Starbooks Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 Just finished a poster on the solar system and I am interested in starting another called "Astronomical Stars" I want to show a timeline sweeping through space showing early scientists through to modern sceintists... E.g Copernicus working out that the planets revolving the sun Newton's law of gravity discovering Neptune by maths Hubble Chandra for calculating singularities in Black holes Hawkin for Black hole radiation etc. There are many more But I am not aware of all so... any suggestions of who should be in or not are welcome.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spalpeen Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 No such list would be complete without Archimedes. The Greeks were well aware that the Earth was a globe and that it circled the sun. They even tried to measure the distance to the sun by triangulation. Google 'Antikythera Mechanism' for curiosity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarangBuddha Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 Seems like James Maxwell, Michael Faraday, and A. Einstein should be included in there somewhere as well You op has peaked my interest...to see there really are some "thinking" people in Pattaya...I may just have to stop in and check-out your store...though unfortunately, I don't do dead-tree books anymore. Perchance do you have a coffee c afe attached as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarangBuddha Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 Tycho Brahe, Edwin Hubble, Neils Bohr as well. Not sure if you are focusing on astronomy, cosmology, or astro-physics? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petercool Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 The Mayan, Egyptians, Babylonians and others studied the solar system very early on to a point that they understood the 25,800 year cycle. Not sure if that helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarangBuddha Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 The Mayan, Egyptians, Babylonians and others studied the solar system very early on to a point that they understood the 25,800 year cycle. Not sure if that helps. What's the 25800 year cycle...is it something I should be worried about? Query: How did they come to understand a 25800 year cycle of anything when their civilizations lasted only a few thousand years at the longest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petercool Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 ^^ That's the beauty of their sophisticated mathematics and calendar system. The 25,800 years refers to the time the solar system takes to re-align to the universe in cycles. Or something like that. It does so again at end 2012. We can multiply days of a year by any number and they could too - and we live a short life also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FarangBuddha Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 ^^ That's the beauty of their sophisticated mathematics and calendar system. The 25,800 years refers to the time the solar system takes to re-align to the universe in cycles. Or something like that. It does so again at end 2012. We can multiply days of a year by any number and they could too - and we live a short life also. Sounds like complete mumbo-jumbo non-sense...you need to stop reading Chopra and watching Oprah. Leave the science to scientist please. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spalpeen Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 Since we're in Asia, let's not forget Chinese astronomy. The ancient Chinese were predicting solar eclipses when Europeans were still grappling with goat farming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petercool Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 ^^ That's the beauty of their sophisticated mathematics and calendar system. The 25,800 years refers to the time the solar system takes to re-align to the universe in cycles. Or something like that. It does so again at end 2012. We can multiply days of a year by any number and they could too - and we live a short life also. Sounds like complete mumbo-jumbo non-sense...you need to stop reading Chopra and watching Oprah. Leave the science to scientist please. Read something about the galactic alignment and then tell me its mumbo-jumbo. That some ancients calculated this is not debatable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jombom Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 ^^ That's the beauty of their sophisticated mathematics and calendar system. The 25,800 years refers to the time the solar system takes to re-align to the universe in cycles. Or something like that. It does so again at end 2012. We can multiply days of a year by any number and they could too - and we live a short life also. Sounds like complete mumbo-jumbo non-sense...you need to stop reading Chopra and watching Oprah. Leave the science to scientist please. According to Wiki it's about 26000 years. Link beow. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecliptic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gk10002000 Posted April 19, 2012 Share Posted April 19, 2012 Just this weekend My friend and I visited Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles. They have updated the place quite a bit. Galileo. Inertia ideas, Orbits, sun-centric versus earth centric original thinker despite church directions. Copernicus working out that the planets revolving the sun Tycho Brahe for making observations accurate enough for Kepler Kepler who actually determined the elliptical nature of the orbits( Laws of planetary motion) Newton and law of gravity and actually now being able to calculate orbits. Spectral lines (Balmer, Frauhoff, Bunsen) EInstein and General Relativity Hubble. Size and scale of the universe. Carl Jansky (Radio Astronomy) Chandra for calculating singularities in Black holes Hawkin for Black hole radiation etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starbooks Posted April 21, 2012 Author Share Posted April 21, 2012 Seems like James Maxwell, Michael Faraday, and A. Einstein should be included in there somewhere as well You op has peaked my interest...to see there really are some "thinking" people in Pattaya...I may just have to stop in and check-out your store...though unfortunately, I don't do dead-tree books anymore. Perchance do you have a coffee c afe attached as well? yep, good coffee and PG tips tea...... ebooks too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starbooks Posted April 21, 2012 Author Share Posted April 21, 2012 (edited) Just this weekend My friend and I visited Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles. They have updated the place quite a bit. Galileo. Inertia ideas, Orbits, sun-centric versus earth centric original thinker despite church directions. Copernicus working out that the planets revolving the sun Tycho Brahe for making observations accurate enough for Kepler Kepler who actually determined the elliptical nature of the orbits( Laws of planetary motion) Newton and law of gravity and actually now being able to calculate orbits. Spectral lines (Balmer, Frauhoff, Bunsen) EInstein and General Relativity Hubble. Size and scale of the universe. Carl Jansky (Radio Astronomy) Chandra for calculating singularities in Black holes Hawkin for Black hole radiation etc. Thanks, That's more like it. Unless I want the poster to be the size of Pattaya Gallileo is a good start, I will try and mention the Greeks, Mayans and Chinese..... Newton found the first planet using just calculation... Neptune... Hubble suggested an expanding universe.... Edited April 21, 2012 by Starbooks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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