Encyclopedia - Heliocentrism: Encyclopedia - Heliocentrism
In astronomy, heliocentrism is the theory that the Sun is at the center of the Universe and/or the Solar System. The word is derived from...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Heliocentrism: Encyclopedia Ii - Heliocentrism - Religious Disputes Over Heliocentrism
As early as the time of Aristarchus, the heliocentric idea was denounced as being against religion. The issue did not assume any importan...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Heliocentrism: Encyclopedia Ii - Heliocentrism - Development Of The Idea
To anyone who stands and looks at the sky, it seems clear that the earth stays in one place while everything in the sky goes around once ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aristarchus: Encyclopedia - Aristarchus
Aristarchus (310 BC - circa 230 BC) was a Greek astronomer and mathematician, born in Samos, Greece. He is the first recorded person to p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aristarchus: Encyclopedia Ii - Aristarchus - Heliocentrism
The only work of Aristarchus which has survived to the present time, On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon, is based on a geocen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nicolaus Copernicus: Encyclopedia - Nicolaus Copernicus
Mikołaj Kopernik (February 19, 1473 – May 24, 1543), more commonly known by the Latin form Nicolaus Copernicus, was a Polish[1] astrol...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tycho Brahe: Encyclopedia - Tycho Brahe
Tycho Brahe, born Tyge Ottesen Brahe (December 14, 1546 – October 24, 1601), was a Danish nobleman astrologer and astronomer as well as...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nicolaus Copernicus: Encyclopedia Ii - Nicolaus Copernicus - The Copernican Heliocentric System
Nicolaus Copernicus - Earlier theories. Much has been written about earlier heliocentric theories. Philolaus (4th century BC) was one o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium: Encyclopedia - De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium
De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (English: On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, Polish: O obrotach sfer niebieskich) is the sem...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1633: Encyclopedia - 1633
1633 - Events. February 13 - Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition. March 1 - Samuel de Champlain recla...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orbital Node: Encyclopedia - Orbital Node
An orbital node is one of the two points where an inclined orbit crosses a plane of reference (e.g. the equator for geocentric orbits, th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aryabhata: Encyclopedia - Aryabhata
Aryabhata (आर्यभट) Āryabhaṭa) is the first of the great astronomers of the classical age of India. He was born in 476 AD i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nicolaus Copernicus: Encyclopedia Ii - Nicolaus Copernicus - The Copernican Heliocentric System
Nicolaus Copernicus - Earlier theories. Much has been written about earlier heliocentric theories. Philolaus (4th century BC) was one o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tycho Brahe: Encyclopedia Ii - Tycho Brahe - Early Years
Tycho Brahe was born Tyge Ottesen Brahe (de Knudstrup), adopting the Latinised form Tycho at around age fifteen (sometimes written Tÿcho...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tycho Brahe: Encyclopedia Ii - Tycho Brahe - Family Life
In 1572, in Knudstrup, Tycho fell in love with Kirsten Jørgensdatter, a commoner whose father, Pastor Jorgen Hansen, was the Lutheran cl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tycho Brahe: Encyclopedia Ii - Tycho Brahe - Nova
On November 11, 1572, Tycho observed (from Herrevad Abbey) a very bright star which unexpectedly appeared in the constellation Cassiopeia...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tycho Brahe: Encyclopedia Ii - Tycho Brahe - Uraniborg Stjerneborg And Benátky Nad Jizerou
King Frederick II of Denmark and Norway, impressed with Tycho's 1572 observations, financed the construction of two observatories for Tyc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tycho Brahe: Encyclopedia Ii - Tycho Brahe - Tycho And Astronomy
Tycho was the preeminent observational astronomer of the pre-telescopic period, and his observations of stellar and planetary positions a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tycho Brahe: Encyclopedia Ii - Tycho Brahe - Tycho And Astrology
Like the fifteenth century astronomer Regiomontanus, Tycho Brahe appears to have accepted astrological prognostications on the principle ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tycho Brahe: Encyclopedia Ii - Tycho Brahe - Tycho's Death
Tycho died on October 24, 1601, several days after straining his bladder during a banquet. It has been said that to leave the banquet bef...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nicolaus Copernicus: Encyclopedia Ii - Nicolaus Copernicus - Copernicus And Copernicanism
Copernicus' theory is of extraordinary importance in the history of human knowledge. Many authors suggest that only Euclid's geometry, Is...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nicolaus Copernicus: Encyclopedia Ii - Nicolaus Copernicus - Quotes
Goethe: "Of all discoveries and opinions, none may have exerted a greater effect on the human spirit than the doctrine of Copernicus. Th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nicolaus Copernicus: Encyclopedia Ii - Nicolaus Copernicus - Biography
Copernicus was born in 1473 at Toruń (Thorn) in a Polish province of Royal Prussia. His father Nikolas, a citizen of Kraków (Cracow), t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nicolaus Copernicus: Encyclopedia Ii - Nicolaus Copernicus - Copernicus And Copernicanism
Copernicus' theory is of extraordinary importance in the history of human knowledge. Many authors suggest that only Euclid's geometry, Is...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nicolaus Copernicus: Encyclopedia Ii - Nicolaus Copernicus - Quotes
Goethe: "Of all discoveries and opinions, none may have exerted a greater effect on the human spirit than the doctrine of Copernicus. Th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nicolaus Copernicus: Encyclopedia Ii - Nicolaus Copernicus - Grave
In August 2005, a team of Polish archeologists led by Jerzy Gąssowski, head of an archaeology and anthropology institute in Pułtusk, in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nicolaus Copernicus: Encyclopedia Ii - Nicolaus Copernicus - Biography
Copernicus was born in 1473 at Toruń (Thorn) in the Polish province of Royal Prussia. His father Nikolas, a citizen of Kraków, then the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nicolaus Copernicus: Encyclopedia Ii - Nicolaus Copernicus - Biography
Copernicus was born in 1473 at Toruń (Thorn) in a Polish province of Royal Prussia. His father Nikolas, a citizen of Cracow (Kraków), t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nicolaus Copernicus: Encyclopedia Ii - Nicolaus Copernicus - Grave
In August 2005, a team of Polish archeologists led by Jerzy Gąssowski, head of an archaeology and anthropology institute in Pułtusk, in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aryabhata: Encyclopedia Ii - Aryabhata - Overview
-Accurately computed pi -Explained solar eclipses -Expounded a heliocentric model of the solar system and accurately computed the length...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gravitational Constant: Encyclopedia Ii - Gravitational Constant - The Gm Product
The product is the standard gravitational parameter , according to the case also called the geocentric or heliocentric gravitational con...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sumer: Encyclopedia Ii - Sumer - Legacy
The Sumerians are perhaps remembered most for their many inventions. Many authorities credit them with the invention of the wheel and the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gravitational Constant: Encyclopedia Ii - Gravitational Constant - The Gm Product
The product is the standard gravitational parameter , according to the case also called the geocentric or heliocentric gravitational con...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Horoscope: Encyclopedia Ii - Horoscope - Introduction
Using an ephemeris and a table of houses an astrologer calculates the geocentric positions of the Sun, Moon, and planets for a specific t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aryabhata: Encyclopedia Ii - Aryabhata - Aryabhatiya
His book, the Āryabhatīya, presented astronomical and mathematical theories in which the Earth was taken to be spinning on its axis and...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Astrophysics: Encyclopedia Ii - Astrophysics - History
Although astronomy is as old as recorded history, it was long separated from the study of physics. In the Aristotelian worldview, the cel...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Trial Of Galileo: Encyclopedia Ii - Trial Of Galileo - First Meetings With Theological Authorities
In 1615 the attacks seemed to Galileo to have become dangerous, and he determined to go to Rome as soon as his health permitted, as it di...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Christian Thinkers In Science: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Christian Thinkers In Science - Negatives And Critical Appraisals
List of Christian thinkers in science - Science or Scientists repressed by Christians. The Academy of Athens Galileo Galilei Heliocent...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Scientific Revolution: Encyclopedia Ii - Scientific Revolution - Theoretical Developments
In 1543 Copernicus' work on the heliocentric model of the solar system was published, in which he tried to prove that the sun was the cen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mediocrity Principle: Encyclopedia Ii - Mediocrity Principle - The Earth Is A Not-very-exceptional Planet
The traditional formulation of the Copernican mediocrity principle is usually played out in the following way: Ancients once thought that...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Criticism Of Christianity: Encyclopedia Ii - Criticism Of Christianity - Criticisms Regarding Christianity And Science
Christianity has sometimes had an antagonistic relationship with science. Perhaps the best known example of this is when Galileo Galilei ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica: Encyclopedia Ii - Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica - The Historical Context
Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica - The beginnings of the scientific revolution. Nicholas Copernicus had firmly moved the Ea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Galileo Galilei: Encyclopedia Ii - Galileo Galilei - Church Controversy
Psalms 93 and 104, and Ecclesiastes 1:5 speak of the motion of celestial bodies and the suspended position of the earth. Galileo defended...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Astronomy: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Astronomy - The Copernican Revolution
The renaissance came to astronomy with the work of Copernicus, who proposed a heliocentric system. His work was defended, expanded upon a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Rosetta Space Probe: Encyclopedia Ii - Rosetta Space Probe - Major Events And Discoveries
Rosetta space probe - 2004. March 2 - ESA's Rosetta mission is successfully launched at 07:17 GMT (08:17 Central European Time). The l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modern Geocentrism: Encyclopedia Ii - Modern Geocentrism - History Of Modern Geocentrism
The Ptolemaic model of the solar system held sway into the early modern age; from the late 16th century onward it was gradually replaced ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modern Geocentrism: Encyclopedia Ii - Modern Geocentrism - Catholic Geocentricity
The interpretation of scripture by the Church fathers is asserted by the geocentrists to be unanimously in favor of a geocentrist positio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modern Geocentrism: Encyclopedia Ii - Modern Geocentrism - History Of Modern Geocentrism
The Ptolemaic model of the solar system held sway into the early modern age; from the late 16th century onward it was gradually replaced ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Modern Geocentrism: Encyclopedia Ii - Modern Geocentrism - Catholic Geocentricity
The interpretation of scripture by the Church fathers is asserted by the geocentrists to be unanimously in favor of a geocentrist positio...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Heliocentric: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Heliocentric
Heliolatry. See SUN-WORSHIP   (See also: Heliocentric , Mysticism, Mysticism Dictionary, Occultism, Occultism Dictionary) &nb...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Heliocentric: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Heliocentric
Heliocentric The heliocentric system was universally known in antiquity as a part of the teaching of the Mysteries, and certain eminen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aberration Of Light: Encyclopedia - Aberration Of Light
The aberration of light (also referred to as astronomical aberration or stellar aberration) is an astronomical phenomenon which produces ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Isaac Newton: Encyclopedia - Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton, PRS (4 January [O.S. 25 December 1642] 1643 – 31 March [O.S. 20 March] 1727) was an English physicist, mathematician,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Isaac Newton: Encyclopedia - Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton, PRS (4 January [O.S. 25 December 1642] 1643 – 31 March [O.S. 20 March] 1727) was an English physicist, mathematician,...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Geocentric Theory: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Geocentric Theory
Geocentric Theory A theory in which the earth is regarded as being at the center of the solar system, usually referring to the system ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Lactantius: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Lactantius
Lactantius. A Church Father, who declared the heliocentric system a heretical doctrine, and that of the antipodes as a "fallacy i...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Helheim, Helhem: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Helheim, Helhem
Heliocentric The heliocentric system was universally known in antiquity as a part of the teaching of the Mysteries, and certain eminen...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Pythagoras: Spiritual Theosophical Dictionary On Pythagoras
Pythagoras (Ancient Greek). The most famous of mystic philosophers, born at Samos, about 586 B.C. He seems to have travelled all over ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Pythagoreans: Spiritual - Theosophy Dictionary On Pythagoreans
Pythagoreans The school founded at Crotona, Italy in the 6th century BC by Pythagoras of Samos. Pythagoras was an initiate not only in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Isaac Newton: Encyclopedia Ii - Isaac Newton - Biography
Isaac Newton - Early years. For more details on this topic, see Isaac Newton's early life and achievements. Newton was born in Woolst...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jagiellonian University: Encyclopedia Ii - Jagiellonian University - History
Its development was stalled by the death of the king, and later the university was re-established (1400) by King Wladislaus Jagiełło an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Johannes Kepler: Encyclopedia Ii - Johannes Kepler - Work
Kepler lived in an era when there was no clear distinction between astronomy and astrology, while there was a strong division between ast...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Physical Science: Encyclopedia Ii - Physical Science - Basic Principles
The foundations of the physical sciences rests upon key concepts and theories, each of which explains and/or models a particular aspect o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Parallax: Encyclopedia Ii - Parallax - Solar Parallax
After Johannes Kepler discovered his Third Law, it was possible to build a scale model of the whole solar system, but without the scale. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aberration Of Light: Encyclopedia Ii - Aberration Of Light - Historical Background
The discovery of the aberration of light in 1725 by James Bradley was one of the most important in astronomy. It was totally unexpected, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Friedrich Nietzsche: Encyclopedia Ii - Friedrich Nietzsche - Key Concepts
Much controversy surrounds whether Nietzsche advocated a single or comprehensive philosophical viewpoint. Many charge Nietzsche with prop...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Isaac Newton: Encyclopedia Ii - Isaac Newton - Biography
Isaac Newton - Early years. For more details on this topic, see Isaac Newton's early life and achievements. Newton was born in Woolst...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jagiellonian University: Encyclopedia Ii - Jagiellonian University - Library
The university library is one of the largest in the country, with almost 5.5 million volumes. It has a large collection of medieval manus...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Isaac Newton: Encyclopedia Ii - Isaac Newton - Newton's Apple
A popular story claims that Newton was inspired to formulate his theory of universal gravitation by the fall of an apple from a tree. Car...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Isaac Newton: Encyclopedia Ii - Isaac Newton - Newton's Legacy
Newton's laws of motion and gravity provided a basis for predicting a wide variety of different scientific or engineering situations, esp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Isaac Newton: Encyclopedia Ii - Isaac Newton - Newton's Legacy
Newton's laws of motion and gravity provided a basis for predicting a wide variety of different scientific or engineering situations, esp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Isaac Newton: Encyclopedia Ii - Isaac Newton - Enlightenment Philosophers
Enlightenment philosophers chose a short history of scientific predecessors—Galileo, Boyle, and Newton principally—as the guides and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Johannes Kepler: Encyclopedia Ii - Johannes Kepler - Life
Kepler was born on December 27, 1571 at the Imperial Free City of Weil der Stadt (now part of the Stuttgart Region in the German state of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Parallax: Encyclopedia Ii - Parallax - Use In Distance Measurement
By observing parallax, measuring angles, and using geometry, one can determine the distance to various objects. When this is in reference...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Parallax: Encyclopedia Ii - Parallax - Dynamic Or Moving-cluster Parallax
The open stellar cluster 'Hyades' (Rain Stars) in Taurus extends over such a large part of the sky, 20 degrees, that the proper motions a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Parallax: Encyclopedia Ii - Parallax - The Scale Of The Universe
All these various astronomical parallax methods allow us to establish the first rungs on the cosmic scale ladder, out to a few hundred li...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Parallax: Encyclopedia Ii - Parallax - Stellar Parallax
On an interstellar scale, parallax created by the different orbital positions of the Earth causes nearby stars to appear to move relative...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Parallax: Encyclopedia Ii - Parallax - Lunar Parallax
Jules Verne, From the Earth to the Moon (1865). "Up till then, many people had no idea how one could calculate the distance separating th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Parallax: Encyclopedia Ii - Parallax - Parallax Of The Human Eye
Parallax allows humans and other animals, such as cats, to see depth and perspective. Parallax - Binocular parallax. Binocular parallax...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Parallax: Encyclopedia Ii - Parallax - Parallax And Measurement Instruments
If an optical instrument — telescope, microscope, theodolite — is imprecisely focused, the cross-hairs will appear to move with respe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Isaac Newton: Encyclopedia Ii - Isaac Newton - Religious Views
The law of gravity became Newton's best-known discovery. He warned against using it to view the universe as a mere machine, like a great ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Isaac Newton: Encyclopedia Ii - Isaac Newton - Newton Versus The Counterfeiters
Newton estimated that 20% of the coins taken in during The Great Recoinage were counterfeit. Counterfeiting was treason, punishable by de...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Friedrich Nietzsche: Encyclopedia Ii - Friedrich Nietzsche - Life
Friedrich Nietzsche - Youth 1844–1869. Friedrich Nietzsche was born on October 15, 1844, in the small town of Röcken, near Leipzig, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Isaac Newton: Encyclopedia Ii - Isaac Newton - Newton Versus The Counterfeiters
Newton estimated that 20% of the coins taken in during The Great Recoinage were counterfeit. Counterfeiting was treason, punishable by de...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Isaac Newton: Encyclopedia Ii - Isaac Newton - Enlightenment Philosophers
Enlightenment philosophers chose a short history of scientific predecessors—Galileo, Boyle, and Newton principally—as the guides and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Aberration Of Light: Encyclopedia Ii - Aberration Of Light - Explanation
Stellar aberration causes the apparent position of a star to be displaced, and occurs when the observer's motion has a component that is ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Isaac Newton: Encyclopedia Ii - Isaac Newton - Newton's Apple
A popular story claims that Newton was inspired to formulate his theory of universal gravitation by the fall of an apple from a tree. Car...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Isaac Newton: Encyclopedia Ii - Isaac Newton - Fictional Appearances
Isaac Newton appears in many works of fiction. He is a recurring figure in Rubrique-à-brac, a French comic strip by Marcel Gotlieb. An o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Isaac Newton: Encyclopedia Ii - Isaac Newton - Religious Views
The law of gravity became Newton's best-known discovery. He warned against using it to view the universe as a mere machine, like a great ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Friedrich Nietzsche: Encyclopedia Ii - Friedrich Nietzsche - Style
Nietzsche is unique among philosophers for what is widely regarded as the remarkable power and effectiveness of his prose style - particu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Friedrich Nietzsche: Encyclopedia Ii - Friedrich Nietzsche - Nietzsche's Influence
Nietzsche influenced a wide variety of literary and philosophical figures, including philosophers Georg Brandes, Karl Jaspers, Martin Hei...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Friedrich Nietzsche: Encyclopedia Ii - Friedrich Nietzsche - Works
Friedrich Nietzsche - Writings and philosophy. Aus meinem Leben, 1858 Über Musik, 1858 Napoleon III als Praesident, 1862 Fatum und Ge...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Friedrich Nietzsche: Encyclopedia Ii - Friedrich Nietzsche - Kierkegaard And Nietzsche
Many philosophers believe Nietzsche, aside from the name, knew little of the 19th century philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855). G...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Friedrich Nietzsche: Encyclopedia Ii - Friedrich Nietzsche - Gender Views
Nietzsche's comments on women have provoked a great deal of discussion. Given modern sensitivities regarding the sexes and the rise of fe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Friedrich Nietzsche: Encyclopedia Ii - Friedrich Nietzsche - Place In Contemporary Ethical Theory
Nietzsche's work addresses ethics from several perspectives; in today's terms, we might say his remarks pertain to meta-ethics, normative...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Friedrich Nietzsche: Encyclopedia Ii - Friedrich Nietzsche - Political Views
During the First World War and after 1945, many regarded Nietzsche as having helped to cause the German militarism. The German right-wing...   » Read the article

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