NEW WORLDS: MICRO AND MACRO
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 466.
In the 17th century science just (to begin) to make its mark in the world, and the greatest minds of Europe (to be) eager to learn more about the natural world. This (to be) the time when Newton (to discover) gravity and the basic rules that (to govern) every movement in the universe; the time, when Newton and Leibniz (to create) the mathematics of calculus; when Hooke and Leeuwenhoek (to discover) the world of microscopic life. Huygens (to be) at the forefront of this scientific revolution, and (to live) at its hub in Northwest Europe.
When Huygens (to be) a growing boy in the Netherlands, papal authorities in Rome (to threaten) Galileo with torture for suggestion that the Earth might not be the fixed centre of the universe.
Many scientists of that period (to have) wide range of interests. Hooke, Huygens and Leeuwenhoek (to make) their own microscopes and (to make) important discoveries in the microscopic world. Newton, Hooke and Huygens (to make) their own telescopes, especially Huygens whose telescopes (to be) superior to anything that had been done before. With them he (to discover) Saturn's moon Titan and the nature of Saturn's rings, (to map) the surface of Mars for the first time, (to identify) stars within the Orion nebula and (to discover) a number of other nebulae.
4. Match the names from the column A with the words and word combinations from the column B. Then make up sentences:
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