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History of astronomy

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history of one of the natural sciences

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1. By the telescope, also, we can behold the revolutions of smaller stars round Jupiter, whence it may be conjectured that there are several centres of motion among the stars. By its assistance, also, the irregularity of light and shade on the moon’s surface is more clearly observed and determined, so as to allow of a sort of selenography.[136] By the telescope we see the spots in the sun, and other similar phenomena…

   Francis Bacon, Novum organum

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2. The proximity of the moon, when at the full, and when it is new, and its distance in the quadratures or quarters, combined with the action of the sun, exhibit a sensible reason why the ocean swells and sinks. After having shown by his sublime theory the course and inequalities of the planets, he subjects comets to the same law. The orbit of these fires (unknown for so great a series of years), which was the terror…

   Voltaire, Letters on England

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3. The practicability and utility of prescience having been thus far briefly explained, the ensuing discourse must be proceeded with. It commences, introductorily, with an account of the efficient properties of each of the heavenly bodies, taken from the rules of the ancients, whose observations were founded in nature. And, first, of the influences of the planets and of the Sun and Moon. [28] This seems to explain the…

   Ptolemy, Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos

   Close in meaning to History of astronomy; the term itself is not named.

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Philosophers who discussed History of astronomy

• Jacob ben Machir ibn Tibbon

Related ideas

• Aristotelian physics
• De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
• Force
• Germany
• Greek language
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
• Princeton University Press
• Anima mundi
• Giordano Bruno
• Isaac Newton
• Iran
• Almagest
• Ancient Greek
• Planck (spacecraft)
• Johannes Kepler
• Julius Caesar
• Ibn al-Haytham
• Heraclides Ponticus
• Anaxagoras
• Kepler's laws of planetary motion
• Latin
• Cosmology
• Mathematics
• Mass

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