Category: Solar System
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Blog 2 – Aristotle and Plato’s cosmology
Aristotle and Plato were both influential ancient Greek philosophers. While they made great contributions to the field of philosophy and politics, their views about the universe also had lasting impacts on Western history. In this blog, I want to share and compare the cosmologies put furth by the two philosophers based on what I learnt…
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Blog 1 – Size of celestial objects
In this blog, I want to share a Youtube video about the comparison of the sizes of various celestial bodies in the universe, from the smallest particles in the microworld to enormous galaxies. In the last two weeks of class, we learned about the mathematical expressions for astronomical distances. However, from my personal perspective, these…
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