galileo was born in Pisa, the first of six (perhaps seven) children. When he was six, the family moved to Florence. In 1581, Galileo ...
... effectively in the study of the heavens. The son of an impoverished nobleman Vincenzo Galilei, well known for his musical studies, and his wife Giulia degli Ammannati, Galileo was born in Pisa, the first of six (perhaps seven) children. When he was six, the family moved to Florence. In 1581, Galileo ...
History of astronomy
... Why were there no telescopes prior to 1600? Consider the following passage, from the Opus Majus of Roger Bacon (1267): “Greater things than these may be performed by refracted vision. For it is is easy to understand by the canons above mentioned that the greatest things may appear exceeding small, ...
... Why were there no telescopes prior to 1600? Consider the following passage, from the Opus Majus of Roger Bacon (1267): “Greater things than these may be performed by refracted vision. For it is is easy to understand by the canons above mentioned that the greatest things may appear exceeding small, ...
History of astronomy
... Why were there no telescopes prior to 1600? Consider the following passage, from the Opus Majus of Roger Bacon (1267): “Greater things than these may be performed by refracted vision. For it is is easy to understand by the canons above mentioned that the greatest things may appear exceeding small, ...
... Why were there no telescopes prior to 1600? Consider the following passage, from the Opus Majus of Roger Bacon (1267): “Greater things than these may be performed by refracted vision. For it is is easy to understand by the canons above mentioned that the greatest things may appear exceeding small, ...
Lec 11 Galileo I Tel..
... Galileo, Telescopes, and Authority: the mathematician who wanted to be a court philosopher *** Early Career *** Pisa (1581-85): studied Aristotelian physics; private tutor in practical mathematics (Ostilio Ricci and Nicolo Tartaglia) Florence (1585-89): unemployed. Pisa (1589-92): chair of mat ...
... Galileo, Telescopes, and Authority: the mathematician who wanted to be a court philosopher *** Early Career *** Pisa (1581-85): studied Aristotelian physics; private tutor in practical mathematics (Ostilio Ricci and Nicolo Tartaglia) Florence (1585-89): unemployed. Pisa (1589-92): chair of mat ...
Renaissance Astronomy
... Why were there no telescopes prior to 1600? Consider the following passage, from the Opus Majus of Roger Bacon (1267): “Greater things than these may be performed by refracted vision. For it is is easy to understand by the canons above mentioned that the greatest things may appear exceeding small, ...
... Why were there no telescopes prior to 1600? Consider the following passage, from the Opus Majus of Roger Bacon (1267): “Greater things than these may be performed by refracted vision. For it is is easy to understand by the canons above mentioned that the greatest things may appear exceeding small, ...
WhyIYA - DEP
... unchanging, perfect etc and the latter being changeable, imperfect and so on. Hence it was assumed that laws that were applicable to one realm would not apply to another and this cosmic divide lasted for centuries. This was held by the orthodoxy as an immutable dogmato be taken as faith. ...
... unchanging, perfect etc and the latter being changeable, imperfect and so on. Hence it was assumed that laws that were applicable to one realm would not apply to another and this cosmic divide lasted for centuries. This was held by the orthodoxy as an immutable dogmato be taken as faith. ...
galileo_pdf - Creation Concepts
... Galileo focused his early telescopes on Jupiter and announced his discovery of the four largest Jovian moons, to this day called the "Galilean moons" -- Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. There is evidence that some ancient peoples may have known of these moons: "In theory, Galileo's discovery could ...
... Galileo focused his early telescopes on Jupiter and announced his discovery of the four largest Jovian moons, to this day called the "Galilean moons" -- Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. There is evidence that some ancient peoples may have known of these moons: "In theory, Galileo's discovery could ...
Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei (Italian pronunciation: [ɡaliˈlɛːo ɡaliˈlɛːi]; 15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642), was an Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician who played a major role in the scientific revolution during the Renaissance. His achievements include improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations and support for heliocentrism. Galileo has been called the ""father of modern observational astronomy"", the ""father of modern physics"", and the ""father of modern science"".His contributions to observational astronomy include the telescopic confirmation of the phases of Venus, the discovery of the four largest satellites of Jupiter (named the Galilean moons in his honour), and the observation and analysis of sunspots. Galileo also worked in applied science and technology, inventing an improved military compass and other instruments.Galileo's championing of heliocentrism and Copernicanism was controversial within his lifetime, when most subscribed to either geocentrism or the Tychonic system. He met with opposition from astronomers, who doubted heliocentrism due to the absence of an observed stellar parallax. The matter was investigated by the Roman Inquisition in 1615, and they concluded that it could only be supported as a possibility, not as an established fact. Galileo later defended his views in Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, which appeared to attack Pope Urban VIII and thus alienated him and the Jesuits, who had both supported Galileo up until this point. He was tried by the Inquisition, found ""vehemently suspect of heresy"", forced to recant, and spent the rest of his life under house arrest. It was while Galileo was under house arrest that he wrote one of his finest works, Two New Sciences. Here he summarized the work he had done some forty years earlier, on the two sciences now called kinematics and strength of materials.