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27 Cards in this Set
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suggests that you have the light hit a mirror before the lens (this is a reflecting telescope)
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o • Isaac Newton in 1688
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largest telescope
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Yerkes observatory of Chicago
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• Means nothing beyond
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o Ne Plus Ultra
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• There’s more to come
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o Plus Ultra
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• Jews expelled from Spain are called
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Sephardic
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• Other group of Jews are called • Language- Yiddish
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Ashkanazi
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l l (old world and new world) and then the royal banner S across→ $ dollar sign
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o Two Pillars of Hercules
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• Islam culture at its great heights
• 1258- the Mongols coming in o they call this is fall of the Golden Age |
• Islamic Golden Age
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• Greatest philosopher/ theologian of Islam
• For a period of time went into hiding in cage and when he came out he said what is the purpose of theology and philosophy if you are not a good person o The Destruction of the Philosophers |
• al-Ghazzali (1058-1111)
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• True atheist can’t say that nature is beautiful
• How can it be a good God if he allows the Holocaust to be |
• Steven Weinberg
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• What is the name of the earliest author?
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(2354 BCE). En Hedu ANNAYour holiness- ornament- of the heavens.
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middle- the rivers
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• Mesopotamia
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o Babylonian temples called
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Ziggurat
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is the set of living creatures.
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• Zodiac
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o Line across the sky-
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ecliptic
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o Zodiac means
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little animal
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o 360 degrees in a circle?
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• The sun goes around the earth in 360 days- according to Babylonians
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based on 60 (minutes in an hour, seconds in a minute)
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o Sexigesimal system
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29 and a half days
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o Synodic month
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o A year is actually
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365 ¼ days
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every 47 years repeats its position against the background of the stars
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MARS
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used to predict lunar eclipse
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• Saros
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• Star that rises right before the Nile floods
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Sirius
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The foot of Orion hunter. The bright star in the sky- 8 light years away and getting constantly closer. 60, 000 years.
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o The dog star
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orignal capital of the inca empire
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o Machu Picchu
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o He learned from the Egyptians. Wanted mathematics to be practical- measuring the distance from the ship at sea. Did this by process of triangulation.
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• Thales- 624. Pre-Socratic’s.
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. Rents every olive press up to the day after. Cornered the market
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• Herotitus
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