《Extensive reading》课件五十三（46张PPT）（人教版必修5）.pptVIP

Extensive Reading Match the people with their achievement Da Vinci Don Quixote  Galileo Hamlet Cervantes Free Fall Experiment Shakespeare Mona Lisa We know the first scientist is Copernicus. He was one of the first scientists to use mathematical observations to collect information. He believed the sun is the center of the universe and the earth and other planets went around it. The chart on P.7 shows his theory. Copernicus’ Revolutionary Theory 1497 Began observations of the Sun, Moon, and planets 1514 Wrote Commentariolus, an outline of his astronomical ideas, but did not circulate it widely 1543 Published De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial) 3. Copernicus didn’t show his new theory to his friends until he completed it. 4. His friends were not interested in his ideas. As a scientist, Copernicus was more cautious than coward. If he had published his ideas at his time, he would have been killed just as Bruno who was burnt to death because his theory was against the Christian Church’s. Dear Nicolaus Copernicus, I am a student studying astronomy and I would very much like to read your new theory about the solar system. I hope you will publish it for several reasons. I know your observations have been very carefully carried out over many years. Now you must have the courage to publish them. Science can never advance unless people have the courage of their beliefs. What’s Euler’s puzzle? Koningsberg is an island and there is a river breaking it into two parts. The first stage in his research is to find the problem that he could cross six of the bridges without going over any of them twice or going back on himself, but he couldn’t cross all seven. It is topology. Euler’s theory is called “The Eule