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Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus is an eminent Polish astronomer who initiated a new understanding of the world system, abandoning the preceding teaching on the position of the Earth as the center of the universe that has existed for many centuries. In his brilliant work “On the rotation of the celestial spheres,” the scientist argues that the observed movements of the celestial bodies are the result of the rotation of the Earth around its axis and the rotation of the planets around the Sun. Continue reading
Thomas Edison
The name of the famous American inventor, a talented 19th century entrepreneur, the founder of several large electrical companies Thomas Edison is inextricably linked to a number of great inventions that have not lost their significance and relevance in our modern world. On account of the great experimenter more than a thousand inventions in various fields of electrical engineering. Continue reading
Home »Scientists» Pavel Petrovich Anosov Pavel Petrovich Anosov
An outstanding mining engineer, the brilliant metallurgical scientist P.P. Anosov. Born one of the founders of the new science – metallography 29.06.1796, in Tver. In addition to Paul, three more children grew up in a family of collegiate assessor P. Anosov. After the early death of the parents of the children, LF Sabakin, the grandfather of the mother, took care of him. It was he who played the most important role in the further fate of the adolescent, identifying Paul and his brother to the St. Petersburg Mining Cadet Corps in 1810. Continue reading