Travelers And Scientists in First And Middle Ages // PART 2 \\

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Hi, guys.  I published the previous part-1. I hope you like it.Now we are in the second part. Lets start.

Al-Biruni 

He lived in 973-1048. He Knowed from astronomy, geography, music, medicine and philosophy. Biruni said about availability of gravity, 700 years before Newton. For the first time El-Biruni defended the idea that 'the world is turning around' , 600 years ago from Galileo. He predicted that there was a land(USA) behind those seas. 

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Al-Battani 

Battani, astronomer, astrologer and mathematician. The most important astronomers and mathematicians of the Battani period. He measured a year as 365 days, 5 hours, 46 minutes and 24 seconds.

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Bartolomeu Dias 

Bartolomeu Dias is a Portuguese sailor and traveler. He found the cape of hope.

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Vasco Da Gama 

He lived in 1450-1524. He is one of the most successful explorers in Europe. He is a Portuguese seaman. He is the first person to leave Europe and go directly to India.

 

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Kristof Kolomb 

He lived in 1451-1506. He was the first European to cross the Atlantic Ocean in 1492 to reach North America.

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Magellan 

He lived in 1480-1521. Ferdinand Magellan; South Africa, Cape of Good Hope and Magellan crossed the strait and traveled the world by ship.

 

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Leonardo Da Vinci 

He lived in 1452-1519. He is a renowned artist of the Renaissance period. He's a mechanic and a physicist. Also he is a painter. He is famous for the "Mona Lisa" and "Last Supper" tables.

  

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Pascal 

He lived in 1623-1662. Blaise Pascal is a French mathematician, physicist and philosopher. He's the inventor of the calculator. Pascal's book Pensees (Thoughts), which is the most famous book on religion, science and life, and the philosophical pain. The important part in this book is the belief of God in Pascal. “If God does not exist, one will lose nothing by believing in him, while if he does exist, one will lose everything by not believing” 

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Galileo 

He lived in 1564-1642. He is an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer and philosopher. He is the first person who uses the telescope in the field of astronomy. He was named "father of modern physics" and "father of science".

 

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Isaac Newton He lived in 1643-1727. He is a British astronomer, physicist, philosopher and mathematician. Newton proved gravity. He found the principle of inertia. 

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Denis Papin 

He lived in 1647-1712. He's a French scientist. He invented that whistle pot. He is the first person who uses it as a source of steam energy. 

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Alessandro Volta 

He lived in 1745-1827. He invented the battery.

 

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Takıyuddın Mehmet 

He is an astronomer. He founded the first observatory in the Ottoman Empire.

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Ali Kuscu 

He is an important astronomy and mathematical scholar that lived in the fifteenth century. He calculated the latitude and longitude of Istanbul.

 

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Matrakcı Nasuh 

There is no information about his birth date and place. Nasuh was an important scientist, especially in the fields of geometry and mathematics. Nasuh wrote two books on mathematics. Also, Nasuh is a very skilled musketeer.

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