James Gregory was born in the Manse of Drumoak. This is a small parish on the river Dee‚ about fifteen kilometres west of Aberdeen. His father was John Gregory and his mother was Janet Anderson. John Gregory had studied at Marischal College in Aberdeen‚ then gone on to study theology at St Mary’s College in the University of St Andrews before spending his life in the parish of Drumoak. Turnbull writes [20]:- [John Gregory] was a man of courage and foresight but was not conspicuous for outstanding
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Telescopes Hans Lippershey (1570 - September 1619) was a Dutch lens maker. Lippershey is believed to be the first to apply for a patent for his design‚ a few weeks before Jacob Metius (a Dutch instrument maker and optician)‚ and making it available for general use in 1608. The telescope invented by Lippershey was composed of a convex and a concave lens‚ as this construction did not invert the image and had only a magnification of just 3x. Galileo’s telescope improved the original Dutch telescopes
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recorded? Early in the morning he report his discovery to the Tokyo Astronomical Observatory a few day’s later the international news services announced to public that using a reflector telescope constracted by him‚ he discovered the new year’s first comet‚ named Comet Ikeya 1963 after that he receive a hundreds of interviews‚letters coming from amateur astronomers. He got a gold medal award by the Tokyo Observatory
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The early Maya villages were formed somewhere between 2600 and 1800 B.C. The first place of the Maya was on the Yucatan Peninsula. The people were farmers that grew crops such as corn‚ beans‚ squash‚ and cassava. After a while‚ the farmers started to move to highland and lowland regions. The early Mayas were also good at building cities‚ constructing pyramids‚ and making inscriptions on stones. The Popol Vuh is the creation story of the Maya. It talks about how the earth was formed from the
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in Uppsala to Nils Celsius who was a professor in astronomy. His two grandfathers were also professors’‚ one taught mathematics and the other was and astronomer. In 1732 he began his grand tour and visited almost all of the notable European observatories of the day‚ where he worked with many of the leading 18th century astronomers. Celsius went on an expedition with the French astronomer Maupertuis. The expedition was to measure the length of a degree along a meridian‚ close to the pole‚ and
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Également disponible en français Author: Angus Fergusson (Environment Canada) Editing: David Francis ( Lanark House Communications) David Wardle / Jim Kerr (Environment Canada) Contributing Authors: Bruce McArthur (Environment Canada): Bratt Lake Observatory David Tarasick (Environment Canada): Canadian Middle Atmosphere Model Tom McElroy (Environment Canada): MANTRA Project Special
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accomplished some amazing feats but many of those feats have come from continued failure. An example of this success through failure can be found in the attempted launch the Orbiting Carbon Observatory. DeGroot‚ the author of Dark Side of the Moon: The Magnificent Madness of the American Lunar Quest‚ stated that he observatory was a massive investment costing them $278 million. That $278 million would soon after launch crash into the Pacific. That’s a ton of money right down the drain. Many would argue that
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ninth-hottest years in Hong Kong Observatory’s records.| | | |The past decade has been the hottest decade in the city’s history. The Observatory attributed this to global warming| |and dense urban development. | |The past decade has also seen hot weather occurring more frequently than the previous one
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help of seismometers. The moment magnitude is the most common scale on which earthquakes larger than approximately 5 are reported for the entire globe. The more numerous earthquakes smaller than magnitude 5 reported by national seismological observatories are measured mostly on the local magnitude scale‚ also referred to as the Richter scale. Magnitude of concern: Magnitude of 3 or lower earthquakes are mostly almost imperceptible and magnitude 7 and over potentially cause serious damage over
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According to CNN‚ the Yazidi religion is considered a pre-Islamic sect who is now being referred to as devil worshippers by many Muslims. The ISIS has captured and holds about 3‚500 of these people as slaves. US Military officials and a UK based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights have confirmed that the captives are being moved to Raqqa. These people have undergone persecution since 2014 without any means of communication to the outside world. Moreover‚ ISIS has killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people
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