Thank the Gods for Hygiene
Did you know that the word Hygiene comes from Hygieia, the Greek goddess of good health and the daughter of Asclepius, god of medicine!
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Did you know that Galileo was the first scientist to measure heart rate?
At a young age, while watching a lamp swinging in the Pisa Cathedral, Galileo discovered that each full swing of a pendulum takes exactly the same amount of time regardless of whether the arc of the swing is wide or narrow. He used his own pulse to measure the time of each of the lamp’s
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Scientist rebel
Galileo (1564-1642) challenged some of the fundamental knowledge of his time, providing proof that certain long held beliefs were incorrect, and paving the way for a better scientific future. In his time it was accepted that the Earth was at the centre of the universe and the planets, including the sun, rotated around it. Thanks