Renaissance+Science

Galileo was the greatest scientist of the Renaissance period. He created the telescope, which allowed people to see things in the sky they could never before see. He also proved Copernicus's theory that the earth revolves around the sun by looking at the sky with a telescope.The church rejected Galileo's findings and made him recant. He then could not share his great ideas with the world anymore. || This is an image of the magnetic compass. The magnetic compass worked because earth has a magnetic pull. The compass was a major part of exploration because explorers now knew what direction they were going while they were sailing. For example, Columbus knew to travel west to cross the Atlantic, and now he knew if his vessels were sailing in the correct direction and he wouldn't become completely lost. Explorers could now be much more accurate in judging which direction they are going in. || Nicolas Copernicus was a polish astronomer who lived in the 15th and 16th centuries. He was the one who started the Heliocentric universe theory. Copernicus first alerted the world about his theory in "Commentariolus," published somewhere between 1510 and1514. He later went over his theory in greater detail in " De revolutionibus orbium coelestium//,"// finished in 1530. ||
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