COPÉRNICO, GALILEO, KEPLER Y NEWTON
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NICOLÁS COPÉRNICO
Nicolás Copérnico () nació en Thorn el 19 de febrero de y murió en Frauenburg el 24 de mayo de Astrónomo y canónigo polaco, se doctoró en Derecho Canónico en y fue un hombre versado en matemáticas, medicina y astronomía, fundamentalmente.
Revisó y criticó el sistema geocéntrico de Ptolomeo (La Tierra es el centro del universo) y formula su teoría heliocéntrica que coloca a la Tierra entre los planetas y al Sol como el centro del sistema, teoría que fue acremente combatida por católicos y luteranos.
Entre los siete axiomas de su Teoría se cuentan:1&#;. No existe un centro único de todos los orbes celestes. 2&#;.La Tierra es centro tan sólo del orbe lunar. 3&#;. Los planetas giran alrededor del Sol, que es centro del universo. 4&#;. La distancia Tierra-Sol es muy pequeña en comparación con la altura del firmamento. 5&#;. El movimiento del firmamento es consecuencia de la rotación terrestre. 6&#;. El movimiento aparente del Sol es consecuencia de los varios movimientos de la Tierra alrededor del Sol, y 7&#;. El movimiento retrógrado de los planetas se explica por el movimiento de
Sir Isaac Newton
At the age of 85, on 31st March , Sir Isaac Newton died. He was the first scientist to be given the honour of being buried at Westminster Abbey in London. Considered to be the father of physics, Newton was born in Lincolnshire in , coincidentally the same year that Galileo &#; the scientist who influenced him most &#; died.
Educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, Newton studied Galileo Galilee&#;s theories of motion. He went on to work at the University for 30 years as a Professor of Maths and while there, developed his own and Galileo’s theories further by applying them to laws of motion and gravity &#; the backbone of modern day physics.
Newton was also fascinated by light. He discovered that white light is made up of a range of colours, and went on to invent the first reflecting telescope; an instrument that could see tiny objects much more clearly than any telescope to date. It wasn’t just Galileo&#;s theories that fascinated Newton either. He was also passionate about the work of many others, including the French philosopher Descartes and the English chemist Robert Boyle. By learning as much as he could from his fellow scientists, he applied his own kno
Galileo Galilei, Albert Einstein and Sir Isaac Newton are each called the Father of Physics as they pioneered many laws in physics. Galileo Galilei was an Italian physicist, mathematician, and astronomer who contributed significantly in the laws of astronomy. Albert Einstein discovered the theory of relativity. Sir Isaac Newton discovered the laws of motion.
The contributions of all three- Galileo Galilei, Albery Einstein, and Isaac Newton - have been significant in the field of Physics. They have pioneered such laws in Physics on which the world is moving today.
Father of Physics: Key Highlights
The key highlights of the fathers of physics can be found in the table below:
Highlights | Galileo Galilei | Albert Einstein | Isaac Newton |
Birth Date | Feb 15, | Mar 14, | Jan 4, |
Early Education | Matriculated in from the University of Pisa | Matriculated in | Completed bachelor’s degree in |
Significant Discoveries | Invented the telescope and discovered the 4 largest moons of Jupiter | Propounded the quantum mechanics theory and discovered the theory of relativity. Received Nobel Prize in Physics in for discovery of photoelectric effect Galileo GalileiBefore we really start looking at dynamics (the study of forces) in depth, it would be wise to learn a little something about the two people that contributed the most to this branch of physics: Born in Pisa, Italy on February 15, , died in Arcetri, Italy, January 8,
Galileo showed that falling bodies do not have velocities proportional to their weights.
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