This colored version of a 19th-century engraving depicts ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus using a sighting tool to measure the positions of the stars. Science historians don't know exactly how ...

Ancient Greek astronomers were the first to gather knowledge about space exploration. Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos could ...

Uranus, being dim and slow-moving, did not appear among these and was therefore excluded from the traditional geocentric cosmology, which placed Earth at the center, surrounded by the concentric ...

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While second-century astronomer Ptolemy noted the cluster as “the nebulous mass in the breast of Cancer,” Galileo made the first telescopic view of the star cluster in 1609, when he counted 40 ...

However, the study sheds light on areas where Copernicus’s theory draws directly on Ibn al-Shatir. It mentions the lunar model in which the Muslim astronomer uses epicycles to correct Ptolemy’s ...

Writes the study’s author, “Both astronomers (Copernicus and Ibn al-Shatir) replaced Ptolemy’s equant with additional circular motions, achieving uniform motion without an artificial ...

It mentions the lunar model in which the Muslim astronomer uses epicycles to correct Ptolemy’s exaggerated lunar distance variations. “This is nearly identical to Copernicus’s lunar model in ...