Read the Chapter in the book Exploring the Invisible: Art, Science, and the Spiritual (2020). Give short definitions/discussions (a few sentences) of each term or concept; describe the essence of the contribution made by each philosopher, scientist, and artist.
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Chapter 8: The Culmination of Newtons Clockwork Universe
ASSIGNMENT 8
William Herschel, discovery of Neptune, Michael Faraday, James Clerk Maxwell, electromagnetism as a composite wave, electromagnetic spectrum, probability, determinism, Cynicism, Diogenes, Morse code, telegraph, telephone, trans-Atlantic telegraph cable, wireless radio transmission, spectrography, astrophysics, Futurism, Marie Sklodowska Curie, alpha particles and beta particles, radioactive atom, electron, proton, neutron, Periodic Table of Elements, Der Blaue Reiter (Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, and Paul Klee), Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
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SCIENCE MUSEUM REPORT. 3-5 pages long.
Please take virtual tours of science museums and zoos.
Watch the trailer of the current show in the American Museum of Natural Historys planetarium: “Worlds beyond Earth”. Summarize the content.
https://www.amnh.org/explore/videos/at-the-museum (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)
Take a virtual tour of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Pick a few interesting displays and describe them.
https://naturalhistory.si.edu/visit/virtual-tour (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)
Go to the San Diego Zoo, visit a few animals, and describe them.
https://animals.sandiegozoo.org/live-cams (Links to an external site.) (Links to an external site.)
Got to Yosemite National Park and describe what you see there.
https://www.virtualyosemite.org/about-virtual-yosemite/