What was Galileo Galilei"S childhood like?
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Yuri Gagarin was born in Klushino near Gzhatsk, a region west of Moscow, Russia, on March 9, 1934 (the town would be renamed Gagarin in 1968 to honour Yuri), and his parents worked on a collective farm. While manual laborers are described in official reports as "peasants," this is something of an exaggeration: his mother was reportedly a voracious reader, and his father a skilled carpenter. Yuri was the third of four children, and his elder sister helped raise him while his parents worked. Like millions of people in the Soviet Union, the Gagarin family suffered great hardship in World War II. His two elder siblings were taken away to Germany in 1943, and did not return until after the war. His teachers described Gagarin as intelligent and hard-working, if occasionally mischievous. His mathematics teacher flew in the Red Army Air Force during the war, which presumably made some substantial impression on young Gagarin.\n\nAfter starting an apprenticeship in a metalworks as a foundryman, Gagarin was selected for further training at a high technical school in Saratov. While there, he joined the "AeroClub," and learned to fly a light aircraft, a hobby that began to take up an increasing proportion of his time. Through dint of effort, rather than brilliance, he reportedly mastered both; in 1955, after completing his technical schooling, he entered military flight training at the Orenburg Pilot's School. While there he met Valentina Goryacheva, whom he married in 1957, after gaining his pilot's wings in a MiG-15. After graduating, he was posted at an airbase in Murmansk region, near the Norwegian border, where terrible weather made flying risky. As a full-grown man, Gagarin was 5 feet 2 inches (approx. 157.5cm) tall.\n\nSelection and training\nIn 1960, an extensive search and selection process saw Yuri Gagarin, among 20 other cosmonauts, selected for the Soviet space program. Along with the other prospective cosmonauts, he was subjected to a punishing series of experiments designed to test his physical and psychological endurance, as well as training relating to the upcoming flight. Out of the 20 selected, eventually the choice for the first to launch was between Gagarin and Gherman Titov, because of their excellent performance in training, as well as their physical characteristics - space was at a premium in the small Vostok cockpit. The choice of Gagarin, ultimately approved at the highest levels, was probably made due to Gagarin's modest upbringing and genial, outgoing personality, as distinct from the middle-class and somewhat aloof Titov.\n\nOn April 12, 1961, Gagarin became the first human to travel into space in Vostok 3KA-2 (Vostok 1). His call sign in this flight was Cedar (Russian: Кедр). According to international media, from orbit Gagarin made the comment, "I don't see any god up here." There are, however, no such words in the full verbatim record of Gagarin's conversations with the Earth during the spaceflight [1].\n\nWhile in orbit Gagarin was promoted "in the field" from the lowly rank of Senior Lieutenant to Major - and this was the rank at which TASS announced him in its triumphant statement during the flight. At the time the Soviet authorities thought it was more likely he would perish during his descent than survive.\n\nReturning to Earth, Gagarin became very famous. Nikita Khrushchev rushed to his side and Gagarin issued a statement praising the Communist Party of the Soviet Union as the "organiser of all our victories." He then toured the world. Khrushchev saw Gagarin's achievement as a vindication of his policy of strengthening the Soviet Union's missile forces at the expense of conventional arms. This policy antagonised the Soviet military establishment and contributed to Khrushchev's eventual downfall.\n\nAfter the flight, Gagarin became an instant, worldwide celebrity, touring widely to promote the Soviet achievement. He pro
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http://www.chemistry.co.nz/mendeleev.htm\n\nhttp://www.corrosion-doctors.org/Biographies/MendeleevBio.htm\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Mendeleev\n^Wikipedia has a lot of good information, however it is open for editing by the public, so make sure you check that your information is correct.\n\nGood luck!
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He was born around 1170, about 100 miles north of Madrid, Spain.\n\nWhen he was 7 years old he was sent to live with his uncle who was a priest.\n\nWhen he was 25, he was ordained a priest himself.\n\nHe was instrumental in promoting the tradition of the Rosary in the Catholic church.\n\nHe continued on to be a significant figure in the Catholic Church of his time, and founder of the Dominican Order of priests.\n\nThese links will give you many details about his life.  I hope this helps.
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Galileo's sketches of the Moon.\n\nHere are Galileo's drawings of the jagged surface of the moon.  His telescopic observations convinced him that the moon could not be a perfect, crystalline sphere.  (In the Greek scientific tradition, everything from the moon on out is made of a special, fifth element, whose natural motion is in a circle.  Everything below the moon's orbit is made of the four elements earth, fire, air, and water. \n\nhttp://unr.edu/homepage/nickles/wthonors/galileo.htm
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click here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton\nhttp://galileoandeinstein.physics.virginia.edu/lectures/newton.html\nhttp://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/newtlife.html\nhttp://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Newton.html\nhttp://www.treasure-troves.com/bios/Newton.html\nhttp://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/PictDisplay/Newton.html\nhttp://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blnewton.htm\nhttp://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9108764/Sir-Isaac-Newton
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a little from column a and a littlefrom column b. this has been a source of debate for 100 years. nature or nurture. all those things you said contribute as well as how the person was raised.
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Left alone with him for about 2 1/2 mins I think a 12 year old could probably convince him.\n\nI'd prefer serious questions for us to ridicule *ahem* sorry, debate scientology in though.\n\nOh and jdmc2596 below, a colony is Gibraltar owned by Britain. More British Colonies: (Any place with a date like this "1760-")\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Colonial_Territories_by_country#Great_Britain_.2F_England\n\nThe United States has some too...\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Colonial_Territories_by_country#United_States\n\nOr go here for the full list.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Colonial_Territories_by_country
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He is related to the Founders.  It is explained in the Series.  It does make for an interesting nature vs nurture debate.
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Leonardo Fibonacci was born in Pisa, Italy, around 1175. His father was Guilielmo Bonacci, a secretary of the Republic of Pisa.His father was also a customs officer for the North African city of Bugia. Some time after 1192. Bonacci brought his son with him to Bugia.Guilielmo wanted for Leonardo to become a merchant and so arranged for his instruction in calculational techniques, escpecially those involving the Hindu - Arabic numerals which had not yet been introduced into Europe.Since Fibonacci was the son of a merchant, he was able go travel freely all over the Byzantine Empire. Merchants at the time were immuned, so they were allowed to move about freely. This allowed him to visit many of the area's centers of trade. While he was there, he was able to learn both the mathematics of the scholars and the calculating schemes in popular use, at the time.
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Don't fret my friend, he had to pick up like 40,000 of his kids from soccer practice over in the andromeda galaxy.  He was also had to go over and kill a few billion first born children in the Pisces star cluster due to misbehavior.  He called me to say that he was running a little late.
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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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Galileo did something that you should never do.  He looked at the sun through a telescope, which later caused him to go blind.  But over a period of time he observed the sun and he saw sunspots.  If you took a ping pong ball and spun it through the air then it might be hard to tell that it was spinning.  But if you put a spot on the same ping pong ball and then spun it through the air then you would even be able to tell how fast it was spinning. It was the same for Galileo.  He was able to measure how long it took the sun to rotate (about 25 days near the equator).
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Roger Bacon (c. 1214 – 1294), also known as Doctor Mirabilis (Latin: "astounding teacher"), was one of the most famous Franciscan friars of his time. He was an English philosopher who placed considerable emphasis on empiricism, and has been presented as one of the earliest advocates of the modern scientific method; though later studies have emphasized his reliance on occult and alchemical traditions. He was intimately acquainted with the philosophical and scientific insights of the Arab world, one of the most advanced civilizations at the time.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Bacon
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no, not really because most of the senior Roman Catholic curia during the Renaissance were humanists and more than likely they were at the very least agnostics. they probably understood and accepted what Galileo said was true, but any attack on the dogma of the catholic church also affected its secular political power. religious fanatics most resemble the witch burners, immersed in unshakable superstition and ignorance. the people who most resemble those who persecuted Galileo are the politicians who mouth religious conviction in order to gain or retain power.
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1)what kind of person their son had become.
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he was born on July 22,1822 in the agricultural district in today's Czechoslovakia.\n\nhe entered the monastery at the age of 25 to become a priest. later he taught at the high school in the town of Brunn. he natural sciences and mathematics at the University of Vienna from 1851-1854.