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“Earth (Home of Man)”
Gustav Holst
1917
((( composition )))
— NASA
The Power Of The Sun (1980)
Sacred Ground
(PAD 39A) VAB
The Last Stepping Stone
“String Of Pearls” (Glenn Miller)
“Stardust”
Nat King Cole
1954
((( song )))
— NASA
Florida Keys
Moon Rocks
TV
Andy Griffith
Phoenix (NCIS)
3rd Rock From The Sun
“Third Stone From The Sun”
b/ Jimi Hendrix
The Power Of The Sun (1980)
NO NUKES
“In The Skies”
Peter Green
1977
((( song )))
— dave.
Desert Skies
“Big Bad Moon”
Joe Satriani
1989
((( song )))
— NASA
NASA
Created in response to the Soviet Union launching Sputnik
Cape Canaveral, Florida (1957)
— Bill Anders (Apollo 8)
A Solar System
A MATTER OF MYTH, FACT, AND FANTASY.
Greek Mythology
Greek Gods (The Immortals)
Roman Mythology
The Planets
Roman Gods
(deities)
Sol
Apollo
Mercury
Venus
Earth — Unlike the other planets in the Solar System, Earth doesn’t share a name with an ancient Roman deity. The name Earth derives from the eighth century Anglo-Saxon word erda, which means ground or soil.
Luna — (Goddess of The Moon)
((( song )))
Galileo Galilei
Galilean Moons / The Shadow of Io
Cape Canaveral, Florida (1959)
1568 — “Figure of the Heavenly Bodies”
An illustration of the non-Ptolemaic geocentric system by Portuguese cosmographer and cartographer Bartolomeu Velho (Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris)
Mars
Juno
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus (Greek)
Neptune
Pluto — Like Catholic Saint Christopher, a celestial excommunication. JUST A CUBE OF ICE?
Operation “Pluto” (WWII)
Bay Of Pigs (Cuba) also: Operation Pluto
Plutonium-powered (controversial) rocket, launched from Cape Canaveral, sending a satellite to the outer edge of our Solar System.
“Shapes Of Things”
Yardbirds
1966
((( song )))
Shapes
Circle
Triangle
Square
BALANCE / COMPOSITION / DESIGN
Symbols
Logos
Letters
Alphabet
LANGUAGE / COMMUNICATION
Smoke Signals
Conch Shell
Bird Calls
Melody
Rhythm
Beat
MUSIC …
This is a journey into sound.
Stereophonic Sound.
— APPLE (Bite In The Apple)
Communizing The Moon (Blood Knife Magazine)
Most Religions Worship The Sun.
Ra (Magic Eye)
Egypt
Egyptian (Beliefs)
Tutankhamen
Cleopatra
Daughter of Ptlomey Cleopatra accompanied her father, after he was exiled, to Rome(58BC).
Mark Antony Cleopatra’s Italian Lover
A Scandalous Affair (Sex & Deceit)
Egyptian Religion
Tutankhamen (King Tut)
Power Of The Sun
Solar System (Planets Around the Sun)
Heliocentrism (Sun as the Center of the Universe)
vs. Religion (Earth at the center)
Solar Power
Solar System
Solar Wind
Fire In The Sky
Desert Sand / Sun / Glass
Prism
The Lens (Concave / Convex)
The Son of God
— Miro (Calder?)
SUN, SAND, AND GLASS
Sun / Sand / Science
Glass / Polished / Transparent
Reflective / MIRROR / Reverse / Illusion
Lucy & Harpo
The Devil Is Left-Handed
Religion vs. Art / Religion vs. Science
The Lens
Telescope
Looking Up
Seeing The Future
Imagineers
Benjamin Banneker
Galileo Galilei
Hubble
The Sun Is God
Religion vs. Science
Astronomical Time
Alexandria, Egypt
A city established by Alexander the Great
400 years before Ptolemy’s birth.
GREEK RULE
Alexandria cultivated a famous library, attracting scholars from Greece.
Alexandria’s school for astronomers received praise and patronage.
PTOLEMY’S COSMIC VIEW
THE NAKED TRUTH (Pompeii)
30 BCE
Rome conquers Egypt
Octavian Dominates Cleopatra
Rome’s interest was in conquering the Earth,
not phi·los·o·phiz·ing about the universe, and the meaning of life.
GOD CREATED THE HEAVEN AND THE EARTH.
and miraculously, it took him only seven days.
That’s the Catholic Church’s story, and if you want to stay alive, you had better stick to it.
The Romans, unlike the Greeks who they had conquered, provided nearly nothing for the scientific study of the stars.
Alexandria was then the second-largest city in the Roman Empire, not because of its scholarly past, but because it was the Empire’s most productive and important source of grain, mostly wheat.
FOOD FOR WAR.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT (ARISTOTLE)384-322 BC
(Aristotle)
(Alone In The Desert)
Ptolemy
The One Great Astronomers of Roman Alexandria.
FOOD FOR WAR.
Gaius Julius Caesar
100-44 BC
(The) Julius Caesar was Roman general and statesman who played a critical role in the events that led to the fall of the Roman Republic, and the rise of the Roman Empire.
The One Great Astronomer of Roman Alexandria.
Ptolemy
The One Great Astronomer of Roman Alexandria.
Stargazers
— Vies des Savants (1877)
Hipparchus (190BC-120BC), Ancient Greek astronomer, at the Alexandria Observatory, Egypt. At left is the armillary sphere he invented. Hipparchus is considered one of the greatest astronomers of antiquity. He calculated the length of the year and discovered the precession of the equinoxes. It is thought that the later work of Ptolemy was based on the work done by Hipparchus.
Engraving from Vies des Savants Illustres (1877).
Claudius Ptolemy
Geocentrism — The Religious Truth
EARTH AT THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE
God Created the Heaven and the Earth
Alexandria, Egypt
85BC – 165BC
Ptolemy’s was the church-sanctioned, and scientifically accepted view of the cosmos for 1400 years, until it was (controversially) challenged by the findings of:
Copernicus
Galileo
Newton
Nicolaus Copernicus — (1473-1543)
Renaissance-era polymath who theory of the universe placed the Sun rather than Earth at the center of the universe, in all likelihood independently of Aristarchus of Samos, who had articulated similar ideas some eighteen centuries earlier.
The publication of Copernicus’ book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres), just before his death in 1543, was a major event in the history of science, triggering the Copernican Revolution and making a pioneering contribution to the Scientific Revolution.
vs.
Galileo vs. The Church — (1615)
Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaulti de Galilei
(1564-1642)
Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, (polymath) from Pisa. Galileo has been called the “father of observational astronomy,” the “father of modern physics”, the “father of the scientific method,” and the “father of modern science.”
Galileo studied speed and velocity, gravity and free fall, the principle of relativity, inertia, projectile motion and also worked in applied science and technology, describing the properties of pendulums and “hydrostatic balances”, inventing the thermoscope and various military compasses, and using the telescope for scientific observations of celestial objects. His contributions to observational astronomy include the telescopic confirmation of the phases of Venus, the observation of the four largest satellites of Jupiter, the observation of Saturn’s rings, and the analysis of sunspots.
Galileo’s championing of heliocentrism and Copernicanism was controversial during his lifetime, when most subscribed to geocentric models such as the Tychonic system. He met with opposition from astronomers, who doubted heliocentrism because of the absence of an observed stellar parallax. The matter was investigated by the Roman Inquisition in 1615, which concluded that heliocentrism was “foolish and absurd in philosophy, and formally heretical since it explicitly contradicts in many places the sense of Holy Scripture”.
Galileo later defended his views in Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632), which appeared to attack Pope Urban VIII and thus alienated him and the Jesuits, who had both supported Galileo up until this point. He was tried by the Inquisition, found “vehemently suspect of heresy”, and forced to recant. He spent the rest of his life under house arrest. While under house arrest, he wrote Two New Sciences, in which he summarized work he had done some forty years earlier on the two sciences now called kinematics and strength of materials.
Glass/ Lens/ Telescope
Astronomy
History Of Science
The Catholic Church
Scientific Revolution
— National Geographic
1705 — Sir Isaac Newton
Spanish Inquisition
During most of the 16th and 17th centuries, fear of heretics spreading teachings and opinions that contradicted the Bible dominated the Catholic Church.
They persecuted scientists who formed theories the Church deemed heretical
Forbade people from reading any books on those subjects, placing them on
The Index of Prohibited Books.
WAR OF THE WORLDS
Science vs. Religion
Casualties Of War
Nicholas Copernicus (1508)
Galileo Galilei (1633)
The Persecuted
The Starry Messenger b/ Galileo Galilei
“Cosmic Messenger” b/ Jean Luc-Ponty
Galileo was jailed for heresy for being the first scientist to write Earth orbited around the Sun, and that the Earth was not the Center Of The Universe, as the Catholic Church had always preached. The Starry Messenger was banned in 1633, and Galileo was sentenced to Life Imprisonment, and remained in custody until his death in 1642.
— NASA
Nicolas Copernicus
Heliocentric Solar System
Among the sources Copernicus consulted in his earliest Astronomic studies (1501) was Regiomontanus, a 15th-Century Astronomer who’s “Epitome of the Almagest,” presented an alternative to Ptolemy’s religious, Earth-Centric Theory Of The Universe, significantly influenced Copernicus in his (1508) theory of a system in which the Earth and a number of other planets revolved around the Sun.
MERCURY
VENUS
EARTH
MARS
JUPITER
SATURN
URANUS
NEPTUNE
PLUTO
Comets
Moons
Blocks Of Ice?
— NASA
“Opticks” b/ Issac Newton
GEOGRAPHY
Atlantic Ocean
Gulf Stream
Cuba, Havana
Florida Straits
Dry Tortugas
Marquesas
Key West
Lower Keys
Middle Keys
Key Deer
Key Lime
ISLAMORADA
Hurricane Monument
Florida Bay
Coral Reef
Beach Sand
Sand Dunes
Power Of Gold
Gold Lust
Emerald Coast
Silver Spring
Zephyrhills
Spring Water
— dave.
• YouTube #1 / ORIGINAL NOISE
• YouTube #2 / ORIGINAL NOISE
— 1979
No Nukes (documentary / concert film)
Madison Square Garden (1979)
Musicians United for Safe Energy
A collective of anti-nuclear, activist musicians:
Jackson Browne
Graham Nash
Bonnie Raitt
John Hall
preaching the dangers of nuclear power,
anti-nuclear rally in Battery Park ( New York City.)
— Washington D.C. (1835)
Benjamin Banneker (November 9, 1731 – October 19, 1806) was a free African-American almanac author, surveyor, landowner and farmer who had knowledge of mathematics and natural history. Born in Baltimore County, Maryland, to a free African-American woman and a former slave, Banneker had little or no formal education and was largely self-taught. He became known for assisting Major Andrew Ellicott in a survey that established the original borders of the District of Columbia, the federal capital district of the United States.
Banneker’s knowledge of astronomy helped him author a commercially successful series of almanacs. He corresponded with Thomas Jefferson on the topics of slavery and racial equality, Jefferson having earlier drafted the United States Declaration of Independence. Abolitionists and advocates of racial equality promoted and praised Banneker’s works.
