Sentence examples for a planetary model from inspiring English sources

"His work on a star catalogue, a planetary model, and a world map were all merges of collected data into a grand scheme".

This led Rutherford to propose a planetary model in which a cloud of electrons surrounded a small, compact nucleus of positive charge.

In 499 CE, the Indian astronomer Aryabhata propounded a planetary model that explicitly incorporated Earth's rotation about its axis, which he explains as the cause of what appears to be an apparent westward motion of the stars.

In his Aryabhatiyabhasya, a commentary on Aryabhata's Aryabhatiya, he developed a planetary model where Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn orbit the Sun, which in turn orbits Earth, similar to the Tychonic system later proposed by Tycho Brahe in the late 16th century.

Instead of bands, Plato's student Eudoxus developed a planetary model using concentric spheres for all the planets, with three spheres each for his models of the Moon and the Sun and four each for the models of the other five planets, thus making 26 spheres in all.

For Galileo, this shift was also from a mathematical planetary model to a physically realizable cosmography.

In his 2nd century work the Almagest, the Hellenistic astronomer Claudius Ptolemaeus constructed a geocentric planetary model based on deferents and epicycles to explain Jupiter's motion relative to the Earth, giving its orbital period around the Earth as 4332.38 days, or 11.86 years.

) In India, the Kerala school astronomer Nilakantha Somayaji in the 15th century developed a partially heliocentric planetary model in which Mercury orbits the Sun, which in turn orbits Earth, similar to the Tychonic system later proposed by Tycho Brahe in the late 16th century.

The vision of NASA World Wind is to provide a high-performance open-source 3D planetary model with a large collection of components for projecting images, geometric objects and geographic shapes on the model.

The authors built a planetary evolution model to show how these processes relate and found that if continental weathering and erosion rates decreased, at first the continents would remain large.

Rather, a designer is likely to reach for the planetary model of the atom, the familiar image in which little electrons whiz around a nucleus like marbles on roller coaster tracks.