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Celestial Encounters is for anyone who has ever wondered about the foundations of chaos In 1888 the 34yearold Henri Poincar submitted a paper that was to change the course of science but not before it underwent significant changes itself The ThreeBody Problem and the Equations of Dynamics won a prize sponsored by King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway and the journal Acta Mathematica but after accepting the prize Poincar found a serious mistake in his work While correcting it he discovered the phenomenon of chaosStarting with the story of Poincars work Florin Diacu and Philip Holmes trace the history of attempts to solve the problems of celestial mechanics first posed in Isaac Newtons Principia in 1686 In describing how mathematical rigor was brought to bear on one of our oldest fascinationsthe motions of the heavensthey introduce the people whose ideas led to the flourishing field now called nonlinear dynamicsIn presenting the modern theory of dynamical systems the models underlying much of modern science are described pictorially using the geometrical language invented by Poincar More generally the authors reflect on mathematical creativity and the roles that chance encounters politics and circumstance play in it. Introductory . Astronomy . The . Celestial Sphere. 1. The Celestial Sphere. Pattern of stars . unchanging. : can imagine them fixed on a sphere surrounding Earth. Celestial Sphere. is large and rigid. Introductory Astronomy . The. Sun and the Moon. 1. So Far. Stars . fixed on a large celestial sphere that rotates daily . East . to . West . about an axis through Earth’s poles. Declination . is celestial longitude. Observer’s . I. The Wise Men. (Matthew 2:1-2, 9-11. ). .. Seeking . Jesus. Offered . Gifts to Him. Brief Encounters with Jesus. II. Nicodemus (John 3:1-6).. Curious . About Jesus. Brief Encounters with Jesus. Christy Adams. Who is admitted?. D&C 76:50-70. Those who received the testimony of Jesus Christ and were baptized and received the Holy Ghost. Those who are sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise. Those of the Church of the Firstborn (Church of Christ). Lecture 11: Extra-Solar Planets. Outline. Finding Extra-Solar Planets. The Two-Body Model. A Celestial Cubic. Example-51-Pegasi. 2. Finding Extra-Solar Planets. Recent discoveries of planets orbiting stars rely on a type of problem known as an . Introductory Astronomy . The. Sun and the Moon. 1. So Far. Stars . fixed on a large celestial sphere that rotates daily . East . to . West . about an axis through Earth’s poles. Declination . is celestial longitude. Observer’s . Julieanna Bacon. About Me. H. ow . many people can say their first word was a celestial object? Probably . . . not . a lot, and when your first . word . is something . like star, chances . are you have already . Taoism: Let’s Recap. What is the “Tao”? . Taoism originated in which country?. Who is Lao Tzu?. Who is Huang Di?. Who is Chuang Tzu?. What does “. wu. . wei. ” mean and how is it applied in Taoism?. Ancient naked-eye astronomy. Eighty-eight constellations. The sky. ’. s ever-changing appearance. The celestial sphere. Celestial coordinates. Seasons: Earth. ’. s axial tilt. Precession of Earth. 1. Is the north Star, Polaris, at the . Zenith from . our viewpoint in Gallup? Why or why not?. You are observing the sky at the equator, (this is a time-lapse. photo of what you see). . What part of the celestial sphere could you be looking . What is a Constellation?. A specific group of stars.. Ancient people of many cultures . connected. groups of stars to form patterns, like huge dot-to-dot puzzles.. These . patterns. are known as constellations. . vocabulary. forestall. forestall. . v. . prevent. meticulous. meticulous. adj. extremely careful about details. affectation. affectation. n. .; . a. rtificial behavior intended to impress others. The Earth rotates about its axis and revolves around the sun.. We sometimes talk as though the Earth were fixed and the celestial objects (stars, sun, moon, planets) move around us.. This is based on antiquity and is not true but it is sometimes a good way to look at the situation.. Astrologers generally believe that the movements and positions of celestial bodies can inform them about events experienced on a human scale or that predictions can be made from them.. Astrology is the NONSCIENTIFIC study of the sky and celestial bodies..