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What is it…?

What is it…?. A Duck , or a Rabbit ?!. Pythagoras : “All is Number”  the “ Music of the Spheres ”. Pythagoras at his “Monochord”:. Intervals between harmonious musical notes always have whole number ratios.

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What is it…?

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  1. What is it…? A Duck, or a Rabbit?!

  2. Pythagoras: “All is Number”  the “Music of the Spheres” Pythagoras at his “Monochord”: Intervals between harmonious musical notes always have whole number ratios. Playing half a length of a guitar string gives the same note as the open string, but an octave higher; a third of a length gives a different but harmonious note; etc. Non-whole number ratios, on the other hand, tend to give dissonant sounds. Pythagoras described the primary building blocks of musical harmony: the octave (1:1), the perfect fifth (3:2), the perfect fourth (4:3) and the major third (5:4).

  3. The “Geocentric Universe” of Pythagoras & Aristotle

  4. So… If the “Dome of the Stars” turns the Universe, then what turns the Dome of the Stars…? Obviously, it’s the “Prime Mover”!

  5. The Heliocentric Explanation of Retrograde “Motion”

  6. The first successful measurements of Stellar Parallax (of 61 Cygni)… in 1838! Friedrich Bessel’s “Heliometer”

  7. The Golden Age of Islamic Astronomy (825 – 1450 A.D.)

  8. Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 – 1543 A.D.)

  9. (1548 – 1600 A.D.) Giordano Bruno “It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.” The monument to Bruno in the place he was executed, Campo de' Fiori in Rome.

  10. Galileo Galilei(1564 – 1642 A.D.)

  11. Galileo Observed… Enormous Craters on the Moon Galileo's SidereusNuncius(the “Starry Messenger”), this edition from 1653. Galileo first described craters and mountains on the Moon, as seen with a telescope.

  12. Galileo's sketch of a sky filled with stars. (A drawing of the Andromeda Galaxy… …Like the Milky Way!)

  13. Galileo Observed… Four Large Moons of Jupiter

  14. Galileo Observed… The Phases of Venus

  15. Tycho Brahe (1546 – 1601 A.D.) (and his Private Observatory, “Uraniborg”, on Hven Island)

  16. Johannes Kepler (1571 – 1630 A.D.)

  17. Kepler’s 1st Law…

  18. Kepler’s 1st Law: Planetary Orbits are Ellipses with the Sun at 1 Focus

  19. Kepler’s 2nd Law…

  20. Kepler’s 2nd Law: Equal Areas are “Swept Out” in Equal Times

  21. Kepler’s 3rd Law:

  22. Isaac Newton (1642 – 1727 A.D.)

  23. “Newton’s Cannon” Animation: physics.weber.edu/schroeder/software/NewtonsCannon.html

  24. Q: How to detect dim “Extrasolar Planets” (“Exoplanets”)? A: Use Newton’s Third Law! (“Action-Reaction”… i.e., “Force-Counterforce”)

  25. Extrasolar Planets (“Exoplanets”) Web Link: The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia (http://exoplanet.eu)

  26. “There is a single general space, a single vast immensity which we may freely call void: in it are innumerable globes like this on which we live and grow, this space we declare to be infinite, since neither reason, convenience, sense-perception nor nature assign to it a limit.” — Giordano Bruno Quoted in Joseph Silk, “The Big Bang” (1997) Giordano Bruno Habitable Exoplanets Catalog(http://phl.upr.edu/projects/habitable-exoplanets-catalog)

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