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Bartel, B. L. (1987), "The Heliocentric System in Greek, Persian and Hindu Astronomy", Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 500 (1): 525–545 [527–529], Bibcode: 1987NYASA.500..525V, doi: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1987.tb37224.x, S2CID 222087224. Rosen, Edward (1960), Calvin’s attitude toward Copernicus in Journal of the History of Ideas, volume 21, no. 3, July, pp. 431–441. Reprinted in Rosen 1995, pp.161–171.

European scholarship in the later medieval period actively received astronomical models developed in the Islamic world and by the 13th century was well aware of the problems of the Ptolemaic model. In the 14th century, bishop Nicole Oresme discussed the possibility that the Earth rotated on its axis, while Cardinal Nicholas of Cusa in his Learned Ignorance asked whether there was any reason to assert that the Sun (or any other point) was the center of the universe. In parallel to a mystical definition of God, Cusa wrote that "Thus the fabric of the world ( machina mundi) will quasi have its center everywhere and circumference nowhere," [54] recalling Hermes Trismegistus. [55] Medieval India [ edit ] In 2015, Weller made a West Coast Tour of the US to promote the Saturn's Pattern album. The tour ran from 9 June to 9 October. [26] [27] The Maragha school of astronomy in Ilkhanid-era Persia further developed "non-Ptolemaic" planetary models involving Earth's rotation. Notable astronomers of this school are Al-Urdi (d. 1266) Al-Katibi (d. 1277), [50] and Al-Tusi (d. 1274).

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Saliba, George (1995). A History of Arabic Astronomy: Planetary Theories During the Golden Age of Islam. NYU Press. ISBN 978-0-8147-8023-7.

On 8 March 2019, audio and video versions of Other Aspects,Live at the Royal Festival Hall was released. It is the second of two shows and was recorded in October 2018 at London's Royal Festival Hall with an orchestra. [29] On this episode of The Paul Weller Fan Podcast, we dig in to stories from the solo years with Jamie Johnson. Outside of the world of Weller, Jamie has also recorded albums with some of Spain and South America’s most successful artists including Heroes Del Silencio, Robi Draco Rosa and The Hall Effect. Eastwood, Bruce S. (1982), "Kepler as Historian of Science: Precursors of Copernican Heliocentrism according to De revolutionibus I, 10", Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 126: 367–394.Ancient and medieval astronomy [ edit ] A hypothetical geocentric model of the Solar System (upper panel) in comparison to the heliocentric model (lower panel). Between 1617 and 1621, Kepler developed a heliocentric model of the Solar System in Epitome astronomiae Copernicanae, in which all the planets have elliptical orbits. This provided significantly increased accuracy in predicting the position of the planets. Kepler's ideas were not immediately accepted, and Galileo for example ignored them. In 1621, Epitome astronomia Copernicanae was placed on the Catholic Church's index of prohibited books despite Kepler being a Protestant. The first person known to have proposed a heliocentric system was Aristarchus of Samos ( c. 270 BC). Like his contemporary Eratosthenes, Aristarchus calculated the size of the Earth and measured the sizes and distances of the Sun and Moon. From his estimates, he concluded that the Sun was six to seven times wider than the Earth, and thought that the larger object would have the most attractive force. Heliocentrism only applies to the selected Solar System, and only approximately, since the Sun's center is not at the Solar System's center of mass. See barycentric coordinates. Neugebauer, Otto E. (1975), A history of ancient mathematical astronomy, Berlin/Heidelberg/New York: Springer, p.695, ISBN 978-3-540-06995-9

In the 80s, people would often say that Bruce Springsteen was not a massive star outside of the US. As a kid who saw “Dancing In The Dark” ten times a day on MTV, that seemed hard to fathom. Eventually, I learned that this claim mainly meant that in America Bruce would play stadiums, while he would play arenas in most other countries. Of course it made some sense. Bruce Springsteen was a decidedly American artist singing decidedly American stories. The concept of an absolute velocity, including being "at rest" as a particular case, is ruled out by the principle of relativity, also eliminating any obvious "center" of the universe as a natural origin of coordinates. Even if the discussion is limited to the Solar System, the Sun is not at the geometric center of any planet's orbit, but rather approximately at one focus of the elliptical orbit. Furthermore, to the extent that a planet's mass cannot be neglected in comparison to the Sun's mass, the center of gravity of the Solar System is displaced slightly away from the center of the Sun. [128] (The masses of the planets, mostly Jupiter, amount to 0.14% of that of the Sun.) Therefore, a hypothetical astronomer on an extrasolar planet would observe a small "wobble" in the Sun's motion. [ citation needed] Modern use of geocentric and heliocentric [ edit ] a b Heath (1913, p. 302). The italics and parenthetical comments are as they appear in Heath's original.It has been argued that Copernicus could have independently discovered the Tusi couple or took the idea from Proclus's Commentary on the First Book of Euclid, [81] which Copernicus cited. [82] Prior to the publication of De Revolutionibus, the most widely accepted system had been proposed by Ptolemy, in which the Earth was the center of the universe and all celestial bodies orbited it. Tycho Brahe, arguably the most accomplished astronomer of his time, advocated against Copernicus' heliocentric system and for an alternative to the Ptolemaic geocentric system: a geo-heliocentric system now known as the Tychonic system in which the Sun and Moon orbit the Earth, Mercury and Venus orbit the Sun inside the Sun's orbit of the Earth, and Mars, Jupiter and Saturn orbit the Sun outside the Sun's orbit of the Earth.

The Jam: December 11th 1982 by Simon Wells". Modculture. 6 September 2011 . Retrieved 21 November 2017. JPaul Weller 'Dragonfly' Special Limited Edition Vinyl EP Comes Out December 17th 2012". New York Music News. 7 November 2012 . Retrieved 7 November 2012. Neugebauer, Otto (1975), A History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy, vol.2, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York: Springer-Verlag, p.1035, ISBN 978-0-387-06995-1 Free of the limited musical styles he felt imposed by the Jam, under the collective of the Style Council Weller was able to experiment with a wide range of music, from pop and jazz to Soul/ R&B, house and folk-styled ballads. The band was at the vanguard of a jazz/pop revival that would continue with the emergence of bands like Matt Bianco, Sade, and Everything but the Girl, whose members Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt contributed vocals and guitar to the 1984 Style Council song "Paris Match". Nicolaus Copernicus in his De revolutionibus orbium coelestium ("On the revolution of heavenly spheres", first printed in 1543 in Nuremberg), presented a discussion of a heliocentric model of the universe in much the same way as Ptolemy in the 2nd century had presented his geocentric model in his Almagest.a b c d e Larkin, Colin, ed. (1997). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music (Conciseed.). Virgin Books. pp.1243/4. ISBN 1-85227-745-9. The abstract noun in -ism is more recent, recorded from the late 19th century (e.g. in Constance Naden, Induction and Deduction: A Historical and Critical Sketch of Successive Philosophical Conceptions Respecting the Relations Between Inductive and Deductive Thought and Other Essays (1890), p. 76: "Copernicus started from the observed motions of the planets, on which astronomers were agreed, and worked them out on the new hypothesis of Heliocentrism"), modelled after German Heliocentrismus or Heliozentrismus (c. 1870). Heliocentric" redirects here. For the albums, see Heliocentric (Paul Weller album) and Heliocentric (The Ocean Collective album). For the heliocentric orbit, see Heliocentric orbit. Andreas Cellarius's illustration of the Copernican system, from the Harmonia Macrocosmica The Ptolemaic system was also received in Indian astronomy [ citation needed]. Aryabhata (476–550), in his magnum opus Aryabhatiya (499), propounded a planetary model in which the Earth was taken to be spinning on its axis and the periods of the planets were given with respect to the Sun. [31] His immediate commentators, such as Lalla, and other later authors, rejected his innovative view about the turning Earth. [32] He also made many astronomical calculations, such as the times of the solar and lunar eclipses, and the instantaneous motion of the Moon. [33] Early followers of Aryabhata's model included Varahamihira, Brahmagupta, and Bhaskara II. Three apparent proofs of the heliocentric hypothesis were provided in 1727 by James Bradley, in 1838 by Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, and in 1851 by Léon Foucault. Bradley discovered the stellar aberration, proving the relative motion of the Earth. Bessel proved that the parallax of a star was greater than zero by measuring the parallax of 0.314 arcseconds of a star named 61 Cygni. In the same year Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve and Thomas Henderson measured the parallaxes of other stars, Vega and Alpha Centauri. Experiments like those of Foucault were performed by V. Viviani in 1661 in Florence and by Bartolini in 1833 in Rimini. [133] Reception in Judaism [ edit ]