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Date: 22 May 2019
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Post No. 6426
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Following anecdotes are taken from an old book. Galileo’s Patient 50 year observation helped him to invent the telescope, properties of pendulum and free fall.
Captain Brown (Sir Samuel Brown) invented Suspension Bridge by observing a spider and its web.
Sir Brunel took his first lesson in building Thames Tunnel from a tiny ship worm.
Galvani did find something new about electricity from a Frog.
Another anecdote shows that old age is not a bar in learning new languages.
Tags- Galileo, Pendulum, Galvani, Sr Samuel, Suspension Bridge, Sir Brunel, Galvani
–subham–
Tamil and Vedas 
R.Nanjappa (@Nanjundasarma)
/ May 23, 2019Galileo was subjected to the Inquisition of 1610 by the Roman Catholic Church for his saying that the earth was NOT the centre of the Universe, and that it was the earth which moved around the sun [ Heliocentrism]. He was condemned by the Church for heresy in 1616.
Thomas Hardy, the famous English novelist and poet is quoted as saying:
” If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved,
the inquisition might have let him alone.”
I am not able to locate the source of this quotation, and the context in which it was said. May be, because, most people do not understand poetry, and many think that poets are any way dreamers or fools or mad caps, and may say anything that need not be taken seriously.
Newton escaped this fate because the Church saw his theories [Gravity] as supporting its doctrines and so help it ! i However, Newton was not quite open about his theories like Galileo had been, and so went free!
Tamil and Vedas
/ May 24, 2019Probably Newton was not honest. Somewhere I read Newton stole other’s ideas and there was some controversy about it during his time.