NATS 1745 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Orbital Period, Dailymotion, De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium
16 Apr 2018
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The knowledge of the ancient greeks was preserved by islamic scholars who translated all the works into arabic. Islamic scholars created star catalogues where names were renamed with arabic descriptions, when the catalogues made their way to europe the arabic names persisted. Many of the stars today are western pronunciations of the arabic names for the stars. What led to the reappearance of the ancient greek texts in europe after the. How did regiomontanus" work save christopher columbus" lif. The natives thought it was a bad omen if they lost their moon. Ptolemy supplied is the model of planetary motion. Almagest led christian scholars to adopt the aristotelian-ptolemaic cosmology owing to its consistency with scripture centric or not. When those 3 add together, the arrow is going to move like a projectile. Therefore it"s still going to land on our head whether the earth is moving or not.
