Renaissance Epoch
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Tycho BraheNicolas CopernicusLeonardo DaVinciGalileo GalileiJohan KeplerSimon Marius
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The Earth Scientist, Volume XXVI, Issue 1, Spring 2010
This very special issue of The Earth Scientist (our biggest ever!) is sponsored by the Cooperative Institute for Climate and Ocean Research at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and is focused on the world’s oceans....more
Tycho Brahe
Tycho Brahe was a Danish astronomer who lived between 1546-1601. For over twenty years, he made very accurate observations of the night sky, all without the aid of a telescope, which had not yet been...more
Nicholas Copernicus
Nicholas Copernicus was a Polish astronomer who lived between 1473-1543. Before his time, people believed in the Ptolemaic model of the solar system, which maintained that the Earth was the center of...more
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian artist and scientist who lived between 1452-1519. Leonardo was the original Renaissance man, whose roles included inventor, engineer, architect, mathematician, geologist,...more
Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei was an Italian astronomer and physicist who lived between 1564-1642. He challenged Aristotle's proposition that heavenly bodies were divine and therefore perfect and blemish-free. Galileo...more
Johan Kepler
Johan Kepler was a German astronomer who lived between 1571-1630. He introduced three important laws of planetary motion and helped the Copernican model of the solar system gain general acceptance. Kepler...more
Henrietta Swan Leavitt
Henrietta Swan Leavitt was born in Massachusetts in 1868. She became interested in astronomy in college. Unfortunately, she got sick after her graduation from college. She did recover from her sickness,...more
Archimedes
Archimedes was a Greek mathematician and engineer who lived between 287-212 B.C. His greatest contributions are in the field of geometry and in the development of war machines. Legend has it that Archimedes...moreShop Windows to the Universe
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