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Updated: 19 May 2023
World History - Semester 2 Final Project
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Galileo Galilei discovers the principle of inertia, building the stage for a rational view of motion.William Gilbert finds that Earth has magnetic poles and acts like a huge magnet.Hans Lippershey invents the refracting telescope, which Galileo Galilei soon puts to use.Galileo Galilei observes Jupiter’s four largest moons, disproving church dogma that all movement in the universe is centered on Earth.Johannes Kepler publishes his first two laws of planetary motion showing that planets move in elliptical orbits around the sun.John Napier publishes tables of logarithms, showing how they can be used to accelerate calculations.
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