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...shared observations. Manuscripts depicting the movements of the Moon and planets found in Arabic and Indian astronomy, which had been shaped by the discoveries of Babylon, also show up in Chinese studies of the heavens. A likely product of this cumulative knowledge is an early chart of the night sky found in the Chinese city of Dunhuang in Gansu province. The manuscript, which closely resembles a projection developed eight centuries later by the Flemish cartographer, Gerardus Mercator, accurately depicts 1,500 stars that are all recognizable today...
...Once people start seeing that all these people are getting married and the sky is not falling, I think it will become a non-issue,” she said...
After the Boston Globe featured a story on Winthrop and Harvard’s commemorations of his observations as the lead story in its science section last week, Sky and Telescope magazine and amateur telescope makers in Boston contacted Schechner to be part of the event...
...sky begins to turn that pale shade of gray that heralds the rising sun. The birds begin to chirp. Inside, you feel the giddy lightness that springs from a mix of fatigue, anxiety and satisfaction—fatigue from lack of sleep; anxiety about the work you have not done and will not get to do; satisfaction at having made it through the night. You are happy but horrified to be awake...
...almost as slowly as the date wheel on my father's Timex. There were so few other drivers on the highway that my brother and I could wave to all of them. As for oil, we assumed it all came from Texas, gushing up black into a clear blue sky while men in white cowboy hats whistled, cheered and hollered. My favorite thing, though, was that chain of service stations with the big green dinosaurs out front...