Mere
Astronomical Enormities, or
education for
the masses?
Before Astronomy?
Interrelated subjects, what?
This page links with many articles on cosmology, and
is here because the originating web links at Rice U are not currently
viewable. I had
been looking at them and downloaded much of the information to view
off-line. Hence,
they're here, except for some missing larger illustrations.
How to
get up there to have a really good look, maybe,
at these, which were taken by the Hubble telescope satellite, that itself needs repair, or it will
fall, screaming, into the atmosphere:
The
invisible universe, now known to cause the expansion that will never end,
well not in our species' lifetime, in case you were wondering.
Here is the transit of Venus, of June 7th., 2004, at the time
of Ronald Reagan's lying in state:
Tycho Brahe
and Uraniburg,
too. Brahe at the Project
Galileo.
Johannes Kepler;
Simon Marius;
Thomas Harriot;
Hans Lipperhey;
Christoph
Scheiner.
The Copernican System; the
Ptolemaic System
The
Problem with
Longitude; the Telescope
and Jupiter's Satellites, the
Moon,
and Sunspots.
The Gregorian Calendar
Florence; The
Medici Family
Related
Glossary
This cover of
Interview Magazine shows a genius, some dozen years ago. Become
closer to London, at night, not quite like the fake, but fascinating, view of
approaching night shown below:
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