Transcription: Whether or not we are stargazers, astronomy touches every part of our lives. The calendar by which we live is determined by careful observation over many centuries of the apparent motions of the skies and our ideas of religion and cosmology are directly influenced by what we know of the patterns of the stars and planets. The history of astronomy traces the history of astronomy as a science, describing in detail the various discoveries that have led to our current beliefs about space and the universe. It reveals astronomy to be an exacting and serious science, evolving in tandem with geometry a ...
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