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Nicholas Copernicus

Nicholas Copernicus. Giordano Bruno. Galileo Galilee. Venus Phases. Moons on Jupiter. The Inquisition. Galileo Gets in because: Said he wouldn’t teach his beliefs about a heliocentric world Wrote a book that argued a heliocentric world makes more sense

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Nicholas Copernicus

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  1. NicholasCopernicus

  2. Giordano Bruno

  3. Galileo Galilee Venus Phases Moons on Jupiter

  4. The Inquisition

  5. Galileo Gets in because: • Said he wouldn’t teach his beliefs about a heliocentric world • Wrote a book that argued a heliocentric world makes more sense • Made Pope Urban VIII look like a fool • Interpreted certain bible verses to fit his sun centered world

  6. Galileo’s contribution to Science: Galileo went blind from studying sunspots on the sun with his telescope. • Made the telescope very powerful • Discovered that Earth has an attractive force that is equal for all objects (gravity) • Discovered “Friction” Pope John Paul recognizes the wrong doing of the Catholic Church and apologized for the action against Galileo in 1992

  7. Isaac Newton • Born on the day that Galileo died • Had a rough childhood • Went to University of Cambridge in England • Studied Philosophy (science)

  8. Isaac Newton • Wrote “Principia” at the age of 24. • This book explained how the entire universe moves! ( ex: phet website) • Became well known and taught at U of Cambridge • Not a very good teacher – mostly did research on

  9. Isaac Newton • Studies light – discovered white light was made of collection of other colors • Built a new telescope using mirrors that was much smaller and much more powerful than Galileo’s. • Very religious and obsessed with the bible

  10. Albert Einstein • Grew up in Germany • Studied Physics & Math • Wanted to be a high school teacher… couldn’t find a job • Became patent office worker • In 1905 wrote a 3 page paper on relativity

  11. Time Dilation If the speed of light is constant – time is not constant • http://www.kcvs.ca/site/projects/specialRelativity.html

  12. Albert Einstein • His published paper caught the attention of the most famous physicist of the day, Max Plank • Einstein becomes well known • In 1916 writes another paper on “General Relativity”. Becomes very famous as this paper explained what Isaac Newton could not.

  13. General Relativity • Space and time are one of the same • Space is a fabric that bends due to masses • Gravity is just the result of the bending of this fabric

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