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:
“There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science. There are science and the applications of science, bound together as the fruit of the tree which bears it.”
—Louis Pasteur (1822–1895)
“For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible. Our science has always desired to monitor, measure, abstract, and castrate meaning, forgetting that life is full of noise and that death alone is silent: work noise, noise of man, and noise of beast. Noise bought, sold, or prohibited. Nothing essential happens in the absence of noise.”
—Jacques Attali (b. 1943)
“No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.”
—Jacob Bronowski (1908–1974)