The word astrology‚ whose etymology is traced to the Greek words astro‚ meaning those that relate to stars‚ celestial objects or outer space‚ and logy‚ meaning reason (variant of Logos)‚ is defined by the Oxford English dictionary as ‘the supposed art of foretelling or counselling in human affairs by interpretation of the motions of the planets and stars; star divination‚ astromancy’. Astrology is a form of Western Esotericism; it operates on a specialized knowledge spread through limited circle
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Copernicus and the Heavenly Revolutions. Nicolaus Copernicus’s book “The Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies” was a book that challenged the way people think and made them rethink what they knew as fact. When Copernicus was born on February 19‚ 1473‚ there was only one view/model of the universe‚ which was Ptolemy’s model. His Geocentric Universal model‚ where the earth is the center of the universe and everything rotates around us‚ there was no question that this was fact. That was the case until
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“The knower’s perspective is essential in the pursuit of knowledge. To what extent does this apply?” A dad overhears his daughter coming home‚ telling her friend “I did it!” Depending on whether the dad has an overprotective or optimistic perspective of his daughter‚ the dad will further investigate by either stalking current and past boyfriends or flipping through the stack of college acceptance letters to figure out what “it” refers to. A perspective is the frame of mind through which a person
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Throughout time individuals have believed that by being certain about an aspect can enable one to accomplish a task. Although by being certain about a particular concept‚ will not enable one to overcome their obstacles in a situation. By having some measure of doubt‚ however‚ can allow individuals to question reality and the beliefs of society‚ which ultimately results in an unforeseen but better outcome. In history‚ one is able to identify a myriad of ways in which one’s doubt has altered the world
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Johann Gottfried Galle Johann Gottfried Galle was born on June 9‚ 1812‚ in Papsthaus‚ Germany. He was a German astronomer and the very first to sight the planet Neptune and was conscious of at what he saw in the night sky. The detection of Neptune is one of the most extraordinary events of the century. Growing up‚ Galle attended a Gymnasium located in Wittenberg and from 1830-1833 he continued his studies at Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat‚ Berlin. Galle then became a teacher and taught physics
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The scientific revolution caused a major impact on our history today. This revolution unfolded roughly between the years of 1500-1750‚ stating with Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543) to Isaac Newton9 (1642-1727). (http://users.clas.ufl.edu/ufhatch/pages/03-sci-rev/sci-rev-teaching/03sr-definition-concept.htm) This revolution drastically changes the viewpoints of society by changing concepts that were widely accepted since ancient times. Copernicus‚ Galileo‚ and Newton were all major figures hope
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Claudius Ptolemy was an Egyptian astrologer in the 2nd century who’s theories of astronomy‚ known as the Almagest‚ which he based a model of the Universe which influenced Western and Arabic societies for the next 1‚500 years. The Ptolemaic system is a geocentric cosmology assuming that the Earth is stationary and the centre of the universe. Ptolemy’s model showed that planets revolved around a point and that point revolved around another point which was earth. In order to explain the motion of the
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Nicolaus Copernicus By: Jenny For over 1‚000 years‚ everyone thought everything revolved around the earth‚ but Nicolaus Copernicus had a different idea that we base off of still today. He was a doctor and a church amidisteror‚ but still‚ impressively‚ put in time for his favorite thing‚ astrology. Copernicus was born on February 19‚ 1473 in Torun‚ Poland. He was born into a very wealthy merchant family of six. His dad passed away when he was 10. His uncle then took him under his wing promising
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Documents later showed up saying that Galileo had suffered neither imprisonment nor torture. The sentence was decreed and he was never held in prison. When he moved back to Florence‚ he made a request to be allowed to go to a church to attend mass‚ he was never excommunicated by the church for his believes in science. His remains were buried at the Church entrance when he died. In 1820‚ the censorship of Copernicanism was withdrawn by the Holy Office‚ taken on the discoveries made by two Italian
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Gabriel Glasser Professor Damnjanovic December 3‚ 2012 The Unveiling of the Heavens In summer of 1609‚ Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) pointed his revolutionary astronomical telescope to the heavens under the starry Venetian sky; his greatly important observations unveiled the mysteries of universe and would end up changing the course of scientific thought forever. Galileo lived in an age where there was much status quo‚ when scientists and philosophers would accept scientific and religious doctrine
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