“The Popol Vuh refers to the dark-rift in several different mythological contexts. The black cleft in the Milky Way and the crossing point of the Milky Way and the ecliptic in Sagittarius are extremely important celestial features because of their involvement with the astronomical alignment that occurs on the 13-baktun cycle” In one particular episode , the Black Road(dark-rift) speaks to
In his career he was elected leader of several international astronomical groups. He received numerous awards, including the important Vetlesen Prize in 1966 from Columbia University. Oort's early studies, under his teacher Jacobus Kapteyn, made him familiar with Kapteyn's celestial model, which placed the sun at the center of a relatively small galaxy. In 1917, however, Harlow Shapley challenged Kapteyn's model, proposing a far bigger one. Oort's first major scientific achievement was to provide observational evidence that confirmed the main features of Shapley's model.
Jon Raymer Professor Ray English 1101 15 October 2013 Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman Emerson believed in individualism, non-conformity, and the need for harmony between man and nature. He was a proponent of abolition, and spoke out about the cruel treatment of Native Americans. Influenced by the Eastern philosophy of unity and a divine whole, emphasizing God Immanent, to be found in everyone and everything, Emerson sowed the seeds of the American Transcendentalist movement. He realized the importance of the spiritual inner self over the material external self through studying Confucianism. During his lifetime and since Emerson has had a profound influence on some of the 19th and 20th century's most prominent figures in the arts, religion, education, and politics.
The Noahic Covenant made at Mount Ararat is a result of God regretting his creation and sending a flood, and is within the context of His favouring Noah and relenting of his anger to save Noah and part of his creation through ordering him to build an ark. The flood destroyed many creatures, leaving only the ones saved by Noah. God makes this Covenant between Himself and Noah, and Noah’s offspring (Gn. 9:9) and all the creatures that were saved in the ark. God states that as long as the Jewish people follow his laws and worship him, he will never again send a flood to Earth.
In the 1600’s, Galileo, backed up observations by Copernicus and published them. He took the punishment for it, even though he should not have. Back in the second century a Greek astronomer named Ptolemy, published a theory about the universe that said that the earth was at the center of the universe. This was widely accepted through Europe and the Middle East because it agreed with the church’s view on the universe. This theory had the earth at the center of the universe and all other planetary bodies orbiting the earth while the earth stayed still.
Driscoll Essay Anthony M Cook OBST 515 – Orientation to Old Testament I Gary E. Schnittjer, Ph.D. Liberty University August 23, 2013 Young Earth creationists regard the Bible as a historically accurate record of natural history. They accept its authority as the central organizing text for human life – the sole indisputable source of knowledge on every topic with which it deals. As Henry Morris, a leading young Earth creationist, explained it, "Christians who flirt with less-than-literal readings of biblical texts are also flirting with theological disaster." According to Morris, Christians must "either ... believe God's Word all the way, or not at all (Morris, HM 2000). Therefore, young Earth creationists consider the account of creation
JOHNANNES KEPLER Johannes Kepler was a German man, who was specialised in mathematics and astronomy. He is most famous for his work on the laws of planetary motion, where he used the same base works as Isaac Newton did about his theory of universal gravitation, while he was also one of the most key figures in the 17th century science revolution. During his lifetime he worked beside and with many royalties (Princes, Emperors…). And he also made an improved version of the refracting telescope. He was religious and therefore tried to connect his work to God by saying how he created the world for certain reasons.
Johannes Kepler was born on December 27, 1571 in Germany. He was a mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer. He was most famous for his eponymous laws of planetary motion. Based on his work on Astronomia nova, Harmonicies Mundi, and Epitome of Copernican Astronomy it provided a foundation for Issac Newton’s theory of universal gravitation. Early Life Johannes Kepler was born on December 27, 1571 which was also the same day as feast day of St. John the Evangelist.
Today, we know that stars are born from interstellar gas clouds, shine by nuclear fusion and then die, sometimes in dramatic ways. This paper will discuss the life cycle of stars, but to have a better understanding of the life cycle of stars we first need to understand their birth. Since we were children, we have been curious about those little lights in the night sky that seem to twinkle in the darkness. We even sang about them growing up, “Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are? As a child, we could not understand the magnificent miracle that takes place for a star to be born.
This paper will attempt to find out who actually was more important to the history of astronomy of these four astronomers. Apollinarius was among the most prominent Greek astronomers of the time immediately preceding Ptolemy and his chief contributions were in lunar theory. Not much of his work or writings survived or is even known by title although one specimen of Apollinarius’s survived. This was a passage of about 500 words quoted in a fragment of an anonymous commentary on Ptolemy’s Handy Tables, composed in the early third century CE and was preserved in a medieval astrological manuscript. This passage explains about the periodicities with the Moon, and explains how the moon’s motion in latitude, reckoned as its progress in the plane of its orbit relative to the nodal line.