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ideas about the
structure of the
cosmos and the
heavens in particular. The
rabbis viewed the
heavens to be a
solid object spread over the Earth, which...
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Unpredictable observations in the
heavens,
including novas and
supernovas as well as
other phenomena in the
heavens such as comets, meteors, parhelions...
-
structure of the
heavens was very
fluid and simple."
Tycho opposed his view to that of "very many
modern philosophers" who
divided the
heavens into "various...
-
introduced by
Ptolemy to
account for the
apparent daily motion of the
heavens around the Earth,
producing the east-to-west
rising and
setting of the...
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barbiturate derivative. It has sedative-hypnotic properties. It is a
white crystalline powder with no odor and a
slightly bitter taste. It was
first synthesized...
- and sulfur-rich löllingite geyerite.
Lapis lazuli usually occurs in
crystalline marble as a
result of
contact metamorphism. The
intense blue
color is...
- vitamins,
amino acids, and herbs, and
alternative sweeteners such as
crystalline fructose places Fuze
products in what is
known in the
industry as the...
-
major innovation in that it
eliminated the idea of
transparent rotating crystalline spheres to
carry the
planets in
their orbits.
Kepler and
other Copernican...
- Encyclopédie,
cosmology is
broken down into
uranology (the
science of the
heavens),
aerology (the
science of the air),
geology (the
science of the continents)...
- mineral-like, but not a true
mineral because, as a gl****, it is not
crystalline; in addition, its
composition is too
variable to be
classified as a mineral...
