NATS 1745 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Almagest, Ancient Greek, De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium
17 Jan 2014
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3: because it was translated into arabic meaning the majestic or the greatest. 4: when greek texts where translated into arabic the stars were renamed to suit arabic culture and when contact renewed with western scholars in spain the names renamed. 5: because of scholars in spain that translated the arabic texts into latin. 6. it saved him because he predicted a total eclipse of the moon. 7: church adopted ptolemy model of the cosmos, it was geocentric, regiomontanus translated the almagest from the original greek and built first observatory. 8: because the air and object are both subject to earth"s rotation the explained why we don"t see that we are moving. 9: heliocentric, planets orbit sun, move at a constant speed but because of earths own movement causing looping appearance, orbits are circular. 10. it rotates on its axis rotates around the sun it wobbles also called the precision of the equinox.
