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...ICIAN. 61 EUCLID (325 - 270 BC) - GREEK MATHEMATICIAN 61 APOLLONIUS (262 - 190 BC) - GREEK MATHEMATICIAN 61 ERATOSTHENES (276 - 196 BC) - GREEK ASTRONOMER AND MATHEMATICIAN 62 CLAUDIUS PTOLEMY (100 - 170 AD) - GREEK ASTRONOMER AND MATHEMATICIAN 62 THE MATHEMATICS OF THE MEDIEVAL AGE 63 THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NUMBER THEORY AND MATHEMATICS 64 THE THEORY OF...

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... collection of poems, originally written in the Persian language and of which there are about a thousand, attributed to the Persian mathematician and astronomer Omar Khayyám (1048 – 1123). Rubaiyat (derived from the Arabic root word for 4) means quatrains: verses of four lines. (summary from Wikipedia.)...

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...and mountains seem to move as the centuries go by? Anna is a zoologist, studying the changes that animals have undergone in the new world. Greg is an astronomer, wondering why the speed of light appears to be slowing down. Together with a number of friends they go on an expedition to explore unknown areas of the New Earth. Will they also solve the mystery about what hap...

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...ater, air and fire. DEMOCRITUS (470-380 BC) Greek Philosopher 22 The founder of the atomic theory of antiquity. CLAUDIUS PTOLEMY (100-170) Greek Astronomer 24 Proponent of the geocentric theory of our solar system with the Earth and not the Sun at its center. ABSTRACT ON THE GENESIS OF AN ORDERLY AND SYSTEMATIC UNIVERSE 25 THE ALCHEMY OF ANTIQUITY AND THE MIDDLE ...

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...The plot concerns two – literally starcrossed – lovers: Swithin St. Cleeve, a very young amateur astronomer, and Viviette Constantine, an unhappily married and abandoned woman 8 or 9 years his senior. Each night Swithin climbs the old tower of the title, in the grounds of the Constantine estate. Lady Constantine, whose h...

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... GREAT IDEAS THAT REVOLUTIONIZED OUR SCIENTIFIC WORLD 16 DEMOCRITUS (470 - 380 BC) Greek Philosopher 16 NICHOLAS COPERNICUS (1473 - 1543) Polish Astronomer 17 GALILEO GALILEI (1564 - 1642) Italian Mathematician and Astronomer 18 RENE DESCARTES (1596 - 1650) French Mathematician and Philosopher. 19 ISAAC NEWTON (1642 - 1727) English Scientist and Mathematician 20 A...

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...Garrett Putnam Serviss (1851-1929) was an astronomer, popularizer of astronomy, and early science fiction writer. Serviss showed a talent for explaining scientific details in a way that made them clear to the ordinary reader. Serviss's favorite topic was astronomy, a...

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...Our intention is, that Timaeus, who is the most of an astronomer amongst us, and has made the nature of the universe his special study, should speak first, beginning with the generation of the world and going down to the creation of man... 'Timaeus' is usually regarded as one of...

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...Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) was a Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer. In the Western world he is most famous for his many rubáiyát (quatrains), a four line rhyming stanza, which were popularized in an extensively reworked collection in English by Edward Fitzgerald, the first edition...

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...okline, Massachusetts who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926. Lowell was born into Brookline's prominent Lowell family, sister to astronomer Percival Lowell and Harvard president Abbott Lawrence Lowell. She never attended college because her family did not consider that proper for a woman, but she compensated with avid reading and near-obsessive book co...

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...w New England. In 1779 he was appointed as one of the first trustees of the University of Pennsylvania. He also had a reputation as a philosopher and astronomer in his time, and was a member of the American Philosophical Society. (Introduction by Maria Therese)...

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...h the other planets, it is revolving around a central fire. Aristarchus, a Greek Astronomer (310-250 BC), was more precise. He suggested that the... ...ested a correct method to calculate the distance between the two. Another Greek astronomer, Eratosthenes (276-196 BC), measured the earth's circ...

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... it becomes light. Our eyes receive this light and we are delighted by it. Astronomers tells us that the light of a star that has already died can st...

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...overnment. The best way to fnd them is by using a similar men- tality that astronomers use to fnd black holes. Find the ripples that they cause. Find...

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... sun which enlightens us; because it hath been demonstrated by very many famous astronomers, that our sun, situated at an equal distance from us as ...

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...cient system of Ptolemy; I ask this explanation of the most celebrated philosophers and astronomers, Egyptian, Greek, Arabian, and Latin. I see the ...

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...mperceptible that the world refrains from contemplating it. After all, an astronomer has no perception of the stars and the planets, but only of the...

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...ips Patroling Barnegat After the Sea-Ship BY THE ROADSIDE A Boston Ballad Europe A Hand-Mirror Gods Germs Thoughts When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer Perfections O Me! O Life! To a President I Sit and Look Out To Rich Givers The Dalliance of the Eagles Roaming in Thought A Farm Picture A Child's Amaze The Runner Beautiful Women Mother and Babe Thoug...

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...ems, originally written in Persian and of which there are about a thousand, attributed to Omar Khayyám (1048–1131), a Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer. A Persian ruba'i is a two-line stanza with two parts (or hemis-techs) per line, hence the word Rubáiyát (derived from the Arabic root word for four), meaning quatrains. The translations that are best known in Engl...

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...d, because he foretold the weather and had cures for aches and pains without a doctor?s diploma. But we know now that he was only a mathematician and astronomer, all for inventing military engines. The brother and sister were great friends in their youth, when he had his right arm to defend her reputation with; and she would have done anything on earth to please him....

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...t a doctor’s diploma. But we know now that he was only a mathematician and astronomer, all for inventing military engines. The brother and sister were... ...cy with such a lady was rather like the exposure of the silver moon to the astronomer’s telescope. The Dame will have nought of an interview and collo...