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16 Cards in this Set
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Narrative from Genesis |
•1 of the books of the Hebrew Bible and Christian Old Testament •God separated light from darkness •6 days |
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Rigveda |
•Hindu Text •describes the universe as an oscillating universe |
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Brahmanda |
•"cosmic egg" •containing the whole universe including the sun, moon, planets, and space |
under Rigveda |
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Bindu |
•single concentrated point where the Brahmanda expands out of |
under Rigveda |
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Anaxagoras |
•Greek Philosopher •believed in a primordial universe |
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Primordial universe |
•original state of the cosmos was a primordial mixture of all its ingredients •the mixture was set in motion by the action of the "nous" or mind |
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Nous |
Mind |
under primordial universe |
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Stoic Philosophers |
•believed that the universe is like a giant living body •sun and stars as the most important |
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Leucippus and Democritus |
•Greek Philosophers •believed in an Atomic Universe |
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Atomic Universe |
•universe was composed of very small, indivisible, and indestructible atoms •obj. are composed of diff. arrangements of these eternal atoms and an infinite void in which atoms form diff. combination and shapes |
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Aristotle and Ptolemy |
•Greek Philosophers •geocentric universe |
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Nicolaus Copernicus |
•1543-Theory of Heliocentrism •astronomer |
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Giordano Bruno |
•Italian Philosopher •the solar system is not the center of the Universe |
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Sir Isaac Newton |
•1687 ▪described the universe as a static, steady-state, infinite universe ▪matter on a large scale is uniformly distributed ▪gravitationally balanced but essentially unstable |
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Rene Descartes |
•French philosopher •outlined a Cartesian Vortex Model of the universe •his model involves a system of huge swirling whirlpools of fine matter producing gravitational effects |
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Albert Einstein |
•like Newton's model •added a cosmological constant to his gen. theory of relativity equations to counteract the dynamic effects of gravity, which would have caused the universe to collapse •abandoned this idea when Edwin Hubble showed the universe was not static |
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