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===**WHAT SCIENTIFIC ADVANCEMENTS, EXPLORATIONS, DISCOVERIES, AND TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENTS WERE MADE DURING SHAKESPEARE'S LIFETIME? WHO WAS SIR FRANCES DRAKE? WHAT IS HIS LEGACY? WHO WERE FAMOUS ASTRONOMERS, INVENTORS, NAVIGATORS, EXPLORERS, AND SO ON WORKING DURING THE TIME? WHAT ARE THEIR LEGACIES? Answer Prepared by: David P **===

Science in Shakespeare The Shakespearian era was a time of innovation. The renaissance brought men that had done well in mathematics, physics, astronomy, medicine and other subjects. Many inventions and patents were being made, which was believed to be the start of science and modern technology. Sir Francis Drake became the first englishman to Sail around the world. He left from England in 1577 on a trading expedition to the Nile. Instead, he soon found himself on the coast of South America. From there, he made his way up the coast of America, until he reached the North American Northwest, near the current states of Washington and Oregon. Continuing Westward, Drake’s crew sailed past the indian Ocean, passed the coast of African, and returned back to england in 1580. He spent 3 years of hid life spanning 36,000 miles across the globe. This era was truly a time of advances in world exploration, medicine, and the study of the inverse.

The invention of the printing innovated the way people heard news, by making it easy to spread knowledge abroad in every land. Galileo had created the telescope, which recorded the first observations of the moon. You could only see as far as you could with a pair of opera glasses, but it was still a major breakthrough in studying astronomy and our constellations. Some inventions of this time period are still used today, and were major breakthroughs back then. These increases in knowledge and technological advances lead to more curiosity about astronomy. A man known as Copernicus founded modern astronomy. He believed in a heliocentric universe, which stated that the sun was the center of the universe. The Catholic Church did not believe this theory, and challenged Copernicus, claiming that the earth was the center of the universe. In the mean time, Johannes Kepler developed a system of laws, which govern the movements of the planets. He proved that planets don’t travel in perfect circles, but in fact they move in ellipses. This helped us understand more about planets, and their behavior. During this era, astronomy played a big part in the development of future space travel, and was the foundation for modern astronomy. As technology and modern science began to expand and grow larger, so did the knowledge of the human race. This era was the beginning of a vast array of knowledge that swept across the land. Filling everyone’s head with new theories and laws. Overall, it was this time period that was the beginning of the rapidly growing knowledge that the entire world shares. 

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(Below) is Galileo's model of the first telescope. (Below) Is Johannes Kepler, the man who created the laws of planetary motion

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