what did copernicus,galileo and newton have in common?
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They were all early scientists who had different theories on the solar system. Copernicus thought it to be heliocentric, revolving around the sun, and Galileo and Newton thought the universe was geocentric, revolving around earth.
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The first telescopes may have been Assyrian crystal lenses[1], but the Visby lenses tentatively suggest that the technology was known to the Arabs and Persians, then to the Vikings, in the 10th century. Leonard Digges is sometimes credited with the invention in England in the 1570s, but usually credit for assembling the first telescope is given to an unknown Dutch spectacle maker in about 1608. Some name that person as Hans Lippershey (c. 1570 – c. 1619), but Jacob Metius and Zacharias Jansen also claimed to have invented a telescope during the same period. Even if Lippershey did not make the first one, he publicized it. Galileo Galilei made his own telescope in 1609, calling it at first a "perspicillum," and then using the terms "telescopium" in Latin and "telescopio" in Italian (from which the English word derives). Galileo is generally credited with being the first to use a telescope for astronomical purposes. Galileo's telescope consisted of a convex object lens and a concave eye lens, which is universally called a Galilean telescope (used as a viewfinder in many simple cameras). Later, Johannes Kepler described the optics of lenses (see his books Astronomiae Pars Optica and Dioptrice), including a new kind of astronomical telescope with two convex lenses (a principle often called the Kepler telescope). Optical interferometer arrays and arrays of radio telescopes were developed much more recently. Telescopes have been around for a while.
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Newton's optics was based on light particles (photons). He could not have know about interference since no source of coherent light existed at the time for him to experiment with.
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Isaac Newton was the greatest English mathematician of his generation. \nHe laid the foundation for differential and integral calculus.\nHis work on optics and gravitation make him one of the greatest scientists the world has known\n\nI also feel he made a step towards the understanding the workings of Karma as one of his laws of physic states. \n-- For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. --\n\nIts all food for thought.
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The Copernican revolution suggested to some that the stars were in fact other suns at great distances away, with worlds of their own. An Englishman named Thomas Digges promoted this idea in a work published in 1573
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Try this for Galileo\n\nhttp://galileo.rice.edu/\n\nFor Cayley (not Carley) you can try this\n\nhttp://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biograph...\n\nAnd here is one link for Laplace and D'Alambert\n\nhttp://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~hist...\nhttp://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/D'Alembert.html
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Nicolaus Copernicus - Polish Astronomer \nGalileo Galilei - Italian Physicist\nJohannes Kepler - German Astronomer \nLord Kelvin (William Thomson) - British Physicist\n"I believe that the more throughly science is studied, the further does it take us from anything compariable to athesim"
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"In the week of January 7, 1610 Galileo discovered three of Jupiter's four largest satellites (moons): Io, Europa, and Callisto. He discovered Ganymede four nights later. "
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Galileo Galilei was an Italian physicist, astronomer, and philosopher.\n\nHe was born in February 15, 1564 and died January 8, 1642\n\nAt that time there were no such things as internets or mobile phones and the printing press (allowing mass production of articles on paper) wasn't around until another 200 or so years.\n\nGalileo's only method of communication at that times was word of mouth and communication on pieces of parchment that were delivered by messengers on horse-back.
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I think the truest indication of Newton's genius was his discovery (not exactly intuitive) that the same force that causes an object to fall to the ground was none other than the same force that keeps the moon and planets in their orbits.
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Newtonian Mechanics.\n\nI don't know why people are giving all the credits to Newton for Calculus, when in fact he and Liebniz merely collected all the works of previous mathematicians, combined it with their own works, and compiled it independently.
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Newton\nEinstein\nDarwin\nPasteur
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you are rght about aristotle as it was Pythagoras (you know the theorem) 570 BC who hypothesised the curvature of the earth and the heavenly bodies,later the most notable writers on the positioning and behaviour of the planets were copernicus, gallaleio, kepler and newton
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Isaac Newton. It would give him a big scare, considering he is most remembered for his laws of gravity.\nOh, and Christopher Columbus........."OMG!    It is flat!!!!"
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Galileo was put in prison for theorizing that the earth was Not the center of the universe, and that it revolved around the sun.\n\nWhile in prison he invented the telescope. How's that for prison reform?
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One is incorrect and the other is correct.  The heliocentric model (or Copernican model) places the sun as the center of the solar system, with the planets revolving around it, which is correct.  \n\nThe geocentric model place the earth as the center of the solar system, with the planets and the sun rotating around it.  This is incorrect.  \n\nIn the 17th Century, the astronomer Galileo was branded a heretic and excommunicated from the Church for "daring" to challenge the Vatican's misguided belief (derived from a literal reading of the Bible) that the geocentric model was correct.  Science ultimately vindicated Galileo as correct, and the Church only issued a formal retraction of the excommunication of Galileo in this century.
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I think Isaac Newton might have been as good, considering the limitations of his own time. Just remember he had to develop a new whole math to support his theories! (calculus) Then I dunno, but today Stephen Hawking? Have you read a brief history of time and the universe in a nutshell? I dunno, really, Einstein was GREAT!