Renaissance+and+Reformation+Science


 * Galileo's Telescope || Sir Isaac Newton ||
 * [[image:Galileo's_Telescope.jpg width="353" height="485"]] || [[image:isaac_newton.jpg width="380" height="459"]] ||
 * This is a photograph of Galileo Galilei's telescope. Galileo was an astronomer, and this telescope was his design. Even though technogology has advanced in the field of telescopes, his was the first to get a view of the universe that was never seen before.

Galileo Galilei spent most of his time observing things, and then creating theories about what he observed. It is said that he observed Saturn's rings using his telescope. He didn't actually know what he was looking, but he was the first to see them. Christiaan Huygens was the one that actually got what he was looking out, but, you can't blame Galileo since all of this was out of human expierence. Most of his thoughts, however, were against the Church. So, he was tried in front of the inquisition, and was asked to reccant his thoughts. He knew he was right though, he just didn't want to die. || This painting is of Sir Isaac Newton, one in the greatest influences in Renaissance science. He was born in 1643 and died in 1727. It was said that his "genius" didn't come out until he was either hit by a schoolyard bully or a wayward apple.

His contributions to math and science were abudnt, and are still alive today. His first ever discovery was the "Binomal Theory", which won him a noble prize. He also invented "Differential and Integral Calculus" to prove his theories. His biggest discovery was his "Universal Gravitation" theory, which said that there is a force that pulls everything to earth, that force is gravity. He was one of the few people to actually search for truth about the universe, instead of listening to tradition. ||