Who is this Famous Sailor?

For cybersmart (on Monday), we had to search for various things, like rovers, meaning for words, what are synonyms & antonyms, and more. It was a fun time researching things that we don't know.

Finally, the teacher had said to research about a famous New Zealander, Sir Peter Blake, which is one of New Zealand's most famous sailor (yachtsman) which has won the Whitbread Round the World and America's Cup. We had to make a biography about him.

Peter Blake
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Sir Peter Blake

Sir Peter Blake which was a famous New Zealander which is born on 1 October 1948 in Auckland. Peter Blake grew up in a wooden bungalow in Bayswater near Auckland's Waitemata Harbour. He had educated in Bayswater Primary School, Belmont Intermediate, Takapuna Grammar School and Auckland Technical Institute, 1966 to 1969 - earned New Zealand Certificate of Engineering.

Center: Seamaster
Right: Peter Blake
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Peter Blake coming back to New Zealand after a historic win
in America's Cup.
Credit: https://teara.govt.nz/

Peter Blake is famous because he was the only sailor to take part in the first five Whitbread Round the World races. He lead New Zealand by having two America’s Cup victories (1995 and 2000). He is the world's most famous sailor because he went more faster and further than any other sailor in the world. Peter Blake has participated in two events:

• Whitbread Round the World - 1989-90 - Steinlager 2 (boat name)
• America’s Cup - 1995 America’s Cup - Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron (boat name)
• Location: San Diego, United States
• Dates: 6-13 May 1995
• Yacht: Black Magic - NZL 32
• Role: Sail Trimmer
• America’s Cup - 2000 America’s Cup - did not sail with the team, acting as on-shore manager.

Sir Peter Blake has won two awards, Laureus World Sports Award for Sport for Good and Laureus World Sports Award for Lifetime Achievement. Also, he has written books about his adventure:

• Peter Blake: Adventure
• The Last Great Adventure of Sir Peter Blake: With Seamaster and Blakexpeditions from Antarctica to the Amazon: Sir Peter Blake's Logbooks
• An Introduction to Sailing
• Blake's Odyssey: The Round the World Race with Ceramco New Zealand
• Lion: The Round the World Race with Lion New Zealand 
• Peter Blake's Yachting Book 
• Peter Blake: Autobiography

Peter Blake in the Amazon
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After Sir Peter Blake's career in sailing, he went to do an environmental exploration trip in (Amazon) Macapá, Amapá, Brazil, South America, to fight over pollution and global warming for the United Nations (UN). Seamaster (Peter Blake's boat) was about to leave the Amazon, on the night of 5 December 2001, a group of pirates had attacked Seamaster, they were wearing crash helmets and balaclavas. One of the pirates had a gun to the head of a crewmember. Peter Blake was shot on the back while defending his crew. Peter Blake's funeral was at St Thomas à Becket Church, Warblington, Hampshire, England and he was buried there.

I hope you like my post about Peter Blake. Comment down below if you have learnt something new. Have a cool day!! Bye!!

Who is this Famous Astronomer?

For this post, I had to research about a famous astronomer named Galileo Galilei and we will find out why Galileo Galilei is a famous astronomer? Comment down what you have learnt. Have a cool day!! Bye!!

Galileo Galilei

My Galileo Galilei Drawing

Galileo Galilei was born on 15 February 1564 in a city of Pisa, Tuscany, Italy. The family moved to Florence in the early 1570s. In the middle of teens, Galileo attended a school in Vallombrosa, near Florence. Then in 1581, Galileo matriculated (to be enrolled at a college or university) at the University of Pisa, where he was to study medicine. But he became enamoured (crazy about) mathematics and decided to make the mathematical subjects, with philosophy. Galileo after began to prepare himself to teach Aristotelian philosophy and mathematics.

In 1585, Galileo left the university without having a degree. For several years he gave private lessons in the mathematical subjects in Siena and Florence. He also began his studies in motion, which he studied for the next two decades (20 years).

In 1588, Galileo applied for the chair of mathematics at the University of Bologna, but he was unsuccessful. As a result, after a year, he obtained the chair of mathematics at the University of Pisa in 1589. There from to his first biographer, Vincenzo Viviani (1622-1703), Galileo demonstrated by dropping objects of different weights from the top of the famous Leaning Tower. His sponsor or backer secured him the chair of mathematics at the University of Padua, where he taught from 1592 until 1610.

But Galileo's salary was much higher there, his responsibilities as the head of the family (because his father had died in 1591). His university salary could not cover all his cost. He sold a Proportional Compass or sector. Because of those financial problems, he did not marry, but he did have an arrangement with a Venetian woman, Marina Gambia.

Telescopic Discoveries

At that point, Galileo's career changed a lot. In the spring of 1609, he heard that in the Netherlands an instrument had been invented that showed far things as though they were nearby. By the court cases and errors, he quickly figured out the secret of the invention and made his own three-powered spyglass from lenses for sale in spectacle markers' shops. Also, he quickly figured out how to improve the instrument. He taught himself the art of lens in a difficult situation and produced an increasingly powerful telescope. In August of that year, he presented an eight powered instrument to the Venetian Senate (Padua was in the Venetian Republic. Galileo was rewarded with a lifetime manner and a doubling of his salary. Galileo was now one of the highest paid professors at the university. In December he drew the Moon's phases as seen through the telescope, showing that the moon is not smooth. As being thought it is rough and uneven. In January 1610 he discovered four moons of Jupiter. He also found that the telescope showed many more stars that are visible with the naked eye. Those discoveries were shocking, and Galileo quickly produced a little book, named Sidereus Nuncius (The Sidereal Messenger). He dedicated the book to Cosimo II de Medici (1590-1621). He named the moons of Jupiter after the Medici family: "Medicean Stars". Before he left Padua he had discovered the appearance of Saturn, later to be shown as caused by a ring surrounding it. In Florence, he discovered that Venus goes through phases just as the Moon does. 

Galileo was then 70 years old. Still, he kept on working. In Siena, he had begun a new book on the sciences of motion and the strength of materials. There he wrote up his unpublished studies that have been interrupted by the interest in the telescope in 1609. The book was active out of Italy and published in Leiden, Netherlands, in 1638, under the title Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche intorno a due nuove scienze attenenti alla meccanica (Italian) (Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences). By then Galileo had become blind, and he spend his time working with a young student. Vincenzo Viviani, who was with him when he died on January 8, 1642.

What I've Learnt?

• Galileo left university without a degree.
• Galileo named Jupiter's moons after the Medici family.
• Galileo had learnt more subjects than mathematics.
• Galileo was blind after 70 years of age.
• Galileo was crazy about mathematics subjects.
• Galileo had been to different universities.
• Galileo discovered Venus going through phases just like the Moon.
• Galileo had written books about what he had learnt.

Who is this Famous Psychologist?

For this post, I had to research about a famous psychologist named Ivan Pavlov. Also, know why is he a famous psychologist?

Ivan Pavlov

His Early Life

Ivan Pavlov was born on 14 September, 1849 in a small village named Ryazan, Russia. His earliest studies were most focused on theology. He soon abandoned religious studies and devoted himself to the study of science.

In 1870, he began studying the natural sciences at the University of Saint Petersburg. 

Pavlov's Career and his Discoveries

Pavlov's primary interests were the study of psychology and natural sciences.

There had been a famous experiment that he had done on his dogs. Pavlov's experiment has played a critical role in the discovery of one of the most important concepts in psychology. Actually, his discovery was quite by accident.

How did this experiment happen?

Well, he trained his dog and when he rings the bell the dogs run to the food and eat their food. When Pavlov rings the bell the dogs know that the food is ready to eat. Pavlov's experiments worked well and he was noted as the Russian physiologist who went to win the 1904 Nobel Prize for his work studying digestive processes.

Below is a video of Ivan Pavlov's dogs.



Pavlov died on 27 February, 1936.