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17 hours ago · Muhammad [a] ( / moʊˈhɑːməd /; Arabic: مُحَمَّد, romanized :Muḥammad [mʊˈħæm.mæd]; c. 570 – 8 June 632 CE) [b] was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. [c] According to Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet divinely inspired to preach and confirm the monotheistic teachings of Adam, Abraham ...
4 days ago · Summarize This Article. Galileo (born February 15, 1564, Pisa [Italy]—died January 8, 1642, Arcetri, near Florence) was an Italian natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who made fundamental contributions to the sciences of motion, astronomy, and strength of materials and to the development of the scientific method.
- Albert Van Helden
- Galileo was a natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who made fundamental contributions to the sciences of motion, astronomy, and stren...
- Galileo invented an early type of thermometer. Although he did not invent the telescope, he made significant improvements to it that enabled astron...
- In 1610 Galileo discovered the four biggest moons of Jupiter (now called the Galilean moons) and the rings of Saturn.
- For his heresy in claiming that Earth orbits the Sun, Galileo was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Roman Catholic Church in 1633. He was not t...
- Galileo influenced scientists for decades to come, not least in his willingness to stand up to the church to defend his findings. His improvements...
4 days ago · Specifically, the signal emanated from the neutral hydrogen surrounding them as the gas absorbed and reemitted the galaxies' light. These galaxies, the researchers found, existed around 400 to 600 million years after the Big Bang, which took place around 13.8 billion years ago. This makes the three galaxies some of the earliest detected.
5 days ago · Elizabeth II (born April 21, 1926, London, England—died September 8, 2022, Balmoral Castle, Aberdeenshire, Scotland) was the queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from February 6, 1952, to September 8, 2022.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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1 day ago · Isaac Newton was born (according to the Julian calendar in use in England at the time) on Christmas Day, 25 December 1642 (NS 4 January 1643) at Woolsthorpe Manor in Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, a hamlet in the county of Lincolnshire. His father, also named Isaac Newton, had died three months before.
3 days ago · Constantine I (27 February c. 272 – 22 May 337), also known as Constantine the Great, was a Roman emperor from AD 306 to 337 and the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity. [h] He played a pivotal role in elevating the status of Christianity in Rome, decriminalizing Christian practice and ceasing Christian persecution in a period ...
4 days ago · Generation X, a term typically used to describe the generation of Americans born between 1965 and 1980, although some sources use slightly different ranges.It has sometimes been called the “middle child” generation, as it follows the well-known baby boomer generation and precedes the millennial generation (Generation Y, meaning those born between 1981–96).
