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What is acceleration
Measure of how fast the speed of an object is changing
When and who did the first theories about motion of objects come from
Aristotle
What is telos and who was it proposed by
A Greek word that means a goal or end in which objects were naturally directed, Aristotle
What were scientific theories developed by in the early days of science
Philosophical thought
Whoms was Galileo
A mathematician inventor
Where and when did Galileo live
Florence, Italy, 1564 to 1642
What was different about Galileo than other thinkers at the time
he used experimentation and observations to determine theories
What was one of the things Galileo proposed that soon carried on to be a foundation for Newton’s First Law of motion
That objects Accelerate regardless of weight, made laws that governed free fall, and proposed that an object continues to move unless another force is acted upon it
What system did Ptolemy propose that would change the way people looked at the stars
The Geocentric theory, where everything circled the earth
Who debunked Geocentrism
Nicolaus Copernicus and made it public in 1543
When was Sir Isaac Newton Born
Same year Galileo died (1642)
What was Galileo arrested for and when
Agreeing with Copernicus, 1633
What was Sir Isaac most famous for
His Laws of Motion, 1687
What was Sir Isaac’s study called for motion
Principia Mathematica
What did Newton also Present about gravity?
The Law of Universal Gravitation
