Titlebook: Our Place in the Universe - II; The Scientific Appro Sun Kwok Book 2021 Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021 Astronomy for non-science major

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Celestial Navigation and Exploration of the Heavens, also been measured to a reasonable degree of accuracy. Based on this knowledge, Greek geographer Strabo (64 B.C.–24 A.D.) wrote in his book . about the possibility of traveling to Asia by sailing west from Europe, 1500 years before Christopher Columbus.

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The Nature of Light and Matter,hese five elements are also tied to celestial objects, with each corresponding to one of the five planets. The terrestrial–celestial integration forms the basis of Chinese astrology. The five elements, coupled with the concepts of yin (陰 related to the Moon, female) and yang (陽 related to the Sun, m

Liberate

Is the Universe Finite?,r of the Universe, this cannot be true in an infinite Universe. An infinite Universe has no center, and therefore whether the Universe is finite or infinite has implications for our place in the Universe.

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Common Ancestors,t animals are not limited to mammals. There were also extinct large reptiles; the most famous are the dinosaurs. The study of fossil records of living organisms to understand the history of life on Earth later developed into the field of paleontology.

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The Nature of Nebulae,outhern hemisphere. The higher sensitivity that came with the invention of photographic plates in the nineteenth century also made the detection of stars much more efficient. In the 300-years period after Galileo’s first telescope astronomical observations, the known content of the Universe expanded from thousands to millions of stars.