Essays on Astronomer

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was an Italian physicist, astronomer, philosopher, engineer and mathematician. He was a critical figure in the scientific revolution of the 17th century. Galileo is perhaps most synonymous with the invention of the modern telescope which has since helped man to discover countless things about the universe. In regard to astronomy, Galileo is erroneously credited with the discovery of the first telescope. His contribution was carrying out massive improvements on the existing telescopes. In 1609, Galileo learnt about the spyglass which was crudely used in ordinary life to view distant places on the land. Galileo began to ...

‘Love’ is among the majorly debated themes by both the modern and postmodern poets. Fundamentally, love refers to a deep affection for something towards another thing. The poems “A&P” by John Updike, “Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord” by Gerard Manley Hopkins, “a leaf falls” by E.E. Cummings and When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" by Walt Whitman vividly provides a depiction of love, as some of the major thematic issues. This paper, therefore, provides an analysis and the discussion of ‘” love” as one of the major thematic issues portrayed in “A&P”, “Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord “a leaf falls” ...

Introduction

The very title of this article may seem to some readers fantastic. Is there any evidence that alien beings exist? Can we prove that there is no clear scientific argument in favor of their life and activity? Such questions immediately arise among readers, of course, they are quite natural. And yet, I will try to show that the statement of the problem in our time of exclusively rapid scientific and technical progress is quite logic. Moreover, most recently the first steps towards the solution of this great problem facing mankind were taken. Basically, from the scientific point of view ...

Described as a man of the first many in terms of his inventions and accomplishments, Benjamin Banneker was the first self-educated African-American born in 1731 in an enslaved family. Both of Benjamin Banneker parents were free people considering that his mother was a daughter of an English woman named Mary, who got married to a slave Bannka after she had freed him. Therefore, Benjamin was able to elude the cruelty that many African-Americans went through as slaves and even had the privilege of attending a Quaker school while staying with his maternal grandmother. In that, he began his education ...

Introduction

Our galaxy, the star system of our solar system, is called the Milky Way. The Milky Way is a grand cluster of stars visible in the sky as a bright band of fog. In the ancient Greek, the word "galaktikos" means "milk", "milky", so the Milky Way and stellar systems similar to it are called galaxies. In our galaxy, there are more than 200 billion stars of very different luminosity and color ("The Milky Way Galaxy - 200 billion stars", 2016). The Solar neighborhood is the volume of the galaxy, where we can observe and study the stars of ...