Jean Sylvain Bailly Jean Sylvain Bailly was born on 15 September, 1736 in Paris, France. His father was a painter at the louvre and Bailly originally intended to follow, until the works of Nicolas de Lacaille attracted him to science according to www.biographybase.com. He is best known for being an astronomer, the president of the third estate, and the first mayor of Paris. He was killed by way of guillotine on November 12, 1793. Jean Sylvain Bailly was famous for his advances in the sciences. Some of his accomplishments include the computation of an orbit for Halley's Comet and also studied the four satellites of Jupiter that were known at the time according to www.britannica.com. He was elected to the Academy of Science in 1763. In 1784,
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Charles De Gaulle, born November 22, 1890 in Lillie, France by Henri and Jeanne Maillot De Gaulle. He was a career soldier in French Army he was held prisoner during World War I .He was also the
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...ostly remembered for his eccentric lifestyle. His prosthetic nose made of precious metals is a familiar tale. The story of his pet moose lives on, even though the moose did not. His ignominious death is almost common knowledge. Even as far as his astronomical work is concerned, outside of the scientific community, he is perhaps best-known for his geoheliocentric universe, which was later so strongly disproven by his own assistant.
This was the beginning of many awards in his experiments to come. He was elected to the Royal Society on May 29, 1756. This is probably one of the most influential factors in his work and this is one way that his work was seen by people all over Europe and other parts of the world. Members of the Royal Society had their scientific works published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. (DOSB,129)
Iveth Spaulding was born on June 4, 1982, in Bogota, Colombia. She is the youngest of two sisters born to a happy, loving couple. Iveth’s mother, Dora Martinez, always made her two daughters her top priority; she wanted them to feel loved and appreciated. Therefore, she was always very caring, loving, and affectionate with them. For example, she would tuck them in every night and stay with them until they fell asleep, and every afternoon Dora would have a plate of food ready for her daughters to eat once they got home from school. It was the little things that her mother did that made Iveth feel loved and appreciated. As a result, at age fifteen when Iveth had her first daughter, she too made her a priority, and she also wanted her to feel
Dmitri Mendeleev was one of the most famous modern-day scientists of all time who contributed greatly to the world’s fields of science, technology, and politics. He helped modernize the world and set it farther ahead into the future. Mendeleev also made studying chemistry easier, by creating a table with the elements and the atomic weights of them put in order by their properties.
... Royal Society. He discovered numerous things about matters such as light and gravity, and in 1703 was elected as president of the Royal Society.
Philippe Petit changed numerous peoples’ thoughts about the Twin Towers when he performed his high wire walk between them in 1974. Before Philippe Petit walked the high wire between the Twin Towers in 1974, people weren’t certain how they felt about the construction of the World Trade Center. After Philippe performed, people began to warm up to the idea of the towers. Philippe Petit walked the high wire between the Twin Towers on August 7, 1974. This event prompted Andrew McMahon to write the song “Platform Fire” about this event for his band, Jack’s Mannequin. This song was not a hit for the band; however, fans of Jack’s Mannequin seem to have a special place in their heart for it.
Gaspard Monge, also known as Count de Péluse, was born on Monday, the 9th of May, 1746 in Beaune, Bourgogne, France. He was the son of Jacques Monge and Jeanne Rousseaux. During his childhood his father was a small merchant. Later in 1777 Monge was wed to Cathérine Huart. Gaspard died on Tuesday, the 28th of July in the year 1818 in Paris, France. Monge majored in the fields of mathematics, engineering, and education. During his 72 years of life Monge created descriptive geometry and also laid the groundwork for the development of analytical geometry. Today both descriptive geometry and analytical geometry have become parts of projective geometry.
Creating a new field of science by the time he was thirty, Sir Humphry Davy began influencing our world at an early age, changing and expanding the realm of science. He is considered to be one of the finest scientists Great Britain has ever produced. Davy has accomplished a vast variety of awards and discoveries, including earning a Copley Medal and being knighted in 1812; as well as being known for his work with alkali and alkaline earth metals, and making discoveries with other elements such as chlorine and iodine.
He was one of the first who created the "looker" (now called telescope) by placing two pieces of lenses together. The discovery that placing lenses together can magnify images was made by children who took Lippershey's spectacles and looked at a distant church tower. One of the most influential scientists associated with the telescope has to be Galileo. He took the design and reinvented the telescope into one of the first refractive telescopes we use to this day. Galileo used this great invention to report astronomical facts such as the moon is covered with craters instead of being smooth, the Milky Way is composed of millions of stars, and Jupiter has four moons.
...st important scientists in history. It is said that they both shaped the sciences and mathematics that we use and study today. Euclid’s postulates and Archimedes’ calculus are both important fundamentals and tools in mathematics, while discoveries, such Archimedes’ method of using water to measure the volume of an irregularly shaped object, helped shaped all of today’s physics and scientific principles. It is for these reasons that they are remembered for their contributions to the world of mathematics and sciences today, and will continue to be remembered for years to come.
Another important individual who drove history was the Italian astronomer and scientist Galileo Galilei. Galileo discovered something so important that it changed the selfish perspective that humans were the center of the universe and led to the growth of human knowledge. Utilizing mathematics and a telescope he had developed, Galileo observed that the planets revolved around the sun and not the Earth. This was a significant discovery because not only did it contradict what the church had taught, it also showed that the universe was not what it seemed. With this truth uncovered, many people began to fascinate over the universe. This triggered people to begin studying space extensively and eventually lead to present day space exploration. Galileo also left a lasting impression upon many great minds, such as Sir Isaac Newton, who used Galileo's research and theories to further his own studies such as the physical laws, and their properties.
Over the years, there have been many more important figures in astronomy. One extraordinary astronomer was Galileo Galilei, who invented the first refractor telescope in which light is bent to enlarge an image of the sky (“Galileo Project”). The next great astronomer to follow him was Isaac Newton. Newton had made a great amount of contributions to astronomy during his life. He further proved that the Earth was not the center of the universe and he also invented the Newtonian reflector telescope which is still used today in observatories.