contains an outline of Aristotle's cosmology, his belief of the origin and development of the universe. Book II covers his daily observation of the sky. Book III covers the length of the year and the position of the sun. Book IV and V cover the Moon and the distance and sizes of the sun moon and earth. Book VI covers lunar and solar eclipses. Book VII and VIII cover the motion of stars, the constellations, and a star brightness scale. Book IX addresses the issues with creating models for the five closest
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the wind and the grass shifting around my body. But for some reason I couldn’t open my eyes. I could feel my arms moving around but my eyes were glued shut. I felt the hours pass by. Seconds to minutes, minutes to hours. Then I opened my eyes. The sun burned my eyes but my eyes adjusted and I saw the world around me. I was lying on the ground under a tree where a bird’s nest perched. I got up to see I was on hill seeing the entire kingdom. My friend Yeidlary is queen we actually knew each other
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Nevertheless, the news of Phineus’ imprisonment had reached his beloved, Amara. Before the sun rose over the events of the night, Amara venture deep into Atrimpas’ lair, pleading to the Sea God for Phineus’ freedom. A crafty, and lonely, Atrimpas, agreed to free Phineus from his watery captivity if Amara gave him her hand in marriage. The next
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Dear Sister I recd. a letter from you last night and as I have a chance I thought I would ans. it to day. I am all right yet but we are losing men every day. We are laying in Breastworks in sight of Petersburg and Batterys in the rear of us shelling the city. We had a capt. killed yesterday and nine or ten men killed and wounded in the Regt. and one killed to day and several wounded. We are so near the Rebs Breastworks that it is sure thing for a man to show his head he will either get a wound or
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On september 23rd, 1846 two astronomers John Couch from Britain, And Urbain Le Verrier from France joined together and used calculations to find the exact location of of Neptune. They both claimed they found it and it lead to an national dispute. Neptune is the eighth planet the solar system. Uranus is in front and Pluto is behind it. The planet takes 15 hours, 57 minutes and 59 seconds to fully rotate. That is a little faster than Earth's rotation. Now before you see how many miles large it is
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very large gravitational pull that holds everything in place, planets also have a gravitational pull but it's not as powerful as the sun's gravitational pull, which makes it so that the planets do not float away but also do not come crashing into the sun. Stars are immense balls of gas that produce
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Spring should be a time of growth and warmth, but last spring it felt like everything I ever cared about came to a crashing halt. In March the air smelled of hopes and dreams, but I had none. I stopped believing everything that used to inspire me. I started questioning myself. I became my own problem; my biggest hindrance in getting myself to where I have always wanted to be. One day I went to PetSmart to look at the fish. I wandered aimlessly until I stopped in front of the tank of 20 cent comet
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In this The Met Museum, I caught sight of an oil painting that was called A Shaded Avenue. This beautiful oil painting was created by Jean Honore Fragonard who was French. This painting contained a trail through the trees, several people who were walking and talking, a blue sky with covered clouds and two sculptures that was near the load. There are blooming trees covering over all trail and creating shadow in ground. As for overview of this painting, about 75% is dark color and the rest is bright
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Annie Jump Cannon was an American astronomer, born on December 11, 1863. She was born in Dover, Delaware but she moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts before she died. Suffering from scarlet fever rendered her nearly deaf, this made it hard for her to socialize and as a result she immersed herself in her work. She was a suffragist and a member of the National Women's party. Known for Stellar classification, she listed nearly 400,000 stars in her contribution to the Draper catalog. She is also known
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Maple Lake overlook begins with pavement: an inlet of asphalt parking lot attached to the winding river of 95th Street. Beyond the lot is rock, a ragtag cluster of cragged boulders forming a haphazard wall. We stumble over them in the darkness until we’re at the lake’s edge, staring out at black water dotted with the reflections of winter stars and the crescent moon. There, nestled in Pulaski Woods a mere mile or so from the sickly orange fluorescence and neat grid of suburban streets, the Lake feels
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