#scientificrevolution

[sciencespectrum]

Who was Isaac Newton and why is he famous?

Isaac Newton 🍎🌌 was a brilliant English scientist, mathematician, and astronomer who changed the way we see the world. Born in Woolsthorpe, England 🏡 on January 4, 1643, Newton showed curiosity and intelligence from an early age. He attended the University of Cambridge, where he studied mathematics, physics, and astronomy 📚🔭.

Newton is best known for his three laws of motion ⚖️: 1️⃣ An object remains at rest or moves at a uniform speed unless acted upon by a force.

2️⃣ Force is mass times acceleration (F = ma).

3️⃣ Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

He also discovered the law of universal gravitation 🌍🍏, which explains why apples fall and why planets revolve around the Sun 🌞🪐. His work linked the motion of objects on Earth to the motion of celestial bodies, leading to a new understanding of physics.

In mathematics, Newton developed calculus, which provided tools for solving problems related to motion and change. His experiments with light and prisms helped him discover that white light contains all the colors, revolutionizing our understanding of optics and vision.

Newton held important positions such as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics and Master of the Royal Mint at Cambridge, and was a Fellow of the Royal Society. His seminal book Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica laid the foundation for classical physics.

Isaac Newton's ideas continue to influence physics, mathematics, astronomy, and engineering. Often considered the father of modern science, he demonstrated how the mysteries of the universe could be unraveled through careful observation, experimentation, and mathematics 🌠💡.

[ofgraveconcern]

Witches and Cyriptids on the Moone! 🌝 Scientific Dichotomies 1571 - 1835 A tale in three Parts. 📚 Part I 📖 🔭 23rd December, 1672 Giovanni Cassini discovers Rhea, a satellite of Saturn. On the same day in 1690 English astronomer John Flamsteed observes Uranus without realizing it was at that point still undiscovered. The discovery would later be credited to Sir William Herschel on March 13th, 1781, William Herschel believed that life existed on other planets, and in 1778 wrote that he had observed lunar towns. The idea however that life existed on the moon, or on these newly discovered planets was already by Herschel time an old idea. On the night of the 26th July 1609, English astronomer, mathematician, and ethnographer, Thomas Harriot made the first map of the moon, followed by Galileo’s map four months later, and Italian astronomer Geminiano Montanari 1662 map. At this same time in the late 1620’s, English bishop Francis Godwin, writing under the pseudonym of Domingo Gonsales, wrote what is considered as the first science fiction novel ‘The Man in the Moone’. The story describes Gonsales’ twelve day journey to the moon, using a flying machine tethered to a species of powerful swans he calls the ‘gansa 🦢 . On the surface he encounters the Lunars, inhabiting a utopian paradise. 🎈 The 18th and 19th century saw an increase in folklore and scientific speculation, including the possibility of life on other planets, aided by the first accessions of balloons, the first experiments with flight; and with men and woman leaving the earth’s surface for the first time, William Blake mocked the balloon fascination in his unfinished “An Island in the Moon” written in 1784. 📖 Part II & III in the comments. #historyofastronomy #williamherschel #issacnewton #johanneskepler #historyofscience #greatmoonhoax #illustration #illustrationartist #darkillustration #strangehistory #weirdhistory #themaninthemoon #scientificrevolution #witchcrafthistory #witchart #balloonartist #lifeonthemoon #edgarallenpoeart #edgarallenpoe #historicalillustration #interestingfinds #interestingart #cryptids #cryptidsighting #johnherschel #ballonmania https://www.instagram.com/p/CJTo5KmHvFp/?igshid=19yismmj2h1t7

[openlittermap]

“The right to a clean environment is a basic human right”

- Bernie Sanders during his speech launching the “21st century bill of rights” earlier this week

Join our movement and help us build the most awesome open and accessible database of pollution the world has ever seen 🤩🌎

[academiaproportal]

[vampiregal7]

Some say that; after the scientific revolution in Europe at the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the modern era, the most atheistic wave in the history of mankind had occurred . Doesn't this mean that science denies God existence and proves atheism ?!

[esowteric]

Renaissance, Reformation and Scientific Revolution

“[T]he Renaissance could have marked the beginning of a new civilization based on a creative partnership between humanity and nature. But that was not to be. The Protestant Reformation of northern Europe was, in some ways, a reaction against the sensate spirit of the Renaissance; and similarly, the emerging mechanistic worldview of the Scientific Revolution included a reaction against the idea of living, ensouled nature. Rather than the Renaissance view that science was a divine art through which humanity could care for and cultivate the world, the perspective of the coming era could be summed up in the Enlightenment conclusion that “the negation of nature is the way toward happiness.”

~ David Fideler, Restoring the Soul of the World: Our Living Bond with Nature’s Intelligence.

Image: La nascita di Venere. Image description: The birth of Venus. Image author: Sandro Botticelli (1445–1510). Image source: Wikimedia Commons. Image licence: Public domain.

[tyneoconnell]

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The coronation of our first openly gay monarch King James I & his eccentric wife Queen Anna’s passion for the arts & #scientificrevolution Unleashed the Achievements of the subversive women & LGBTQIAs hitherto erased or heteronormalised by #straight-White male Victorian #historians who used bigotry above facts to create a straight heroic narrative about Great straight-white Men, thereby ghosting the subversive women & #lgbtqia from history & depriving generations of our heroines & heroes. Everyone has been denied the true history of Great Britain and Ireland by the Victorian Calvinist heteronormative histiography. In order to rewrite history as a heroic narrative highlighting the deeds of Great straight anglosaxon Men. 💜 - From 1604 the openly #gay King JamesI new freedom’s to express ideas through #print & #fashion triggered the opportunities for all classes & genders As the English language expanded & transformed. Eccentric & #celebrity were amongst a plethora of existing words to acquire new meaning. Celebrity had previously referred to the “celebration of the sacred” #Eccentricity had been an astronomical measurement for a planets #deviancy from a circular orbit. By 1618 Celebrity described the “condition of being famous” & Eccentricity had became the term for subversive women like subversive#writers #Marywroth & #ElizabethCarey & #lgbtq #eccentrics #malfrith #Shakespeare, #SirFrancisBacon #aphrabehn & #inigojones - these Eccentrics were “The First Celebrities - grabbing the headlines in the 1600s - “The Century That Wrote Itself” & igniting the flame of possibility in a population ravenous for #newideas & #opportunities #queerhistorymatters #womenshistorymatters #lgbtqia #history Thank you to @homehouselondon @muirvidler @johndavidgusman & @velveteccentric #sustainablefashion #fashionasart #ancestralballgowns https://www.instagram.com/p/CEVB2pRgv-j/?igshid=8sbcklnuid6n

[tyneoconnell]

The Baroque Era began in 1600 as a recognition that #pleasure the arts & #beauty were key to furthering both the new ideas of the #scientificrevolution & the #cultural advances that illuminated the pathway from the medieval into the modern age . The Baroque challenged the #conformity & rigid cultural austerity promoted by Calvanism during the Reformation - Calvinism shunned #pleasure , the arts & beauty damning them as temptations to sin in direct opposition to the Baroque Movement which gloried in the belief that where beauty the arts & pleasure were concerned “more is more” - The #Baroque took its name from the asymmetrical #baroquepearls prized for their deviation from the conformity of the spherical pearl just as The #eccentrics - the bold women & #LGBTQs who rejected conformity to cut a line of their own with daring #newideas #lifestyles & #fashions were hailed as the #celebrities of the Baroque ⚜️#crown by @velveteccentric (at The Wolseley) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8__QdWgLfl/?igshid=1ct4omjwhv31a