Giambattista (Gianbattista) Benedetti (August 14, 1530 – January 20, 1590) was an Italian mathematician from Venice who wrote La gnomonica. Events 1183 - Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures Events 250 - Emperor Decius begins a widespread persecution of Christians in Rome. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Venice ( Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venesia or Venexia) is a city in Northern Italy, the capital of the He was a Copernican who determined that falling objects fall at the same rate in 1553, a discovery often credited to Galileo. Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564 &ndash 8 January 1642 was a Tuscan ( Italian) Physicist, Mathematician, Astronomer, and Philosopher This is called the "equality of fall rates. "
In a letter to Cipriano de Rore dated from around 1563, Benedetti proposed a new theory of the cause of consonance, arguing that since sound consists of air waves or vibrations, in the more consonant intervals the shorter, more frequent waves concurred with the longer, more frequent waves at regular intervals. Cypriano de Rore or Cipriano de Rore (1515 or 1516 – between September 11 and September 20 1565 was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance, active Sound' is Vibration transmitted through a Solid, Liquid, or Gas; particularly sound means those vibrations composed of Frequencies Isaac Beeckman and Marin Mersenne both adopted this theory in the next century. Isaac Beeckman ( December 10, 1588 - May 19, 1637) was a Dutch Philosopher and Scientist. Marin Mersenne, Marin Mersennus or le Père Mersenne ( September 8, 1588 &ndash September 1, 1648) was When they sought Descartes' opinion on Benedetti's theory, Descartes declined to judge the goodness of consonances by such a rational method. Descartes argued that the ear prefers one or another according to the musical context rather than because of any concordance of vibrations. The ear is the sense organ that detects Sounds The Vertebrate ear shows a common biology from Fish to Humans with variations [1]
In 1572, the Jesuit Jean Taisner published from the press of Johann Birkmann of Cologne a work entitled Opusculum perpetua memoria dignissimum, de natura magnetis et ejus effectibus, Item de motu continuo. The Society of Jesus ( Latin: Societas Iesu, SJ and SI or SJ, SI) is a Catholic religious order Jean Taisner ( Taisnier) (in Latin, Johannes Taisnerius) was a priest This is considered a piece of plagiarism, as Taisnier presents, as though his own, the Epistola de magnete of Peter of Maricourt and a treatise on the fall of bodies by Benedetti. Plagiarism is the unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one's own original work Peter of Maricourt ( Peter Peregrinus of Maricourt; French Pierre de Maricourt; Latin Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt) (fl