mathematics‚ and astronomy that made the empire scientifically advanced. Many people fail to realize that countless things mistaken for solely modern-day science‚ for example‚ plastic surgery‚ existed centuries ago. Here‚ the technologies of the Gupta Empire (320-467)‚ such as the development of a more accurate value for pi‚ the perfection of the modern numeral and decimal system; surgery‚ inoculation‚ the formulation of medical guides and a better calendar; and lunar astronomy‚ will be discussed
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PHYS 1160 Introductory Astronomy and the Search for Life Elsewhere Lecture 1 Introduction to Astronomy This Lecture • What is Astronomy • The Discovery of our Place in the Universe - A brief history • The Scale of the Universe 2 What is Astronomy? • The scientific study of celestial objects – e.g. Planets‚ Stars‚ Galaxies‚ and the Universe as a whole. • It encompasses the study of everything outside the Earth’s atmosphere. • The name comes from the greek words astron ("star") and
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Aryabhata The lost father of Mathematics and Astronomy General Purpose: My general purpose is to inform. Specific purpose: My specific purpose is to inform my audience about the Great ancient Indian mathematician and astrologer Aryabhata and his contributions. Introduction: A. Attention Getter: Many people believe that the concepts of mathematics such as number system and placement of zero‚ trigonometry‚ decimal system‚ approximation of pi and indeterminate equation were given my Greeks
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Through the poem ：When I Heard the Learn・d Astronomer；‚ Whitman leaves a dominant impression of his own view of astronomy and it・s abundance. He describes how the speaker recounts a day sitting through an astronomy lecture‚ listening to the astronomer・s dull mathematical descriptions of the stars by charts and figures. Gradually the speaker gets sick of its content. Instead‚ the speaker finds understanding and satisfaction just by wandering off plainly looking up at the night sky. The speaker generates
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Non-Euclidean geometry in our everyday use. In many ways they are similar and different. There are similarities and differences in Euclidean geometry and spherical geometry‚ Euclid’s fifth postulate applies to both forms‚ and it is used every day in astronomy. Euclidean geometry is the study of flat space‚ and can be easily drawn on a piece of paper. Non-Euclidean geometry is any form of geometry that uses a postulate that is equivalent to the negation of Euclidean parallel postulate. In Euclidean geometry
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REVIEW ASTRONOMY 152 EXAM 1 Chapter 1 (lecture #1) Light Year & Astronomical Unit (AU) are distances (pgs 4 & 5) know relative sizes of things: moon‚ planet‚ star‚ solar system‚ local group of stars‚ spiral arm‚ Milkyway/galaxy‚ clusters of galaxies‚ super clusters‚ filaments and voids (pgs 5 & 6) Chapter 2 (lectures #2 & 3) Constellations -stars of a constellation may be at very different distances Ancient times constellations loose grouping of stars based on mythology Now constellations
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where he was captain of the wrestling team‚ and co-editor of the school’s Physical Science Journey. Tyson had an abiding interest in astronomy since he was nine years old‚ following his visit to Pennsylvania and seeing the stars‚ saying "it looks like the Hayden Planetarium". Tyson studied astronomy in his teens‚ and eventually even gained some fame in the astronomy community by giving lectures on the subject as early as the age of fifteen. As he got older‚ he chose to attend Harvard University where
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monkeys bear similar resemblance to humans. Many aspects of daily life for the Quiché Mayan people contributed to the details in this myth‚ such as the significance of the jaguar‚ the importance of their main crop maize‚ and their amazing feats in Astronomy . The ancient Mayans worshipped the jaguar as a god of the upper and under worlds. In later civilizations‚ it became the symbol of war (Bunson). The jaguar “seemed to demonstrate 2 social status specifically with strong‚ powerful and leading
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Ancient India Technology In ancient Indian mathematics was known by the general name of Ganita‚ which included arithmetic‚ geometry‚ algebra‚ astronomy and astrology. It was Aryabhatta‚ who gave a new direction to trigonometry. The decimal system too was an innovation of India. By the third century B.C. mathematics‚ astronomy and medicine began to develop separately. In the field of mathematics ancient Indians made three distinct contributions‚ the notation system‚ the decimal system and the use
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Eastern Empire after the fall of Rome. Astronomy and medicine are two of the specific examples discussed concerning the backgrounds and beginnings of western sciences. The Greek and Islamic background to Western astronomy deals with realists and instrumentalists‚ the realists representing physical reality and the instrumentalists predicting concepts with the idea that physicist ’s models are mere convenient fictions. Although mathematics and astronomy did conflict‚ the two were not entirely
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