King Alfonso X "the Wise" (b. 1221) was a noted scholar who pioneered the translation of Arabic and Andalusian astronomical works into vernacular Castilian. His multicultural court was active in ...
Claude-Louis Mathieu, born in Macon, France, in 1783, demonstrated an early aptitude for mathematics, overcoming familial and financial obstacles to graduate from the Ecole Polytechnique in 1805. His ...
Astronomer Vera Rubin, now honored on a U.S. quarter, transformed our understanding of the universe by uncovering powerful evidence of dark matter. Her groundbreaking work revealed that most of the ...
pt. I. Astronomy in art -- Monet and Turner, masters of sea and sky -- Vincent van Gogh and starry skies over France -- Edvard Munch : mysterious skies in Norway -- Yosemite moonrises and moonbows -- ...
Behind-the-scenes of the upcoming U.S. National Science Foundation Discovering Our Universe gallery Samantha Thompson Modern astronomy began with the invention of the telescope just over 400 years ago ...
The earliest cosmological ideas -- The early Greek philosophers -- The Pythagorean school -- Plato -- The homocentric spheres of Eudoxus -- Aristotle -- Herakleides and Aristarchus -- The theory of ...
A new book published by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) tells the story of the founding and early years of the Observatory at Green Bank, West Virginia. “But it was Fun: the first ...
Women and ethnic minority groups are still significantly underrepresented in astronomy and geophysics despite attempts to bring about change over the past decade, research has shown.
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