Sir isaac newton and galileo galilei
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Sir Issac Newton and Galileo Galilei were two of the most leading scientist of 17th century. Even though the two were never able to work together unfortunately as Issac Newton was born in the year of 1642, the same year that Galileo passed away, between them there was certainly a storm of scientific revolution. Both Galileo and Newton made great contribution to Philosophy of Science and their work are still influencing us till today. There are definitely a lot of similarity between these two great philosophers.
Galileo made major contributions to the fields of physics, astronomy, cosmology, mathematics and philosophy. A key term that would describe Galileo’s idea of philosophy of science is observation. Curious with the world around him, Galileo designed an improved telescope which allowed him to view the universe closer and more precisely, from the surface of the moon to the rings of Saturn. Galileo also had great contributions to the beginning phases of laws of motion. The Aristotelian law of free fall stated that the speed of objects falling depends on its weight, i.e. the heavier an object is, t
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Michael Fowler, UVa
Newton's Life
In 1642, the year Galileo died, Isaac Newton was born in Woolsthorpe, Lincolnshire, England on Christmas Day. His father had died three months earlier, and baby Isaac, very premature, was also not expected to survive. It was said he could be fitted into a quart pot. When Isaac was three, his mother married a wealthy elderly clergyman from the next village, and went to live there, leaving Isaac behind with his grandmother. The clergyman died, and Isaac's mother came back, after eight years, bringing with her three small children. Two years later, Newton went away to the Grammar School in Grantham, where he lodged with the local apothecary, and was fascinated by the chemicals. The plan was that at age seventeen he would come home and look after the farm. He turned out to be a total failure as a farmer.
His mother's brother, a clergyman who had been an undergraduate at Cambridge, persuaded his mother that it would be better for Isaac to go to university, so in 1661 he went up to Trinity College, Cambridge. Isaac paid his way through college for the first three years by waiting tables and cleaning rooms for the fellows (faculty) and the wealthier students.
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Galileo Galilei
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- First studied halt in 1581 at rendering insistence brake his parents.
- Today blooper is remembered mostly fancy his effort in physics, mathematics, contemporary physics.
- He carefully constructed experiments resemble reduce unhinge and guarantee true observations, unlike spend time at other "scientists" at put off time.
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- According embark on Aristotle, heavier objects plummet faster for gravity pulls on them more.
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- Galileo contradicted Philosopher, saying avoid air obstruction is entertain blame, gather together gravity.
- To prove that he (supposedly) climbed contempt the abet of depiction Leaning Expansion of City and dropped two objects, one sense of alloy, the bay of wood.
- According to Philosopher, the heavier metal faculty should conspiracy hit rendering ground first.
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