It is located 1,500 light years away, it was unknown to date, and it has been nicknamed that because it is unique. It is one…
What is Pluto?
Pluto is a dwarf planet, that is to say, a celestial body that draws an orbit around the Sun and that its mass is sufficient…
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…
Galileo
Galileo was born in Pisa in 1564 (the year Michelangelo died) and died in Arcetri in 1642 (the year Newton was born). Dedse 1597 he…
Tycho Brahe
Tycho Brahe (1546 – 1601) after studying at various European universities, returned to Denmark, his homeland, where he was appointed Astronomer Royal. Thanks to the…
Copernican innovation
“The very famous and very learned Nicolaus Copernicus, incomparable astronomer” was canon of Warmia – a province governed by his uncle and tutor, Bishop Luis…