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PYTHAGORAS

Pythagoras was a Greek philosopher, born on the island of Samos. They can date his life back to between 580-520 BC As a young man he moved to the Greek city of Croton, where he developed a philosophical and religious school which made many outstanding contributions to mathematics, astrology, and music.

Pythagoras is most famous for his Pythagorean Theory relating the lengths of the sides of a right triangle.

The Pythagoreans felt that the physician role was helping the body to be properly strung, and tuned to a certain pitch. It is believed the Pythagoras and his followers were vegetarians. The Pythagoreans believed that animals and man were on the same journey together, and that man was only a little further along on this path than his animal companions.

They believed that that souls from one human or animal are transferred to a new human or animal after death.Pythagoras favorite colour was purple.That is where they got the national simbol for gay.He was gay.But he had 5 children with his wife (Theano).Pythagoras of samos or pythagoras the samian,pythagoras patel was called 1 of the greatest mathematicians on earth.

Leonardo Da Vinci

Hi I'm Georgia and I am working with Jaani and Alex. For our project, we are working on Leonardo Da Vinci. We had four weeks to do this and now we will show you some fact's about him.

Facts:

Leonardo Da Vinci may well have been the greatest inventor in history, yet he had very little effect on the technology of his time. Da Vinci drew sketches and diagrams of his inventions, which he preserved in his notebooks, but either he lost interest in building them or was never able to convince one of his wealthy friends to finance construction of his designs. As a result, almost none of da Vinci's inventions were built during his lifetime. And, because he never published his diagrams, nobody else knew about them until his notebooks were discovered long after his death.

That's a pity, because da Vinci's designs were spectacularly ahead of his time. If they had been built, they might have revolutionized the history of technology, though many of them may have been impossible to build with the tools available in the 15th and 16th centuries. In recent years, however, engineers have begun to construct models of da Vinci's amazing machines and most of them actually work.

His most famous inventions:

Da Vinci is most famous now for his inventions: his bicycle, airplane, helicopter, and parachute were all some 500 years ahead of their time. However, he also showed remarkable insight in the world of science. The only remains of this work are his notebooks, now among the most valuable documents in the world. The thousands of surviving pages reveal the most eclectic of minds. He wrote and drew about subjects like geology, anatomy, flight, gravity and optics, often going from subject to subject on a single page in his left-handed mirror writing.

This is his Parachute that he invented.

This is Leonardo Da Vinci.

Richard Pearse

Hi this is Madison, Anton and Daniel and we are doing a project on Richard Pearse. This is some of the information we gathered.

Richard Pearse was the first person to fly a plane. Richard was born on the 3rd December 1877 in Temuka, New Zealand. He died on 29th July 1952 at the age of 75 in Christchurch.

Richard Pearse was the first person to make a plane and fly it. He flew & landed a powered plane on 31 March 1903. He flew the plane 50 yards. He spent most of his lifetime building light, powerful aero-engines for his numerous attempts of flying.The last planes he made are in the museum of transport and technology in Auckland. It is probably impossible to establish without doubt if Pearse flew before the wright brothers.

On January the 1st Richard was admitted to a mental hospital, 28 days later he died. He died of a heart attack, he was never married. Now you know about Richard Pearse.

Archimedes

ARCHIMEDES

Archimedes was born in 287 B.C. in the port of Syracuse, Sicily in the colony of Magna Graecia. His father was Phidias, who was an astronomer but no one knows anything about him. Back then, with no paper or blackboards, Archimedes used dust, ashes or any other available surface to draw his pictures. He used to get so into his work that sometimes he forgot to eat. It is said that he drew figures on his body after having a bath. According to the Greek historian John Tzetzes, who was famous for his research on Byzantinne Greek era, Archimedes lived for 75 years.

Archimedes discovered pi. He invented the Archimedes screw - a screw-shaped machine that raised water from a lower to a higher level. Archimedes also invented the catupult, the lever, the compound pulley, and the burning mirror (a bunch of mirrors that burned the boots and ships of invading armies by using the sun's rays).

A sphere and cylinder were placed on the tomb of Archimedes at his request.

The last words attributed to Archimedes are "Do not disturb my circles" (Greek: μὴ μου τοὺς κύκλους τάραττε)

By Alesha, Meg and Dylan

Ernest Rutherford

My name is Jiahao and I researched Ernest Rutherford with Sophie and Jacob. This is what we found out about him:He was born in Brightwater on the 30 of August 1871 Nelson, New Zealand. He went to Havelock School and then the Nelson College for Boys and won a Scholarship to Canterbury College, University of New Zealand where he studied electrical technology.

He discovered two types of radioactivity, alpha decay and beta decay. He later identified the alpha particle as helium atom and he split the atom. He demonstrated that radioactivity was the disintegration of the atom into other types of atoms. He also invented a way to detect electromagnetic waves. Ernest Rutherford discovered that the nucleus of and atom has a positive charge and discovered the evidence to show the electron field surrounding the nucleus in an atom.

Rutherford blasted a narrow beam of alpha particles onto the gold foil, one atom thin. He first suspected that all of the alpha particles would pass through the thin foil, yet he realized that some alpha particcted back

Marie Curie

Hi, my name is Joshua. I was working with janie & hannah on marie curie. Marie Curie was the daughter of a secondary-school teacher. She received a general education in local schools and some scientific training from her father. In 1891 she went to Paris to continue studies at the Sorbonne where she obtained Licentiateships in Physics and she gained her Doctor of Science Degree in 1903. In 1906 her husband Pierre Curie died in a tragic car accident and she then took his place as Professor of General Physics in Facility of Sciences, this was the first time a woman had held this position. She was also appointed Director of the Curie Laboratory in the Radium Institute of the University of Paris.

When Marie Curie realized that some uranium and thorium compounds had stronger radiation than uranium, she made the following hypothesis: there must be an unknown element in the compound, which had a stronger radiation than uranium or thorium. Her work got the interest of her husband, Pierre Curie, who stopped his own research on crystals and joined the research with his wife. And Marie was proven right: in 1898 the Marie and her husband discovered two new radioactive elements: radium (named after the Latin word for ray) and polonium (named after Marie's home country, Poland).

Radium: On 26^th December 1898, Marie Curie and her husband Pierre Curie announced that they had discovered the existence of a second element, which they named ‘Radium’ for its intense radioactivity.

Polonium: In July 1898 the Curie’s published a paper together saying they had discovered a new element, which they called ‘Polonium’ in honor of her birthplace Poland.

RADIOACTIVITY: Radioactivity is important today because it is used to kill cancerous tissue.

POLONIUM: Polonium is important today because it can provide thermoelectric power in space satellites.

RADIUM: Radium is very important today because it is used in cancer treatment, medicines, preservatives in food and luminous pant.

Statistics

In statistics, we had to ask questions. My group asked, ' What do students use to wrap their lunch.' The answers were, gladwrap, tinfoil, containers, zip lock bags and other. Other contained Paper bags, non-wrapped and anything else. We went around classrooms, asking our main question, and each person had two answers. We then recorded the results in a talley chart. Later on, the teacher got the lap-tops and we created a chart, with the main question, the raw data, two different charts, the Hypothisis, and the conclusions. The teacher (Mrs Parker) then printed out our sheet. It looks really good:)

Created by Aura Mintrom.

Our research project

Our group is studying Albert Einstein and his life. We found out that Albert was born in 1879. He had three children. The first, Albert and his wife, Mileva, adopted it out. Their daughter was named Lieserl Einstein. They had their first son in 1904, named Hans. Eduard Einstein was their second son, born in 1910. In 1919, Albert & Mileva divorced and Albert Einstein remarried almost straight away with his cousin, Elsa Lowenthal. Elsa then died in 1936, from a sudden illness. Albert Einstein died in 1955, at the age of 79. His brain was removed, and given to a doctor called Mr. Harvey. The brain can now be found at Princeton Hospital.

Made by Kylie, Ryan & Aura.

Matariki

This week, on the 21st June, New Zealand will celebrate Matariki.

What is Matariki?
Matariki is the Māori name for the star cluster known as the Pleiades.
Traditionally for Māori when it appeared just before dawn in late May or early June, it signalled the start of the Māori New Year. For some tribes, the rising of Puanga (Rigel in Orion) signals the start of the New Year.

When is Matariki?
Different tribes celebrated Matariki at different times. For some it was when Matariki rose in May/June. For others it was celebrated at the first new moon, or full moon, following the rising of Matariki. In the 21st century it is the new moon following the rising of Matariki that signals the New Year.

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