The Canny Link Directory

Brahe, Tycho (1546-1601)

Brahe

Brahe, Tycho

Tycho Brahe Danish Astronomer

Cabrillo, Juan Rodriguez - in 1542 he sailed up the coast of what was then "New Spain" and discovered and named San Diego Bay and Santa Barbara.

Cartier, Jacques (1491-1557) - he went looking for a passage through or around North America to East Asia, as some had done before him, and many would after him.

Copernicus, Nicolaus (1473-1543)

Copernican Model: A Sun-Centered Solar System

Copernican Revolution

Copernican System

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Nicolaus Copernicus

Scientists: Nicolas Copernicus.

Coronado, Francisco de (1510-1554) - he set out in 1540 in search of a golden city, called Cibola, joined by a large expedition of Spanish, Indian allies, and slaves.

Cortés, Hernán

Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico - from the Modern History SourceBook.

History of the Conquest of Mexico - very long text file by William Hicking Prescott.

Texas Explorers - Cortez - correspondence between a student and an educator on the subject of the Spanish conqueror.

Drake, Sir Francis

Drake, Sir Francis - pages focused on his "Famous Voyage" - the circumnavigation of the world in the sixteenth century, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth.

English Mercurie, The - July 23rd, 1588 - account of Sir Francis Drake's confrontation with the Spanish Armada.

Galilei, Galileo (1564-1642)

Galileo and the Inquisition - story of Galileo's conflict with the Catholic Church.

Galileo and the Mathematics of Motion - explantion his experiments with gravity using animated MPG files.

Galileo's Pendulum Experiments - after investigating their behavior, he was able to use them as time measurement devices in later experiments.

History of Science: Galileo - by Prof. Fred L. Wilson.

Letter to Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany, 1615 - written by Galileo.

Hariot, Thomas (1560-1621)

Thomas Hariot (1560-1621) - the life and works of the mathematician, scientist and author.

Thomas Harriot's Moon Drawings - reproductions of drawings Hariot made of his telescopic observations of the moon in 1609 and 1610.

Kepler, Johannes (1571-1630)

Astronomy HyperText Book: Planetary Motion - containing animations of Kepler's laws.

Johannes Kepler & Edmond Halley: Pioneers in Astronomy - basic biographical information about Kepler and Halley.

Johannes Kepler: The Laws of Planetary Motion

Kepler

Kepler's Conjecture - Sir Walter Raleigh started a mathematical quest which to this day remains unsolved.

Links Sites Relating to Kepler - from NASA's Kepler Mission web site.

Newton and Kepler

Ponce de Leon - short bio of the European who discovered Florida in his search for the "fountain of youth."