Sentence examples for celestial observation from inspiring English sources
The middle-ages model was based on the principles of Ptolemy, and hundreds of years of celestial observation.
But the celestial observation that seemed most remarkable to me is this one, from 9 February 1774: "Venus is very bright, & makes strong shadows on the floors & walls".
No sophisticated astronomical instruments were necessary to observe the regular waxing and waning of the moon, and so it is the earth's satellite itself that is considered to be the earliest instrument of celestial observation.
Concern for good relations with heaven is reflected as well in the massive body of Mesopotamian texts devoted to celestial observation, astronomical theory, and astrological lore, all of which served to discern and cope with the perceived influence of heaven on human affairs.
Godwin's book appeared in a time of great interest in the Moon and other astronomical phenomena, important developments in the technique of celestial observation, and equally important developments in mathematics and mechanics.
It was there in the 6th century that Arya Bhata, the most famous Indian astronomer of yore, supposedly undertook his celestial observations.
A detailed study is made of celestial observations recorded in East Asian and European history around A.D. 774 5 and 993 4.
Kepler's reformation of astronomy was of a piece with his reform of astrology's principles and Tycho's radical improvement of the celestial observations.
During the engineering run we achieved significant milestones in our instrumentation development efforts, including celestial observations with a monolithically fabricated TES bolometer array cooled with a mechanical cooler and successful implementation of a SQUID-based MHz AC-biased readout.
Because the uncertainty of dead reckoning increases over time and maybe over distance, celestial observations are taken intermittently to determine a more reliable position (called a fix), from which a new dead reckoning is begun.
As he prepares to publish his decades of celestial observations, Tycho hopes to prove that all the planets except Earth revolve around the Sun, which in turn revolves around the Earth.
