scholarly journals Editors' note: bibliometrics and the curators of orthodoxy

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Know How ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Citation Indexes ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Analytical Tools ◽  
Time Away

Have you ever seen the Citation Indexes (CIs) for the year 1600? At that time, a very active community was working on the reconstruction of planetary movements by means of epicycles. In principle, any ellipse around the Sun may be approximated by sufficiently many epicycles around the Earth. This is a non-trivial geometrical task, especially given the lack of analytical tools (sums of series). And the books and papers of many talented geometers quoted one another. Scientific knowledge, however, was already taking other directions. Science has a certain ‘inertia’, it is prudent (at times, it has been exceedingly so, mostly for political or metaphysical reasons), but even under the best of conditions, we all know how difficult it is to accept new ideas, to let them blossom in time, away from short-term pressures.

scholarly journals Próba przezwyciężenia doktryny podwójnej prawdy przez Galileusza

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 17-38
Author(s):  
Marek Sołtysiak
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
The Sun ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Autonomy Of Science ◽  
Fides Et Ratio ◽  
Science And Faith

The article is an attempt to answer the question of whether Galileo has overcome the doctrine of double truth in Copernican letters. The answer to this question is not unequivocal, just as the ‘Galileo case’ is unequivocal. As it is well known, the attempt to defend Copernicanism ended tragically for him. He had to revoke his view that the Earth revolves around the Sun. Also, as for the „evidence” presented by him on this matter, it proved to be either insufficient or false. However, the principle of the autonomy of science and faith, his emphasis on the authority of scientific knowledge and the authority of the Bible survived the period of condemnation of his thoughts and made itself felt in the nineteenth century, and today they determine the fides et ratio relation.

The Earth but a Satellite of the Sun

1958 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 150-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. G. R. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Similar Role ◽  
The Earth ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Detective Stories ◽  
Fred Hoyle ◽  
The Universe

New ideas of a really fundamental character are always received with horror and alarm by the general public, and are vigorously repudiated. When Fred Hoyle, in a brilliant series of broadcasts, remarked that his physico-mathematical calculations indicated that newly created hydrogen was being continuously injected into the Universe, the B.B.C. had to take hasty countermeasures. A well-known authoress of detective stories and religious pl ys, followed by a respected professor of science, declared on the air that the earlier t lks had been merely speculative. A similar role was filled in 1543 by the theologian Andreas Osiander, who added a Preface to Copernicus's startling book De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (the author having just died), to the effect that he had only intended as a mathematical hypothesis, not as a matter of fact, to picture a rotating globe revolving round the Sun. From the point of view of pure geometry it was, it is true, merely a matter of a change of coordinates. People settled back comfortably for another sixty or seventy years, until Galileo made certain awkward observations with his new telescope.

scholarly journals Short-term variation of the Earth's rotation and the solar activity

1988 ◽  
Vol 128 ◽  
pp. 353-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Djurovic ◽  
P. Paquet
Keyword(s):  
Spectral Analysis ◽  
Angular Momentum ◽  
Solar Activity ◽  
Earth Rotation ◽  
Cyclic Variation ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Physical Processes ◽  
Short Term ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Term Variation

In 1980, Feissel et al. identified a quasi–cyclic variation of 55 days in the irregularities of the Earth Rotation (ER) later detected in the Atmospheric Angular Momentum (AAM) (Langley et al., 1981). The purpose of this work is to analyse whether the causes of this cycle could lie in the physical processes of the Sun. The Wolf Numbers (WN) are used as parameters of the solar activity. Their spectral analysis over the period 1967–1985 shows such a component at 51 days. Analysis of three other periods, among which is the MERIT campaign, confirms it as well as during low or increasing solar activity periods.

scholarly journals The Sun Service KRIM - diagnostic complex of solar activity

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 15003
Author(s):  
Alexander Volvach ◽  
Olga Gopasyuk ◽  
Inna Yakubovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Solar Activity ◽  
Correlation Coefficients ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Radio Telescopes ◽  
Short Term ◽  
X Ray ◽  
Daily Monitoring ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Term Forecast ◽  
Diagnostic Complex

The radio astronomical diagnostic complex of solar activity, created on the basis of the radio telescope RT-22 and three small radiotelescopes united in the Sun Service KRIM located in coordinates longitude 33° 59' 30" latitude 44° 23' 52", conducts simultaneous observations in the wavelength range from 8 mm to 1.2 m in the monitoring mode and alerts. The Sun Service KRIM registered a series of strong outbreaks in the Sun in September 2017, when it was at a minimum of its activity. The information obtained by radio telescopes correlates well with data from other terrestrial and satellite observatories such as RSTN and GOES. Correlation coefficients are calculated and scattering diagrams for X-ray class flares X9.3 and X2.2 are constructed. The information from the radio telescopes of the Sun Service KRIM allows them to be used for daily monitoring of solar activity, further processing of data obtained in the course of scientific research, short-term forecast of space weather and analysis of its infuence on the Earth.

Seti Space Missions

1997 ◽  
Vol 161 ◽  
pp. 761-776 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudio Maccone
Keyword(s):  
Electromagnetic Waves ◽  
Space Missions ◽  
Gravitational Lens ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Space Antenna ◽  
Focal Distance ◽  
Large Space ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Space Antennas ◽  
New Space

AbstractSETI from space is currently envisaged in three ways: i) by large space antennas orbiting the Earth that could be used for both VLBI and SETI (VSOP and RadioAstron missions), ii) by a radiotelescope inside the Saha far side Moon crater and an Earth-link antenna on the Mare Smythii near side plain. Such SETIMOON mission would require no astronaut work since a Tether, deployed in Moon orbit until the two antennas landed softly, would also be the cable connecting them. Alternatively, a data relay satellite orbiting the Earth-Moon Lagrangian pointL2would avoid the Earthlink antenna, iii) by a large space antenna put at the foci of the Sun gravitational lens: 1) for electromagnetic waves, the minimal focal distance is 550 Astronomical Units (AU) or 14 times beyond Pluto. One could use the huge radio magnifications of sources aligned to the Sun and spacecraft; 2) for gravitational waves and neutrinos, the focus lies between 22.45 and 29.59 AU (Uranus and Neptune orbits), with a flight time of less than 30 years. Two new space missions, of SETI interest if ET’s use neutrinos for communications, are proposed.

Spots on the Sun and Life on the Earth

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-77
Author(s):  
Valentina V. Ukraintseva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Sun ◽  
The Earth

Much Ado about (Practically) Nothing

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Fisher
Keyword(s):  
Energy Source ◽  
Atomic Nucleus ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
Rare Gases ◽  
Important Work ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Life On Mars ◽  
The Universe

There are eight columns in the Periodic Table. The eighth column is comprised of the rare gases, so-called because they are the rarest elements on earth. They are also called the inert or noble gases because, like nobility, they do no work. They are colorless, odorless, invisible gases which do not react with anything, and were thought to be unimportant until the early 1960s. Starting in that era, David Fisher has spent roughly fifty years doing research on these gases, publishing nearly a hundred papers in the scientific journals, applying them to problems in geophysics and cosmochemistry, and learning how other scientists have utilized them to change our ideas about the universe, the sun, and our own planet. Much Ado about (Practically) Nothing will cover this spectrum of ideas, interspersed with the author's own work which will serve to introduce each gas and the important work others have done with them. The rare gases have participated in a wide range of scientific advances-even revolutions-but no book has ever recorded the entire story. Fisher will range from the intricacies of the atomic nucleus and the tiniest of elementary particles, the neutrino, to the energy source of the stars; from the age of the earth to its future energies; from life on Mars to cancer here on earth. A whole panoply that has never before been told as an entity.

Dombey and Son

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Dickens ◽  
Dennis Walder
Keyword(s):  
Family Relationships ◽  
The Sun ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Future ◽  
Original Illustrations ◽  
The One

Dombey and Son ... Those three words conveyed the one idea of Mr. Dombey's life. The earth was made for Dombey and Son to trade in, and the sun and moon were made to give them light.' The hopes of Mr Dombey for the future of his shipping firm are centred on his delicate son Paul, and Florence, his devoted daughter, is unloved and neglected. When the firm faces ruin, and Dombey's second marriage ends in disaster, only Florence has the strength and humanity to save her father from desolate solitude. This new edition contains Dickens's prefaces, his working plans, and all the original illustrations by ‘Phiz’. The text is that of the definitive Clarendon edition. It has been supplemented by a wide-ranging Introduction, highlighting Dickens's engagement with his times, and the touching exploration of family relationships which give the novel added depth and relevance.

scholarly journals III. On the nature and construction of the sun and fixed stars

1795 ◽  
Vol 85 ◽  
pp. 46-72 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Central Body ◽  
Planetary System ◽  
Considerable Progress ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Great Satisfaction ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
Celestial Bodies ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Made In

Among the celestial bodies the sun is certainly the first which should attract our notice. It is a fountain of light that illuminates the world! it is the cause of that heat which main­tains the productive power of nature, and makes the earth a fit habitation for man! it is the central body of the planetary system; and what renders a knowledge of its nature still more interesting to us is, that the numberless stars which compose the universe, appear, by the strictest analogy, to be similar bodies. Their innate light is so intense, that it reaches the eye of the observer from the remotest regions of space, and forcibly claims his notice. Now, if we are convinced that an inquiry into the nature and properties of the sun is highly worthy of our notice, we may also with great satisfaction reflect on the considerable progress that has already been made in our knowledge of this eminent body. It would require a long detail to enumerate all the various discoveries which have been made on this subject; I shall, therefore, content myself with giving only the most capital of them.

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