Famous Personalities and Discoveries

The first telescope was made by Hans Lippershey in the early 1600s. He was a German-Dutch glassmaker, and he managed to reduce the amount of light in his telescope while focusing it. His model inspired other scientists to work on perfecting the telescope.

The geocentric model, which places the Earth at the center of the universe, was famously supported by Aristotle and later Ptolemy.

Eratosthenes calculated the actual circumference of the earth in the 3rd century CE. He was a Greek scientific writer, astronomer, and poet. His work is comparable to what is now known as the study of geography, and he introduced some of the terminology still used today.

Daniel Bernoulli is well known for his work in fluid mechanics (Bernoulli's principle) and the kinetic theory of gases, as well as his mathematical analysis of vibrating strings.

Eratosthenes, a Greek mathematician and astronomer, is famous for calculating the circumference and radius of the Earth with remarkable accuracy using the shadows of the sun.

Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, a Danish archaeologist, proposed the Three Age System (Stone, Bronze, and Iron Ages) to classify prehistoric artifacts.

Dobereiner, in 1817 suggested a relationship between the properties of elements and their atomic weights. According to Dobereiner, the atomic weight of the middle element is nearly the same as average of the atomic weights of other two elements.

General Grievous was a Kaleesh warlord who was severely injured in a shuttle crash and subsequently rebuilt as a cyborg by the Geonosians.

Sir Alec Jeffreys is widely recognized as the father of DNA fingerprinting for his development of the technique in 1984.

Bureaucracy is a government administration which is carried by departments staffed with non-elected officials. The founding father theory of Bureaucracy was Max Weber. He was a German Sociologist. According to him, Bureaucracy was a administration which is carried out by the trained professionals along with a rules which is fixed by the government.

Scala Naturae (Natural Ladder) was written by Aristotle to organize all things in the natural world, living and non-living. Aristotle's Scala Naturae showed a continuum from 'lower' forms of matter to 'higher' forms of matter. 

Sima Qian, the great historian of the Han Dynasty, recorded the history of China, including the concept of the Mandate of Heaven, in his 'Records of the Grand Historian'.

The Odyssey is an epic poem attributed to the Greek poet Homer, not the Chinese philosopher Confucius.

With the development of the heliocentric model by Nicolaus Copernicus in the 16th century, the sun was believed to be the center of the Universe, with the planets (including Earth) and stars orbiting it. 

Kepler's law states that a line segment joining a planet and the Sun sweeps out equal areas during equal intervals of time. So a planet moves most quickly when it is closest to the sun,as it have to cover more distance in same time but it again  slows down as it moves farther away as covering distance is less.