Science
- Sky objects, bodies and the following astronomy terms:
- Astronomical objects, see for detailed description of celestial bodies and objects
- Celestia, a 3D astronomy program that allows users to travel through the universe
- Celestial coordinate system, a system for mapping positions on the celestial sphere
- Celestial mechanics, the branch of astronomy that deals with the motions of celestial objects
- Celestial navigation, a position fixing technique that helps sailors cross the oceans
- Celestial sphere, an imaginary sphere concentric with the Earth – all objects in the sky can be thought of as projected upon the celestial sphere
- Celestial spheres, fundamental entities of the cosmological models developed by Plato, Eudoxus, Aristotle, Ptolemy, Copernicus and others
- Celestial object Celestial object event moves into the shadow of another. The occurrence of lunar and solar eclipse are as under; Astronomical objects
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Famous quotes containing the word science:
“We have to ask ourselves whether medicine is to remain a humanitarian and respected profession or a new but depersonalized science in the service of prolonging life rather than diminishing human suffering.”
—Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (b. 1926)
“The motive of science was the extension of man, on all sides, into Nature, till his hands should touch the stars, his eyes see through the earth, his ears understand the language of beast and bird, and the sense of the wind; and, through his sympathy, heaven and earth should talk with him. But that is not our science.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The great pagan world of which Egypt and Greece were the last living terms ... once had a vast and perhaps perfect science of its own, a science in terms of life. In our era this science crumbled into magic and charlatanry. But even wisdom crumbles.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)