How are Galileo Newton and Aristotle alike?

Answer 1

Copernicus believed that the sun was the center of the solar system (maybe even the universe) and wrote a book about it, but was so afraid of the Catholic Church that he would not allow it to be published until he was near death.

Galileo also believed the sun was the center of the solar system, and proved that everything did not revolve about the earth by observing the moons of Jupiter (still referred to as Galilean moons) and seeing that they revolved around Jupiter. He wrote a book on his discoveries and was threatened by the Catholic Church and was forced to recant his beliefs. He was placed under 'house arrest' by the Church for the last 9 years of his life. In 1969 the Catholic Church issued an apology to Galileo.

Kepler took many years observations of Tycho Brahe and showed that the planets did not revolve about the Sun in circles, but in ellipses. He also developed 2 other laws about the planets changing speed as the distance from the sun changed as they moved in their elliptical orbit, and about equal areas swept by a line from the planet to the sun in equal time intervals.

Newton used mathematics and his law of universal gravitation to prove Kepler's Laws of Planetary motion were correct.

Answer 2

Galileo, Newton, and Aristotle were all influential figures in the field of science and made significant contributions to our understanding of the natural world. They each proposed groundbreaking theories that laid the foundation for modern physics and astronomy. Additionally, they all emphasized the importance of observation and experimentation in scientific inquiry.

Answer 3

They deduced that the earth was rotating in an eliptical orbit around the sun.

Answer 4

There were all philosophers over 100 years ago and they all made monumental progress in science.