The Depth of Heavens - ku
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The Depth of Heavens Belief and Knowledge during 2500 Years
Erik Høg
Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen
Content:• The universe, as we know: 14 billion years old• Dante’s universe, 700 years ago: Divine Comedy• Science, how we came to know:
From the Greeks to Tycho Brahe and our time
Lecture in Copenhagen, Vilnius, Nikolaev, Athens, Catania, Madrid at ESAC, Paris
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The Disc of Heavens from GermanyThe Nebra disc
1600 B.C. early bronze age.
Sun, Moon, and stars
First known image of the cosmos.
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What is in the Heavens ?For man at all times :
• Moon, Sun , planets, stars
For Christians in Antiquity and Middle Ages :
• furthermoreGod, the angels, the saints
For modern astronomers:
• Moon, Sun, planets, stars+ star clusters, galaxies, dust, gas
+ white dwarfs, neutron stars, black holes
+ quasars, invisible Dark Matter ….
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Crab Nebula - Dust and gas at distance 3400 light years
A supernova exploded here in the year 1054 ADseen by astronomers in China and Japan
Stars do cosmic recycling :Hydrogen Energy + Heavy elements
Some stars liveonly 10 mio. years !
Through hundreds ofgenerations of stars9 billion years after Big Bang
Sun + EarthMan
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Andromeda galaxywith two dwarf galaxies
100 billion stars= 20 stars for every
person on Earth
Distance =2.2 million light years
1 light year =9,500,000,000,000 km
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The whole universe is about 14 billion yearsIt began with the Big Bang
Hubble Space Telescope:The faintest galaxies are seen 13 billion years back
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Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)The Divine Comedy (1307-1320)
Empyreum with God, angels, and saints
Celestial Spheresof fixed stars, planets, and Moon
Spherical Earth withPurgatory mountainopposite to Jerusalemand Hell inside Earth
UNIVERSE:
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Dante’s UniverseEmpyreum
Stars
Sun
Moon
Earth rad.=6400 km
Jerusalem
Ptolemy True valueStars 20,000 > 10,000
million
Sun 1210 25,000
Moon 33-64 60 Earth rad.
Earth radius = 6400 km
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Dante’s HellThe forest Jerusalem
KokytosLucifer
Murderers
The most evil
Lucifer
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Dante and Vergilwith Lucifer
Sandro Botticelli ~1500: Divina Commedia
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Dante and Beatrice towards the Moon
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Dante with Beatrice and lunar spirits
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Dante and Beatrice with the stars
2020
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What is in the Heavens ?For man at all times:
• Moon, Sun , planets, stars
For Christians in Antiquity and Middle Ages :
• furthermoreGod, the angels, the saints
For modern astronomers :
• Moon, Sun, planets, stars+ star clusters, galaxies, dust, gas + white dwarfs, neutron stars, black holes + quasars, invisible Dark Matter ….
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The Disc of Heavens from GermanyThe Nebra disc
1600 B.C. early bronze age.
Sun, Moon, and stars
First known image of the cosmos.
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A historical overview of science
Physics is simple, contrary to e.g. meteorology or biology
Philosophy and science Babylonians and Greeks
- 3300 Babylon: 60-base numerals; mathematics and astronomy
- 570 Thales: Everything is water; natural explanations
- 450 Anaxagoras: The sun is a glowing rock as big as Peloponnisos
- 350 Aristotle: Causes; time is cyclic
- 250 Archimedes: Mathematical description of measuresnot causes
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The Greek Cosmos
~ 500 B.C.
The Earth consistsof earth, water,
air, andfire
Around the Earth are spheres
with Moon, planets, Sunand stars
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Plato’s distance scale for the planets ~ 400 B.C.
Moon Sun Venus Mercury Mars Jupiter Saturn
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Plato and Aristotle~ 350 B.C.
Aristotle:
CausesTheory for the universeTime is cyclicSpeculation !An ingenious attempt
Archimedes:
Mathematical descriptionof measures – not causes.E.g. Theory of equilibrium:Eternal law of nature !
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School of Athens painted by Raphael 1510
Aristotle
Newton 1687Laws of naturefor motion
Archimedes ~ 250 B.C.Laws of naturefor equilibrium
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Ptolemy measuring~150 AD
From G. Reisch, 1512
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DeferentEpicycle
Nr. 2
PlanetNr.1
Earth
Planet
Ptolemy: Circles, epicyclesAll the heavens rotate in 24 hoursaround the fixed and non-rotating Earth
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The Arabs:
Translation of Greek textsand Science
Our arabic numerals: from India to Europe:
500 In India: ”Position” numerals: e.g. 0, 10, 203820 Al-Khwarizmi: Algorithm; astronomy
1021 Alhazen: Book on light and optics
1085 Toledo taken by Christians: large Arab library1120 In Europe:
Al-Khwarizmi’s book on algebra is translated
Harun al Rashid766 - 809
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God as the architectof the world
from a Middle Age Bibleca. 1250Codex Vindobonensis
And: Men of churchhad time to thinkand to teach
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DeferentEpicycle
Nr. 2
PlanetNr.1
Earth
Planet
Ptolemy: Circles, epicyclesand a non-rotating Earth
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New theory of the universe:
The Sun is at the centre,NOT the Earth
The Earth circles the Sun in a year
andthe Earth rotates in 24 hours
Copernicus 1473 - 1543
Copernicus 1514 and 1543after Aristarch of Samos ~310-230 B.C.
The Sun and two planetsHeliocentric system
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NovaR.A. 0.5 hDec. 63 deg
Moon’s horiz. parallax6000 km/380,000 km=0.016=0.9 deg
Cassiopeia
~8 p.m.Pole
11 Nov. 1572Nova Stella
Tycho Brahe measured the nova:Larger distance than the Moon
He concluded in 1572:This is a miraclea sign from God
We say:He tipped the
antique picture of the world
~8 a.m.
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Tycho Braheon Hven1576-97
A barrel of gold
Sextant 1580
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Kepler 1619 Harmonices Mundi
Kepler found ~70 laws for the motion of planets
But we usually mention only 3 of these…
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Isaac Newton 1687:Philosophiæ NaturalisPrincipia Mathematica
Mathematics 1665-66:Differential- and integral calculus
+ Clear concepts 1687:Gravity, force, acceleration,absolute time, velocity
>>> Laws of motion:
Kepler’s 3 laws; motions in the heavens and on Earth….>>> The technical revolution
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Planet sizesHuygens 1698
telescopic
Ptolemy 150 AD
naked eye
SunSaturn etc.
Star of1st mag
MarsEarth
Telescope: Galilei 1610
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Dante’s UniverseEmpyreum
Stars
Sun
Moon
Earth rad.=6400 km
Jerusalem
Ptolemy True valueStars 20,000 > 10,000
million
Sun 1210 25,000
Moon 33-64 60 Earth rad.
Earth radius = 6400 km
4040
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The Visible Universe
Copenhagen University - Erik Høg - April 2008
Year Radius – light years What / Who 150-1600 0.000,014 Sphere of stars
Ptolemy1900 30,000 Milky Way
Kapteyn
1960 2,000,000,000 Most distant galaxiesPalomar 5 meter
2006 14,000,000,000 Visible universeWMAP a.o.
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The Visible Universeis 1015 times larger
than Tycho Brahe believed1015 = 1,000,000,000,000,000 = 1 million billion times
Ptolemyca. 150 A.D.
Tycho Braheca. 1590
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The whole universe is about 14 billion years
Hubble Space Telescope:The faintest galaxies are seen 13 billion years back
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The whole universe is about 14 billion years
Hubble Space Telescope:The faintest galaxies are seen 13 billion years back
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Website: www.astro.ku.dk/~erik Read e.g.:The depth of heavens ... during 2500 years, and:The age of the world from the highest authorities