This document discusses several influential astronomers including Nicolaus Copernicus who developed the Copernican model of the solar system, Galileo Galilei who was an Italian polymath known as the father of observational astronomy and modern physics through his astronomical observations and experiments, and Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein who made groundbreaking contributions to physics and our understanding of gravity and relativity.
This document discusses several influential astronomers including Nicolaus Copernicus who developed the Copernican model of the solar system, Galileo Galilei who was an Italian polymath known as the father of observational astronomy and modern physics through his astronomical observations and experiments, and Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein who made groundbreaking contributions to physics and our understanding of gravity and relativity.
This document discusses several influential astronomers including Nicolaus Copernicus who developed the Copernican model of the solar system, Galileo Galilei who was an Italian polymath known as the father of observational astronomy and modern physics through his astronomical observations and experiments, and Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein who made groundbreaking contributions to physics and our understanding of gravity and relativity.
Galileo Galilei Galileo Galilei was an Italian polymath: astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician. He has been called the "father of observational astronomy or Father of modern physics. Isaac Newton Halley Albert Einstein