8 sentences with 'astronomers'
Example sentences and phrases with the word astronomers and other words derived from it.
• « Based on his observations, later astronomers have gained valuable information about our natural satellite, the moon. »
• « The Mesopotamians were the first great astronomers who accurately mapped the movement of the stars and recorded them on star charts. »
• « The Babylonians inherited the scientific traditions of ancient Mesopotamia, becoming the greatest astronomers and mathematicians yet seen, able to predict eclipses and keep very detailed calendars. »
• « Hellenistic astronomers also refined calculations associated with the size of the Earth; an astronomer named Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the Earth to be only 200 miles away. »
• « This is evident not only with Newton, but with other scientists of the time - many were astronomers and astrologers, just as many were mathematicians and engineers as well as alchemists. »
• « When the astronomers of the Scientific Revolution began to detect irregularities in the heavens, this totally contradicted the way most educated people thought and had thought about the essential features of the universe. »
• « Medieval astronomers tried to explain these differences by increasingly elaborate caveats and modifications to the idea of simple perfect orbits, positing the existence of enormously complex paths supposedly taken by various celestial objects. »
• « The background radiation from the Big Bang, discovered by the two New Jersey radio astronomers in 1965, caused concern because it had the same temperature (about 270°C. below zero) in all directions. This implied that the Big Bang was even and uniform. But Hawking and others had predicted that, in order for clouds of gas to form - which would then contract, cool and clump together under gravity - the explosion must have had fluctuations. »