Great Astronomers
Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2010 11:45 pm
Thank you a lot!!!
Your book is so full of informations about History of Sciences, it is a really great project
I have read just some parts of this huge online book.
I join a picture i have taken, last September, showing a statue of one of the great scientists your book is about Le Verrier.
Like many other great scientists, he wasn't just an astronomer.
Indeed, Le Verrier, who discovered Neptune, also was meteorologist and politician. I know François Arago (1786/1853) was a French astronomer, a physician and a politician. Avicenne (980/1037) was a Persian philosopher, a writer, and a doctor. Giordano Bruno (1548/1600) was an Italian Dominican friar, a philosopher, a mathematician and an astronomer, burned at stake for heresy: he pretended there was an inifity of inhabited worlds, other than the Earth, in the Universe...
Those scientists didn't belonged to the same century, neither to the same region of the world, but iwe can notice it was possible to be very polyvalent at those times. By now, science becomes more and more accurate. We can hardly seriously both study and work so different fields, although we can be interested in various ones.
Have a very good day!
Thank you
Céline
