During the year 1600 CE, a man impri/soned in Rome by the name of Giordano Bruno was tried and found guilty of heresy by the Roman Inquisition. Pope Clement VIII deemed Bruno to be an “impenitent and pertinacious heretic” and he sentenced Bruno to be burned alive at the stake for his crimes. Bruno was a free thinker and spoke almost as freely about those thoughts. His crime was to be in support of the Copernican heliocentrism theory of the earth orbiting the sun (Copernicus’ findings were not
His name is Evangelista Torricelli, an Italian scientist and mathematician. In 1643, he invented perhaps one of the most important devices in predicting weather: the barometer. This instrument measures atmospheric pressure, and is used in forecasting the weather and determining altitude. In general, when the barometer falls in response to a drop in pressure, bad weather is approaching; when the barometer rises because of an increase in pressure, good weather will follow. Torricelli was born on
Money can give people a lot opportunities and privilege. Financially privileged people have no trouble getting materialistic things such as big houses, expensive cars, and jewelry. Being privileged can also provide better scholastic education as well as respect. On the other hand, a lack of money, as a person might guess, limits opportunity and lower a person’s status on the privilege pole. In order for an underprivileged person to have all of those things, they have to work hard to get to get the
Mathematical Contributions of Blaise Pascal Introduction Blaise Pascal was born on June 19, 1623 in Clermont Ferrand. His nationality was french. He died in 1662. He was credited for his imaginative and subtle work in geometry and other branches of mathematics. His work influenced later generations of theologians and philosophers, helping make mathematics what it is today. Blaise Pascal is considered part of the foundation of the very heart of mathematics.
Page 2:Copernicus Challenges Ptolemy Ptolemy, was a greek astronomer, thinker, rationalist, and geographer. His ideas about the planets were that the earth was the center of the universe and that the sun and other planets orbited the earth. His thoughts were accepted for 1,400 years. Copernicus challenged Ptolemy’s theories. After Copernicus studied the movements of the planets, he tried to find a different explanation for how the planets move. He came to the conclusion that the planets orbit the
before. There are six main categories of technology: transportation, science and math, construction, manufacture, communication and other technologies. The first category of technology is transportation. The Steam Engine was invented by Thomas Torricelli in 1698. The Hot Air Balloon was invented in 1783 by the Montgolfier brothers. The Steamboat was invented in 1791 by John Fitch. The Electric motor was invented in 1821 by Michael Faraday. A very important invention was the Gasoline Engine in 1859
The Renaissance era is one of the most important events in human recorded history. It paved a way for not only modern art, but advanced sciences, and impacted modern thinking in various subjects like philosophy, and theology. The humans during this enlightenment era are still considered some of the most influential people of all time. During and after the Bubonic plague humans where discovering ways to treat and study the body. Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) made a book with detailed pictures, it’s
This device was consequential to mechanical philosophy because it was an attempt by Boyle to explain the underlying nature of the vacuum. Boyle was attempting to understand and reproduce the results of a Torticillian vacuum. In 1643, Evangelista Torricelli found an empty space in a sealed glass tube above the mercury in his newly invented barometer. Philosophers across Europe tried to devise ways of establishing the properties of a ‘Tortecellian vacuum'. To investigate this new and conspicuously
The history of technology begins two and a half million years ago with the stone age. Flint was split and sharpened to be used as a tool. Within a hundreds of thousands of years these stone tools became specialized for boring, scraping, cutting and sharp points. Five hundred thousand years ago in China, man discovers fire. The Neolithic period 8000BC of the Stone age brought about many new technologies. These technologies are pottery, textiles, bricks made in Jericho made of clay or mud and
Blaise Pascal was many things, a physicist, an inventor, a writer, and even a Christian philosopher, but the one thing that most remember him by is a mathematician. Pascal was a very successful man, but in order to fully understand how his success came about, one must go back to his beginning. Pascal was born in Clermont-Ferrand, France, June 19, 1623, and died August 19, 1662 in Paris, France. He was the third child, and the only child to Etienne and Antoinette Pascal. He was extremely close to
Water hydraulics is not new in the evolution of technology. The world’s first scientist, in The Greek Thales motivates further research on water when he declared water is a substance rather than a mystic gift from the gods. After that Aristotle declared water a continuum which all of hydraulics is based on the fact what happens at point A is transmitted to point B. Start from the era, many devices based on practical expressions of the hydraulic principles had been made by Ktesibios which comes from