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19 Chinese astronomers observed a supernova, which was identified as the Crab Nebula in 1731. Some of the most advanced technolo ...
20 B orn in a Greek colony in Asia Minor, Thales of Miletus is often viewed as the founder of Western philosophy, but he was als ...
21 T he nature of matter concerned many ancient Greek thinkers. Having seen liquid water, solid ice, and gaseous mist, Thales of ...
22 T he Greek astronomer and mathematician Eratosthenes is best remembered as the first person to measure the size of Earth, but ...
23 A Persian scholar born in Baghdad in 1201, during the Golden Age of Islam, Nazir al-Din al-Tusi was a poet, philosopher, math ...
24 A FLOATING OBJECT DISPLACES ITS OWN VOLUME IN LIQUID ARCHIMEDES (287–212 BCE) T he Roman author Vitruvius, writing in the 1st ...
25 See also: Nicolaus Copernicus 34–39 ■ Isaac Newton 62–69 THE BEGINNING OF SCIENCE in any way. He went to the public baths in ...
26 THE SUN IS LIKE FIRE, THE MOON IS LIKE WATER ZHANG HENG (78–139 CE) I n about 140 BCE, the Greek astronomer Hipparchus, proba ...
27 See also: Nicolaus Copernicus 34–39 ■ Johannes Kepler 40–41 ■ Isaac Newton 62–69 THE BEGINNING OF SCIENCE with Earth at its c ...
28 LIGHT TRAVELS IN STRAIGHT LINES INTO OUR EYES ALHAZEN (c.965–1040) T he Arab astronomer and mathematician Alhazen, who lived ...
THE BEGINNING OF SCIENCE 29 Greek scholars Euclid and, later, Ptolemy believed that vision derived from “rays” that beamed out o ...
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32 T he Islamic Golden Age was a great flowering of the sciences and arts that began in the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate, Ba ...
33 for the speed of light. Rømer’s compatriot, Bishop Nicolas Steno, was sceptical of much ancient wisdom, and developed his own ...
AT THE CENTER OF EVERYTHING IS THE S UN NICOLAUS COPERNICUS (1473 –1543) ...
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36 NICOLAUS COPERNICUS T hroughout its early history, Western thought was shaped by an idea of the universe that placed Earth at ...
SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION 37 sub-orbits were carried around the Sun. This system was best refined by the great Greco-Roman astronome ...
38 NICOLAUS COPERNICUS was not in motion. Yet, despite his demolition of the evidence for the Ptolemaic system, Oresme concluded ...
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