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Domingo de Soto, O.P. (1494 – 15 November 1560) was a Spanish Dominican priest and Scholastic theologian born in Segovia , and died in Salamanca , at the age of 66. He is best known as one of the founders of international law and of the Spanish Thomistic philosophical and theological movement known as the School of Salamanca .
Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642), commonly referred to as Galileo Galilei (/ ˌ ɡ æ l ɪ ˈ l eɪ oʊ ˌ ɡ æ l ɪ ˈ l eɪ /, US also / ˌ ɡ æ l ɪ ˈ l iː oʊ-/; Italian: [ɡaliˈlɛːo ɡaliˈlɛːi]) or mononymously as Galileo, was a Florentine astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath.
The article currently says that the times-squared law was "already discovered by Domingo de Soto in the 16th century". I have been unable to find a source to confirm this. In Domingo de Soto and the Early Galileo (pp.І 120, ІІ 384) William Wallace merely says that de Soto gave the law of free fall (i.e. that the speed of falling bodies increases "uniformly difformly"—or, in modern ...
For Domingo de Soto, the theologian's task is to assess the moral foundations of civil law. [9] That's how he criticized the new Spanish charities' laws on the pretext that they violated the fundamental rights of the poor, [ 10 ] or that Juan de Mariana considered that the consent of population was needed in matter of taxation or money alteration.
16th century - Domingo de Soto suggests that bodies falling through a homogeneous medium are uniformly accelerated. [11] [12] Soto, however, did not anticipate many of the qualifications and refinements contained in Galileo's theory of falling bodies. He did not, for instance, recognise, as Galileo did, that a body would fall with a strictly ...
In 1551, Domingo de Soto suggested that objects in free fall accelerate uniformly. [8] Two years later, mathematician Giambattista Benedetti questioned why two balls, one made of iron and one of wood, would fall at the same speed. [8] All of this preceded the 1564 birth of Galileo Galilei.
Paolo Casati (1617–1707) – Jesuit mathematician who wrote on astronomy, meteorology, and vacuums; the crater Casatus on the Moon is named after him; published Terra machinis mota (1658), a dialogue between Galileo, Paul Guldin and father Marin Mersenne on cosmology, geography, astronomy and geodesy, giving a positive image of Galileo 25 ...
An account of the lives and works of the most eminent Spanish painters, sculptors and architects is a book written by the Spanish painter Antonio Palomino and dedicated to the biographies of the most eminent artists who worked in Spain during the so-called Siglo de Oro, the golden age of Spanish art.