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Dark energy survey
Chile dark energy camera
Singham
Teh position of the sun became a privieged place after heliocentrism was accepted, and this idea was applied retroactively to the pre-copernicans
Prtestantism has always been flexibel, and so abandone its opposition to heliocentrism quickly. the catholics took until 1822 1835 (nabbed bvooks) galielo edict lifed 1992
Sleepwalkers
copernicus held his book as he lay dying his mind wandering
favoured by a serene sky for the nile does not exude such vapours as the vistula
c was not a good astronomer. He made barely 70 observations, and the longitude of his base star, Spica, was off by more than the width of the moon.
He relied on the observations of Ptolemy and other ancients.
He drew on his canonical prebend, but did not attend Frauenberg for 15 years, instead focusing on his dgree. It was a cushy job
A graduate at Padua or Balogna was expected to throw a massive party for all his friends; at Fararra c could escape that
the publiocation of de rev produced hardly a ripple
His name was kept alive by his astronomical tables
melancthon proved the earth was at rest but did nto withdraw his patronage from rheticus
lunar eclipses can't happen; changes in the length of the day and season would ensue
earth woudl fly to pieces
John Donne Ignatius his conclave
osiander anonymous ad lectorum
40 epicycles vs 48 (ptolemy vs copernicus)
not placed on the list of prohibited books until 1616
Copernicuss lack of an equant made it easy to use
an attempt to go back to the beauty pre ptolemy
format parallels ptolemy's almagest
Emmanuel Kant coined the term, "copernican revolution in philosophy
Baumgardt
to calculate the orbits of the plants you need two stationary points; the Sun and Mars (whose orbit was well known) at a specific point
"[one of ] those few who cannot do otherwise but openly acknowledge thei convictions on every subject"
Galileo delighted in battle with others; Kepler did not
pious protestant in mild conflict with the church and considered something of a heretic
Born 1571 in Weil, southeast of Stuttgart
Born two months premature
(shakespeare, el greco, rembrandt, reubens and breughel, cervantes descartes, palestrina)
an attack of smallpox led to him being visually impaired for the rest of his life
his grandfather was bergomaster of Weil; his father was an itinerant soldier
His youth was wracked by iollness, and spent largely at convents schools, in particular that at Maulbronn, former station of one Johann faust
1589 he entereed the university of Tibungen
He was already praised for his prdigious grasp of Latin, and had published several Latin verses before leaving university.
He studied mainly theology and philosophy but also astronomy and mathematics. His longterm correspondents from this time were the astronomer michael Mastlin and the theologian Matthias Hofenreffer
Mastlin had likely turned Kepler to the Copernican system
In 1594 (aged 21) he was recommended (exiled?) to Graz in Austria to each mathematics, when he had hoped to persue a career in the Lutheran church
As a mathematicus, he was expected to give astrological predictions, two of which (unrest among the peasants and invasion by the Turks) came true. Kepler's attitude toward astrolopgy was mixed.
He saw flaws both in its outright rejection and in its overzealous application.
Knight
Sufferedn from poverty all his life, frequently had to beg for money
30 years war
grandfather became mayor, but was a protestant in a town of catholics
father heinrich was a spiteful, dissatisfied man, who drifted from place to place
his mother was strange; quarrelsome and disliked, mystical, herbalist
both made life mserable for each other
father lost what money he earned as a mercenary in a string of failed businesses
Eventually, his need to serve in other people's armies got him killed.
He was frequently pulled out of school due to his parents changing residents and requirements that he perform farm labour- not something he was suited for
His time at the convernt schools was bitter- routines were strict, classmates were competitive and his clear ability and praise from his tutors made him into a teachers pet