The Leaning Tower of Pisa

The Leaning Tower of Pisa slants because of the type of soil it was built on. Many renovations have been done so the tower doesn't fall. The tower is a bell tower for the nearby church. Galileo performed an experiment where he dropped two objects of different weights and found that they fell at the exact same speed.

Italian Scientists

There is a church in Florence called Santa Croce. Within the church are memorials for Italian scientists. Galileo, Fermi, and Marconi are buried here. Galileo is known for his work involving telescopes. Fermi worked with nuclear physics. Marconi invented the radio.

the front of Santa Croce

Galileo's tomb

a plaque dedicated to Fermi

Marconi's plaque

Sir Isaac Newton

Per the request of my former physics instructor, I have been asked to do a post on Sir Isaac Newton. Newton is buried in London at Westminster Abbey. He greatly influenced modern science with his discovery of gravity and writing his three laws, Because of his contributions to our understanding of the natural world, he was knighted and given a grand memorial in his honor. Be sure to take AP Phyiscs in high school!! F=MA.

Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo Da Vinci, who was most famous for painting Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, also was very interested in physics, math, geology, engineering, writing, and botany. Today at the British Library, I saw some of Da Vinci's original notebooks from the 1400's. One of the notebooks contained his studies on optics. the behavior of light. Unfortunately I was not able to take a picture of it because of the library's rules.