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    System with planets revolving around it. It also pointed out that the Earth was in motion and that motion could explain the Retrograde motion of the planets. • The invention of the telescope has aided in the discovery of planets and moons that are further out in space. • Improvements to the telescope provide means to understand the geological and meteorological structure and motions of other planets. The Geocentric Model – The Earth at the center • In the 2nd century‚ Ptolemy used

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    LIMITATION OF SIGHT AND HEARING INTRODUCTION Humans have sight and hearing limitation. Without any devices‚ our sight and hearing was limited. Most of the limitation of sight can be overcome with the help of certain optical instruments such as magnifying glass‚ microscope‚ binoculars and others. The range of frequency of hearing in human 20 Hz to 20 000 Hz. It was different according to the age of a person. Hearing limitations can be overcome by using devices such as microphone‚ stethoscope‚ earphone

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    Universe solved many of the problems he found with Ptolemy’s model” (Text # 4). By others changing their minds they receive evidence that shapes their mind to make new conclusions. Copernicus changed his mind due to the evidence he found by using his telescope‚ well a medal tube. This small report was then showed to his friends but many many years later it was published. He did not publish it due to being mocked by the church because the stuck with Ptolemys Theory. Then after this many years later Galileo

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    circulation of 4.000 daily. On August 25 and in the 2nd page of the newspaper there was an article titled “Celestial Discoveries” that reported a line of shocking discoveries – observations. These observations had been made by sir John Herschel‚ via a telescope of new technology that had been set up somewhere in the Cape of Good Hope‚ and had been published in the Edinburgh Journal of Science. Herschel’s observations revealed the existence of a variety of animal forms on the surface of the moon. Bisons

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    This essay is of a woman astronomer Caroline Herschel. Herschel was the first lady to discover a comet. The reason why I chose this topic is because apart from being a women astronomer she also showed her prominence in mathematics. She hailed from a musician background but her fortune brought her to the field of astronomy and today we stand witnessing vital discoveries such as of comets‚ which is a very significant topic of research in this modern era. She has been recognized and honored worldwide

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    Description of a sextant

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    triangular metal‚ or rather small pieces of metal joined together‚ that looks like a small rusty bronze slice of pizza with a lot of screws and hinges as toppings. Its extra parts consist of a small mirror‚ a telescope‚ a scale‚ and several magnifying glasses. What is it? A protractor? A navigator? A telescope? Or is it a mixture of all three? The triangle has a small arm that goes from the vertex to the arc of the circle. Furthermore‚ the arm is a calibrator that when put at the center shows that the main

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    use from the home‚ groundbreaking new technology such as the Hubble Space Telescope expanded how we view the whole universe (Hubble 1). Americans longed to discover the wide expanse of space and The Hubble assised just that. The Hubble Space Telescope is unlike any other telescope as it is positioned a staggering 353 miles above earth’s surface. Although The Hubble has returned over one hundred thousand photos‚ the telescopes significance actually lies in what we can learn from the captured images

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    contains an infinite number of possibilities‚ meaning that there are infinite amount of planets almost identical to earth with the same possibilities of containing intelligent life. To this day‚ the most Earth-like planet discovered by the Kepler telescope is Kepler 22B. It is a

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    Lecture 1 -Leveling In this lecture‚ we will provide a brief introduction to basic principles of surveying and outline one of the most fundamental forms of surveying - leveling Concepts Covered 1) Leveling Definitions (benchmark‚ HI‚ backsight‚ foresight) Basic theory of leveling Leveling the instrument Reading the survey rod Booking your work In-class survey 2) Discuss field assignment #1 3) Assign everyone into survey groups 4) Identify the location where we will all

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    He had many inventions that contributed to the Enlightenment such as the Naturalis Principia Mathematica Philosophiae and his ideas about gravity and the invention of the telescope. Isaac Newton was born on January 4‚ 1643 and his first contribution to the enlightenment was making the telescope. In 1668 he created the telescope for optics and this invention proved the idea of color and light. He proved that light was the composite of all other colors and that light is made up of particles. A

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