Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). He was a proponent of the Copernican theory, which brought him great conflicts with the Inquisition of Rome, where he was forbidden…
Astronomy, Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543). Considered the true architect of the new astronomy. Based on the reading of ancient authors who made reference to the system Heliocentric…
THE RENAISSANCE.
THE RENAISSANCE. This period is the arrival point of humanism characterized by a wide cultural movement that occurs in Western Europe during the fifteenth and…
History of Astronomy – Greece
. GREECE For the Pythagoreans (572-48 BC), the sky as a whole is numbers and it is harmony. I know it preaches equality among all…
Astronomy History 2 EGYPT
EGYPT The Nile was vital to Egyptian culture since the stone age. Climate change and desertification Sahara around 8000 BC. C. forced the migrated and…
HISTORY OF THE ASTRONOMY – BABYLON
The history of Babylon is divided into two stages separated from each other by the period of Assyrian rule; the Pale Babylonian or Amorite Empire…
HISTORY OF THE ASTRONOMY
Astronomy is one of the oldest sciences and at the same time one of the most modern. Apparently despised until a few years ago, under…
Star Formation in R136: A Cluster of O3 Stars Revealed by Hubble Space Telescope Spectroscopy
The R136 cluster in 30 Doradus is the prototype “super star cluster,” and the only example sufficiently close that its massive star content can be…
Modern astronomy
At last everything had changed; since Newton astronomy had come of age and occupied its rightful place within the wide range of the sciences, abandoning…
The heliocentric revolution
And the light of the Renaissance flooded the Orb, lit arts and sciences and, as an immediate consequence, illuminated astronomy. Thus began the so-called Modern…