Did Galileo do anything major besides the telescope?
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he prove that the earth is revolving around te sun not sun revolvong around the earth...so this went against the church in the middle ages.. so he was exucted.  he used telescope to see the planets and moons that revolve around the sun and then..  he prove theat the sun revolv aund the sun..
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Leonardo da Vinci.  Not a scientist, per se, but he did explore scientific thought and was a remarkable engineer and inventor.  Fascinating guy.
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There are LOTS. Pauli Exclusion Principle. Newton's Laws. Kepler's Laws. Galileo had some principles that might be called laws. Thermodynamic laws. Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. Refraction Law. Ideal Gas Law. Boyle's Law. Charles Law. Biot-Savart Law. And so on and so forth. Hookie's law. \n\nStart researching.
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The name of the 16th Century Danish astronomer is "Tycho Brahe".  For more information on his check out this website;\nhttp://galileo.rice.edu/sci/brahe.html\nHope this helped answer your question.
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In a vacuum. -- One of the astronauts did this experiment on the moon with a feather and a hammer. They both hit the dirt at the same time, and he said "looks like Mr. Galileo was right". There is a film of it somewhere on one of NASA's websites.
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He didn't prove it.  \n\nCopernicus created a model that differed from the standard geocentric model of that time.  His model made predictions about planetary positions and retograde motion, among others, that agreed well with observations.  \n\nAs a result his model, while initially not as accurate as the complicated geocentric model, gained credence from some due to its decent predictions and simplicity.  This was as opposed to the geocentric model which had been bogged down with epicycles and offsets to correct for errors.  After a few revisions from the likes of Kepler and Newton, among others, the Copernician model created better predictions than the geocentric model.  \n\nTheories are not proven.  The best theory is the  one that reproduces observations with the highest accuracy.
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I'm sure many of the famous astronomers before him like Edwin Hubble, Harlow Shapley, James Jeans (mentioned by person in an interview) where all important to his work.  Check out some of his papers in the Astrophysical Journal or the Astronomical Jounal and check who the references are.
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Ben had meetings with people on how to improve themselves, their business and the community. He was one of the founding fathers building in the 3 branches of government, separating power to combat human problems such as corupt kings.\nHe was a greatly admired scientist working with LaVosier in France and debunking mesmerism. \nHumanitatian for giving his invention of the lighting rod without royalties since it benefitted so many. \nHe followed Descartes thoughts that the world was mechanistis. It is not enough to believe. There needs to be test, evidence, theory. A great relief to the wichcraft victums,
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They share the same birthday. Stephen Hawking was born exactly 300 years after Galileo.
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this is not a question about astronomy.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomy
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I don't think that Mr. Hawking is through with the world of theoretical astronomy just yet. About all he has is his mind and boy does he use it. A lot of his most creative work has come to us after his 40th birthday.  Keep on thinkin' Steevo!!!!
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Tycho Brahe's contributions to astronomy were enormous. He not only designed and built instruments, he also calibrated them and checked their accuracy periodically. He thus revolutionized astronomical instrumentation. He also changed observational practice profoundly. Whereas earlier astronomers had been content to observe the positions of planets and the Moon at certain important points of their orbits (e.g., opposition, quadrature, station), Tycho and his cast of assistants observed these bodies throughout their orbits. As a result, a number of orbital anomalies never before noticed were made explicit by Tycho. Without these complete series of observations of unprecedented accuracy, Kepler could not have discovered that planets move in elliptical orbits. Tycho was also the first astronomer to make corrections for atmospheric refraction. In general, whereas previous astronomers made observations accurate to perhaps 15 arc minutes, those of Tycho were accurate to perhaps 2 arc minutes, and it has been shown that his best observations were accurate to about half an arc minute. \n\nTycho's observations of the new star of 1572 and comet of 1577, and his publications on these phenomena, were instrumental in establishing the fact that these bodies were above the Moon and that therefore the heavens were not immutable as Aristotle had argued and philosophers still believed. The heavens were changeable and therefore the Aristotelian division between the heavenly and earthly regions came under attack (see, for instance, Galileo's Dialogue) and was eventually dropped. Further, if comets were in the heavens, they moved through the heavens. Up to now it had been believed that planets were carried on material spheres (spherical shells) that fit tightly around each other. Tycho's observations showed that this arrangement was impossible because comets moved through these spheres. Celestial spheres faded out of existence between 1575 and 1625. \n\n \nTychonic Universe \nIf Tycho destroyed the dichotomy between the corrupt and ever changing sublunary world and the perfect and immutable heavens, then the new universe was clearly more hospitable for the heliocentric planetary arrangement proposed by Nicholas Copernicus in 1543. Was Tycho therefore a follower of Copernicus? He was not. Tycho gave various reasons for not accepting the heliocentric theory, but it appears that he could not abandon Aristotelian physics which is predicated on an absolute notion of place. Heavy bodies fall to their natural place, the Earth, which is the center of the universe. If the Earth were not the center of the universe, physics, as it was then known, was utterly undermined. On the other hand, the Copernican system had a number of advantages, some technical (such as a better lunar theory and smaller epicycles), and others more based on harmony (an obvious explanation of retrograde planetary motion, a strict demonstration of the order and heliocentric distances of the planets). Tycho developed a system that combined the best of both worlds. He kept the Earth in the center of the universe, so that he could retain Aristotelian physics (the only physics available). The Moon and Sun revolved about the Earth, and the shell of the fixed stars was centered on the Earth. But Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn revolved about the Sun. He put the (circular) path of the comet of 1577 between Venus and Mars. This Tychonic world system became popular early in the seventeenth century among those who felt forced to reject the Ptolemaic arrangement of the planets (in which the Earth was the center of all motions) but who, for various reasons, could not accept the Copernican alternative.
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Chocoroll:  not Pluto - look up Uranus.\n\nJodrell Bank (UK) is still the larged ground telescope whilst I suppose Hubble is the equivilant in space.
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Try looking it up on Galileo or EBSCOHost database.
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A sampling of famous astronomers\nAstronomer Contribution \nHipparchus and Ptolemy Determined the positions of about 1,000 bright stars, tried to explain the puzzles of astronomy without refuting only believed geocentric model of universe and classified stars by magnitude. \nAristarchus of Samos First known person to propound the heliocentric model of universe. Attempted to calculate the sizes and distances of the Sun and Moon. \nNasir al-Din al-Tusi This Persian astronomer gave the first extant exposition of the whole system of plane and spherical trigonometry. Made very accurate tables of planetary movements and named many stars. Developed the Tusi-couple which resolves linear motion into the sum of two circular motions. He also calculated the value of 51' for the precession of the equinoxes and contributed to construction and usage of astrolabe. \nNicolaus Copernicus First exponent of heliocentrism in modern times. \nTycho Brahe Did develop many important astronomical instruments, and achieved accurate measurments of the heavens by improving scentific methodology and by designing instruments on a large scale. His measurements of the orbit of Mars were very important to the development of astronomy. \nJohannes Kepler Suggested the elliptical orbits of planets, and propounded his Laws of Planetary Motion. \nGalileo Galilei Was the first to use the telescope to observe the sky. Condemned to house arrest for his discoveries by Inquisitional edict, which was lifted 359 years later by Pope John Paul II. \nIsaac Newton Published Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687), containing the "Newton's laws of motion", which are fundamental to mechanical physics, and which explained Kepler's laws of planetary motion. Predicted the orbits of the planets. \nSubrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Extensive work on the internal mechanisms of stars, particularly known for determining the effect of special relativity on stars, including being the first to calculate the Chandrasekhar limit, which he did, without a calculator, on a boat journey. \nHenrietta Swan Leavitt Catalogued Cepheid variable stars in the Magellanic Clouds, in 1912 discovered the relationship between luminosty and periodicity in Cepheids -- leading to Hertzprung's later work. \nEjnar Hertzsprung determined the distance to several Cepheids, when Cepheids were detected in other galaxies such as the Andromeda galaxy, the distance to those galaxies could then be determined. \nEdwin Hubble Discovered the expansion of the universe. (Hubble's Law) The Hubble Orbiting Space Telescope was named in his honor.
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Newton actually is the first to come up with the law of universal gravity, g*m(1)*m(2)/(d)squared.  So he's the first to measure gravity as a force, but Galileo is the first in western culture to measure it as an acceleration and conclude it was a constant.
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Among his non-telephone inventions are the metal detector, photophone, telegraph, phonograph and the audiometer. Of course, he also supported many other fields, such as aeronautics and hydrofoil.