Renaissance+Scientists

There was three major scientists during the renascence Copernicus, Galileo, and Isaac Newton.
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 * Copernicus
 * Galileo
 * Isaac Newton


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C****opernicus**

Copernicus wrote a book which stated that he thought that the earth is not the center of the universe, contracted to popular belief. People thought stars where holes in a glass ball around the earth. He was like what if the earth is actually circling the sun. But the people who read his book didn't like this. People disliked the book so much they threatened to put the dude in jail but the old dude croaked to shortly after.




 * Galileo**

After Copernicus died another smart person was born and his name was Galileo Galilei. Galileo decided he was going to prove Copernicis’s theroy. In 1609 Galileo made a telescope to look at the universe and prove Copennicus’s therey. When he looked at the moon he saw mountains, valleys, and craters. Back then people thought that the moon was a perfict sphere.

Mecury and Venus pass through phases, just like the moon, this would prove that they orbate the sun. Also Galeleo found out that there are four moons that orbate Juipter. In figuring this proved Capernicus’s therey because moons were orbating around Jupiter, not earth.




 * Isaac Newton**

Newton invented calculas which was a new type of math and extrimly hard. Newton discovered prisims, invented a new telesope, and most importantly the laws of motion which are:

1. An object continues at rest or in motion in a straight line unless acted upon by another object or force.

2. The acceleration of an object is inversely proportional to its mass. In other words the heavier an object is, the more energy it will take to speed it up, or slow it down.

3. To every action there is an opposite and equal reaction. Or in other words if you push on something in outer space, it will push against you just as hard. If you throw something in outer space you will go the opposite direction.

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