Campo de' Fiori Essays

scholarships from italian government , Rockefeller Fellowship, and he spent a several month with renowned Professor Max Born in Göttingen, German. One of his first sources for his study of physics was a book, he found at the local market at Campo de' Fiori in Rome. It covered mathematics, classical mechanics, astronomy, optics, and acoustics, insofar as these disciplines were understood when the book was written. He befriended another scientifically inclined student. Enrico Persico and him together

Today virtually every child grows up learning that the Earth orbits the Sun, but four centuries ago the heliocentric solar system, where the Earth orbits the Sun, was so controversial that the Catholic Church classified it as a crime of heresy (UCLA). In the age of early philosophy, Socrates’ is well known. Between the Socratic method and his line of successful students, Socrates’ makes the history books. Galileo Galilei turned astronomers on their heads when he discovered moons around Jupiter.