ASTRONOMY

is the study of the/given b re er macau, distance, | one by: movements, the forces regu- | time wh ee morenents, etc, Thi cience,| ATB! of astrology may be looked upon | the mot a8 the infant stage, is known to have been | Nile at the Chinese, Hindus, | quantit: ans, Beyptians and Greeks previous | carrying; the era, but the Greeks were | cro es he only who did not connect it | This wa religion or soothsaying. | defeat « ef the universe laid down by | one of $0-150 A.D.), that the heavens | April 8: round the earth as a fixed centre ATH. in twenty-four hours, was universally | Canada ac until Copernicus, in the 16th | area of:. + Propounded the system known} by the by mame. In his ‘De Orbium | valleys s2e7 ” published in 1543, he/| growin: atten mere what Is the first| said to ‘pri of astronomy—that the | develor Bun is the centre of the solar system, and | Athaba the earth and the other planeta circle} ATH nd it. el ea afterwards | forth t and by the labours} the na Tycho Brahé, Kepler and Galileo. | Christ, was the first to employ tho tclescope | for a la astronomical observations. His frst | Athana of the Leavens with {ts ald was made | admitte y 7th, 1616, and resulted very soon; The t discovery of vhs kneel pea and = resolution of the Dante Way” | ing of host of fixed stars. Nowton’s | heresy ry of tho laws of ete Chaure! od in 1687, gave a clear insight into} the ei es that regulate the motions of the | throug. The mathematician and the} middic c have co-operated In adding to} it was ywledge. Modern astronomers, in| ordere: to determining distances and ATE ides with certainty, have devoted | 296, d. ves to verifying or correcting, by | of Sai: of greatly improved instruments, | ascetic ervations of the earlier workers. | he strc i has made known the | and so ition the various bodies, while | Arians Yographic plato has revealed the | Alexa: p of stars that were invisible to the | the pe the field of the most perfect tele- | Arians severa tBANIPAL. See A yria. 46 ye: [s. 56]