Renaissance+and+Reformation+Science

Copernicus ignited the scientific revolution and created a serious rift between science and religion.The Copernican system explains many phenomena:the brightness of stars varies because hey are different distances from Earth, and the motions of both stars and retrograde planets are llusionscaused by the Earth's own otation Copernicus described the moon's orbit around the Earth, the order of the six known planets from the sun, and the precession of the equinoxes.He did preserve the significantly mistaken idea of uniform circular orbits, however; in the first of his three laws of planetary motion. He was a very well known scientist. || Sir Isaac Newton was a British scientist that supported the theory that the heavens and the Earth were part of one cohesive solar system with the sun at its center, the heliocentric view of the universe. Although his theroy was rejected by the church, he still kept his theory going. With his additional formulation of the three laws of mechanics and the concept of gravity, he pioneered the science of physics, ultimately demonstrating that mathematics can explain both matter and motion. || Galileo was an Italian mathematician, astronomer, and physicist. He developed the astronomical telescope and was the first to see sunspots, the four main satellites of Jupiter, and the appearance of Venus going through phases, and he proved it was orbiting the Sun. He discovered that "freely falling bodies", heavy or light, have the same, constant acceleration and that this acceleration is due to gravity. He also determined that a body moving on a perfectly smooth horizontal surface would neither speed up or slow down. He invented a thermometer, which is a device designed to measure temperatures. A hydrostatic balance, which is a compression due to gravity is balanced by a pressure gradient which creates a pressure gradient force in the opposite direction. And a compass, which is a navigational instrument for finding directions. He also discovered that the path of a projectile is a parabola.
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