Celestial sphere

Throughout The Structural Change of the Public Sphere, Habermas talks about how the bourgeois public sphere transformed. He defines the public sphere as a virtual or imaginary community which does not necessarily exist in any recognizable space. In its ideal form, the public sphere is "made up of private people gathered together as a public and expressing the needs of society with the state. Throughout the book Habermas asserts that the bourgeois public sphere is premised on the incorrect…

One problem which we face is inequality of internet connectivity especially throughout Canada, this also impacts those of Indigenous culture as well as people who live in rural areas around Canada. A study was completed showing that “Remote rural communities suffer disadvantages associated with their distance from urban centres. Broadband can alleviate these disadvantages by connecting people, places, businesses and services irrespective of the physical location.” (Townsend, L., Wallace, C., &…

Warner’s Publics and Counterpublics focuses on one key question: What is a public? According to Warner the concept of “public” is usually misunderstood. Warner states that everything has a public. Warner splits his discussion of public and counter publics into seven sections. Warner states that this kind of public that comes into being only in relation to texts and their circulation (like the public of this reflection). The seven sections include: 1. A public is self-organized. It exists just by…

When China was declining the Europeans divided up China in “Spheres of Influence”, which was an area where a country had special privileges. The United States was one of the countries who didn’t have a sphere of influence in China, which worried them because they were afraid they were going to get cut off from China. The Open Door Policy stated that countries could not prevent other nations from trading within that countries sphere of influence. The Open Door Notes supports this statement by…

Haile Selassie, who wrote Appeal to the League of Nations, was the emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974. Both Ethiopia and Italy were members of the League of Nations. Italy was the founding member in 1920, and then Ethiopia joined in 1923. Benito Mussolini was an Italian politician, the leader of the National Fascist Party, and he ruled Italy as the Prime Minister from 1922 until 1943. Haile Selassie wrote Appeal to the League of Nations to get justice for his people and his country, making…

astronomical scholar from the Penn State University, in his introduction to his own research paper on the Music of the Spheres. Like him, the concept of the Music of the Spheres intrigued me immediately when I started researching the topic. I have always had a passion for Astronomy, and it was so interesting to discover the immense effect that Pythagoras’s theory, the Music of the Spheres, had on Johannes Kepler, and the connection between the three types of music that Boethius discovered in his…

his Guide for the Perplexed written between 1137 and 1190, concerns Aristotle’s natural philosophy and the astronomers’ conflicting truths. Around the twelfth century, most were a devoted Aristotelian, and educated people knew that stars in the celestial realm only had one motion, to revolve in a spherical motion around the centre of the universe . What Maimonides notes however, is that Aristotelian physics could not infer the existence of epicycles and eccentric circles. However, to make…

Constellation is a specific group of forms stars that are creating a pattern that is recognized as a shape that a is named from the formative figure in the sky. Constellations are all over the universe, new ones are created every day as the universe is expanding more and more every day. The constellations that we see every day is only a few of the stars that scientist have discovered, so far there is more constellation farther out in the universe but with our technology today we are not able to…

the universe structure where Earth is at the orbital centre of all celestial bodies. In the 4th century BC, Plato and Aristotle published studies based on geocentrism and believed that Earth was stationary at the centre of the solar system, and stars and planets rotated around the Earth on concentric spheres arranged in the order: Moon, Sun, Venus, Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and the fixed stars were located on the celestial sphere aligned with the north and south pole of Earth. According to…

Thomas during his speech is recognized for his explanation of his desire for not living through the use of figurative language and imagery of nature. By using these literary devices, Thomas is able to convey his message to his audience in an abstract way to elaborate on the way he feels towards his existence. Thomas decides to talk about this because he thinks that judgement day is coming and he wants to die sooner rather than later as he wants to avoid having to face his fate on the day of. In…