He overturned Aristotle's ideas on motion and began to explain such complex concepts as force, inertia and acceleration. He built one of the first telescopes and used it to study the cosmos. What he saw through the lenses of his device removed Earth from the center of the universe and ...
you had another path of knowledge available: the authority of scripture or the ancients, especially Aristotle —“the Philosopher,” as he was commonly cited. Questions such as those about the nature of angels or whether the equator had a climate suitable for human habitation...
For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. It's easy to take these three laws for granted, yet scholars wrestled with the fundamental concepts of motion for centuries. The Greek philosopher Aristotle thought smoke moved upward because smoke was mostly air, and therefore was cons...
“I hold that the Sun is located at the center of the revolutions of the heavenly orbs and does not change place, and that the Earth rotates on itself and moves around it. Moreover … I confirm this view not only by refuting Ptolemy’s and Aristotle’s arguments, but also by producing...
About a century after Meton there was another Greek calendar scientist in the circle of Aristotle, named Callippus, who deduced that a 4x19 year sequence at 6940 days required subtracting one day, thus giving his name to the “Callippic Cycle,” which the Chinese had been calling a “bu”...
The Greek writings mainly describe another dramatic astronomical event of that year: ameteoritethe size of a "wagon-load" that fell in northern Greece. Aristotle wrote about the meteorite 100 years later; Pliny, writing five centuries after the event, did as well. ...
Following his “coming out” party as Sen. McCarthy’s chief counsel, Cohn continued his career as an attorney in New York. Among his clients over the years was a rogue’s gallery of nasty people: besides Trump, these included George Steinbrenner, Aristotle Onassis, mobsters Tony Salerno, Ca...
According to Porphyry (c. 300 AD), Callisthenes, the companion of Alexander the Great in the Persian wars, dispatched to his uncle, Aristotle, Babylonian records of eclipses that spanned 31,000 years. Iamblichus (4th century AD) claimed on the authority of the ancient Greek astrono...
http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/heavens.2.ii.html Go to the end of the book to find the circumference of the Earth: 400,000 stades, where 1 stade = 100m The Babylonians had been around for 2,000 years, and one way or another they had devised an 86400-second ...
Galileo Galilei was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher. Although Galileo is best known for his...