The Queen's Hair: Tale Of An Odd Constellation Called Coma Berenices But it was conon of samos, a court astronomer and mathematician, who eventually convincedthe disconsolate queen that the gods had taken the locks and put them http://www.space.com/spacewatch/coma_berenices_020419.html
Extractions: Nearly overhead at around midnight, local daylight time, is the constellation that owes its name to a theft: Coma Berenices or Berenices Hair. Eratosthenes in the 3rd century BC was among the first to make note of this faint group of stars. It is actually a large, loose galactic star cluster some 250 light years away that appears as a faint shimmering patch of light on clear moonless nights. As a cluster, Coma Berenices is by far at its best in a pair of good binoculars. If, on the other hand, you attempt observation of it with a high-powered telescope the impression of a cluster will become totally lost because of the telescopes narrower field of view. SPACEWATCH FRIDAY Visit SPACE.com each Friday to explore a new backyard astronomy feature. >>Go to Spacewatch Friday archive page
Articles It was the happy invention of this constellation by conon of samos (the royal astrologer)that consoled the royal pair after the theft of the tresses from the http://www.shamanicastrology.com/articles16.htm
Extractions: By Carolyn Brent So Below experience of this As Above bi-annual event, giving us another potent clue about the importance of this seasonal timing. This understanding may inspire each of us to tune in and discover what significance the equinox timings represent for us individually and collectively. September Equinox Details It is fascinating to note that the Zero Libra point, marking the September Equinox, is currently aligned with the North Galactic Pole. The North Galactic Pole lies 90 degrees north of the Galactic Plane in the constellation of Coma Berenices. This particular near exact alignment only happens for 144 years, during a 26,000 year cycle as the equinox and solstice points move one degree every 72 years. The exact alignment is happening now. One interpretation of the constellation Coma Berenices is that it represents long beautiful hair. Anne Wright's website on Fixed Stars gives this mythic description. This is
Berenice II Of Egypt - Wikipedia The hair having by some unknown means disappeared, conon of samos, explained thephenomenon in courtly phrase, by saying that it had been carried to the http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berenice_II_of_Egypt
Extractions: Main Page Recent changes Edit this page Older versions Special pages Set my user preferences My watchlist Recently updated pages Upload image files Image list Registered users Site statistics Random article Orphaned articles Orphaned images Popular articles Most wanted articles Short articles Long articles Newly created articles Interlanguage links All pages by title Blocked IP addresses Maintenance page External book sources Printable version Talk Other languages: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Berenice , was the daughter of Magas, king of Cyrene , and the wife of Ptolemy III Euergetes I During her husband's absence on an expedition to Syria , she dedicated her hair to Venus for his safe return, and placed it in the temple of the goddess at Zephyrium . The hair having by some unknown means disappeared, Conon of Samos , explained the phenomenon in courtly phrase, by saying that it had been carried to the heavens and placed among the stars. The name Coma Berenices or Berenice's hair , applied to a constellation , commemorates this incident.
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Archimedes Of Syracuse: Introduction the great Library of Alexandria, where Euclid had worked, and he made friendshipswith other philosophermathematicians, most notably conon of samos with whom http://cerebro.cs.xu.edu/math/math147/02f/archimedes/archintro.html
Extractions: In the third century BCE, Rome was involved in a series of military conflicts (the Punic Wars) with the Greek city-state of Carthage , situated across the Mediterranean Sea on the African coast . Caught in the middle of these conflicts was Syracuse, another city-state on the coast of Sicily, which was claimed by both sides. Initially allied with Carthage against Rome at the outset of the First Punic War in 263 BCE, Syracuse soon switched allegiance. The King of Syracuse, Hiero II , managed to keep war at bay by honoring this treaty with Rome, but the situation became precarious in the later years of the century as the Carthaginian general Hannibal was gaining the upper hand in Spain and Italy against poorly managed Roman armies. Archimedes (287 - 212 BCE), son of Phidias, an astronomer, was thought to have been a kinsman of Hiero. In his youth, Archimedes ventured to Alexandria in Egypt to avail himself of the best education to be found in the Greek world. There he would have been able to study the texts at the great Library of Alexandria, where Euclid had worked, and he made friendships with other philosopher-mathematicians, most notably Conon of Samos with whom he corresponded for many years. Archimedes eventually returned to Syracuse, where he earned fame as an "engineering consultant" to the king, inventing many clever devices for the military defense of the city: catapults, grappling hooks, and improvements to the architecture of the city walls.
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Extractions: Click here for full size picture Archimedes, the most famous ancient Greek mathematician and inventor, was born c. 290-280 BC in Syracuse, the principal city-state in Sicily. He probably spent some time in Egypt early in his career, but he resided for most of his life in Syracuse, where he was on intimate terms with its king, Hieron II. Archimedes published his works in the form of correspondence with the principal mathematicians of his time, including the Alexandrian scholars Conon of Samos and Eratosthenes of Cyrene. He played an important role in the defense of Syracuse against the siege laid by the Romans in 213 BC by constructing war machines so effective that they long delayed the capture of the city. But Syracuse was eventually captured by the Roman general Marcus Claudius Marcellus in the autumn of 212 or spring of 211 BC, and Archimedes was killed in the sack of the city. Far more details survive about the life of Archimedes than about any other ancient scientist, but they are largely anecdotal, reflecting the impression that his mechanical genius made on the popular imagination. Thus, he is credited with inventing the Archimedes screw, a device for raising water, and he is supposed to have made two "spheres" that Marcellus took back to Romeone a star globe and the other a device (the details of which are uncertain) for mechanically representing the motions of the Sun, Moon, and planets. The story that he determined the proportion of gold and silver in a wreath made for Hieron by weighing it in water is probably true, but the version that has him leaping from the bath in which he supposedly got the idea and running naked through the streets shouting "Heur
Extractions: What's new at this site on April 12, 2001 Several URLs have been updated. Chapman, Sydney (1888-1970) Clark (family) Clarke, Samuel (1675-1729) Coblentz, William Weber (1873-1962) Collins, Michael (b. 1930) Columbus, Christopher [ Span. Ital. Cristoforo Colombo; Germ. Christoph Kolumbus] (1451-1506) Conon of Samos (c. 280 BC - c. 220 BC) Short biography (Encycl. Brit.)
Extractions: What's new at this site on January 6, 2000 Astronomiae Historia / History of Astronomy started 5 years ago, on January 16, 1995. Some URLs have been updated. Babbage, Charles (1792-1871) Barnard, Edward Emerson (1857-1923) Behaim, Martin (1459-1507) Benedetti, Giovanni Battista (1530-1590) Bernoulli (family) Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm Bethe, Hans Albrecht (b. 1906) Bhaskara (1114-1185) Biot, Jean-Baptiste [Jean Baptiste] (1774-1862) Birkhoff, George David (1884-1944) Blackett, Patrick Maynard Stuart (1897-1974) Blaeu, Willem Janszoon (1571-1638)
Coma Berenices It was the astronomer conon of samos who came to their rescue proclaiming thatAphrodite had accepted the gift of Berenice's hair, which now shown brightly http://www.dibonsmith.com/com_con.htm
Extractions: 9 April The constellation Coma Berenices refers to a classical story concerning the hair of Berenice, the wife of Ptolemy III of Egypt. While the story is an old one, the constellation is relatively new, being introduced by Tycho Brahe (1546-1601). The stars that form the constellation really aren't that remarkable to look at, only a handful of fourth-magnitude stars, including three Bayer stars . Yet there are several fine binaries, eight Messier objects and the Coma Star cluster, not included in Messier's list.
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Extractions: Astronomy column for 4/29/2001 Bernice's Hair The bright star Arcturus in the constellation Bootes is rising in the east right now, a sure sign that spring is finally here and that summer can't be far behind. Above Arcturus is one of the strangest sights in the sky a large fuzzy patch that resolves into a dozen or so stars for the sharp-eyed observer. The simplest pair of binoculars will reveal even more stars. The constellation associated with the fuzzy patch, called Coma Berenices, has a long and checkered history. Few fuzzy patches get their own names, let alone their own constellations. Coma Berenices, or Berenice's Hair, did, but it took a long time to get there. Also, virtually all the constellations are named after great heroes, animal and human, from ancient mythology. Coma is the only constellation named after a real, historical person. For the longest time, Berenice's Hair wasn't considered a constellation at all. The ancient Greeks hooked the fuzzy patch up with nearby Leo, the Lion, picturing it as a puff of fur at the end of the lion's tail. By 150 AD, Ptolemy, the greatest of the Greek astronomers, refers to the stars as "a nebulous mass, called the lock,", i.e., of hair. Even earlier, around 200 BCE, the Greek scientist and writer Eristosthenes identified the puff of stars as Berenice's Hair in his famous work on constellation science and mythology called The Catasterisms. Both astronomers worked in Alexandria, the great seat of ancient scholarship at the mouth of the Nile River in northern Egypt. The Berenice in question must surely be Queen Berenice II of Egypt, who lived during the third century BCE, just before Eristosthenes wrote his book. By the first century AD, the designation was set forever by the Roman poet Hyginus in his Poetic Astronomy, even though he still considered the star patch as part of Leo. It took another 1500 years for the stellar grouping to become a constellation in its own right. In 1551, the Dutch star mapper Gerardus Mercator grabbed a few nearby stars and combined them with the fuzzy patch to form the official constellation Coma Berenices. In the process, the lion finally lost its tail. The real mystery is how the stars got to be associated with the hair of an ancient Egyptian Queen in the first place. About Queen Berenice little is known. During the third century BCE, she was first the sister and then the wife of the Egyptian pharaoh Ptolemy III Euergetes. (The pharaohs often married their close relatives to keep the royal bloodline pure.) Berenice was something of a warrior and horsewoman, distinguishing herself in battle before she married Ptolemy. According to Hyginus, Ptolemy left his new wife just a few days after their nuptials to make war on Asia. Berenice vowed to the gods that she would cut off her hair if Ptolemy returned safely. This had to be considered a major sacrifice. She was apparently quite attached to her long, amber-colored tresses. At the pharaoh's safe return, the now-hairless Berenice placed her hair on the altar of the temple dedicated to her mother Arisinoe. The next day, the hair was gone. The temple priests clearly had some serious explaining to do to a very angry pharaoh and a very bald queen. Conon of Samos, an astronomer and mathematician who who worked in Alexandria, came up with the life-saving solution. He pointed to the fuzzy patch at the tail of Leo and told the royal couple that Berenice's hair had gone to join the stars. The story has the ring of truth to it. We can imagine a desperate Conon in fear of his life raising his eyes toward heaven for inspiration and finding there a glorious patch of light.
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Extractions: These daring words were made by a man whose genius changed the worlds of science and math forever. Many historians consider Archimedes to be one of the greatest scientists in history and the greatest mathematician of all time. Archimedes' contributions to science and math include the discovery and development of the laws and principles of mechanics, buoyancy, hydrostatics, specific gravity, the lever, and the pulley; in addition, he discovered how to find the measurement of a circle and the volume of a solid. These discoveries and other inventions were the life and love of Archimedes. Archimedes grew up in the Greek city-state of Syracuse on the island of Sicily. His father was an astronomer named Phidias. Archimedes is known to be a relative of Hiero II, who was the king of Syracuse during Archimedes' life. Hiero and Archimedes were very close friends. However, nothing else is known about any other members of Archimedes' family. Archimedes lived in Syracuse for his whole life, except for when he went to school in Alexandria, and at one point it was up to Archimedes' inventions to save Syracuse from being taken by the Romans. Archimedes had a good education as a boy, for the Greeks loved knowledge and sent their sons to schools to become knowledgeable Greek citizens. Some of the subjects that he studied as a boy were poetry, politics, astronomy, mathematics, music, art, and military tactics. When Archimedes was in his teens he sailed to Egypt to study in Alexandria. There he went to a famous school of mathematics that had been founded by Euclid. Archimedes studied astronomy, physics, and mathematics with many other great minds of the time. His teacher was named Conon of Samos. Conon was one of the greatest influences that Archimedes had in his life. He taught Archimedes many things about life and science. Archimedes' studies in Alexandria became the foundation on which he built his career as a scientist and mathematician.
The Equiangular Spiral Spira Mirabilis Building upon the work of conon of samos, Archimedes of Syracuse wrote adefinitive early work on the subject in 250 BC entitled On Spirals. http://online.redwoods.cc.ca.us/instruct/darnold/CalcProj/Sp98/GabeP/Spiral.htm
Extractions: Gabriel Peterson The Equiangular Spiral: Spira Mirabilis Gabriel Peterson Math 50C: Multivariable Calculus Abstract The purpose of this article is to develop the parametric equation for the plane curve of the equiangular spiral also known as the logarithmic spiral or the logistique from its geometric definition. Through analysis, it was found to be where a is an arbitrary constant and a is a constant angle made between the radial vector to any point on the curve and the tangent line at that point. Introduction Most readers will have had at least some informal introduction to the elegant beauty of the spiral prior to reading this. Certainly, most will have witnessed the sublime geometry of a spiral in the vortex of water rushing down a drain, the tempest of a hurricane, the hypnotic pattern of a magicians spiral, the shape of a snails shell, the inscrutable movement of the arms of a spiral galaxy like our own... The formal mathematical study of spirals as did so many other rich intellectual traditions present today began with the ancient Greeks. Building upon the work of Conon of Samos, Archimedes of Syracuse wrote a definitive early work on the subject in 250 BC entitled On Spirals.
Lunar Crater Statistics 167.3W. 57. Sir William; British rocket engineer, inventor (17721828). . Conon.21.6N. 2.0E. 21. conon of samos; Greek astronomer (c. 260 BC). Cook. 17.5S. 48.9E.46. http://lunar.arc.nasa.gov/science/atlas/text/cratertex_c.html
Extractions: A B C D ... Main Menu Latin Name Lat Long Diam Origin C.Herschel Caroline; British astronomer (1750-1848). C.Mayer "Christian; German astronomer, mathematician, physicist (1719-178" Cabannes Jean; French physicist (1885-1959). Cabeus "Cabeo, Niccolo; Italian astronomer (1586-1650)." Cailleux A Andre; French geologist (1907-1986). Cajal Santiago Ramon Y; Spanish doctor; Nobel laureate (1852-1934). Cajori Florian; American mathematician (1859-1930). Calippus Calippus of Cyzicus; Greek astronomer (c. 330 B.C.).
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Extractions: Latin Name Lat Long Diam Origin C.Herschel Caroline; British astronomer (1750-1848). C.Mayer "Christian; German astronomer, mathematician, physicist (1719-178" Cabannes Jean; French physicist (1885-1959). Cabeus "Cabeo, Niccolo; Italian astronomer (1586-1650)." Cailleux A Andre; French geologist (1907-1986). Cajal Santiago Ramon Y; Spanish doctor; Nobel laureate (1852-1934). Cajori Florian; American mathematician (1859-1930). Calippus Calippus of Cyzicus; Greek astronomer (c. 330 B.C.). Cameron Robert Curry; American astronomer (1925-1972). Camoens Luis de; Portugueseauthor (1524-1530). Campanus "Campano, Giovanni; Italian astronomer (c. 1200-unkn)." Campbell Leon; American astronomer (1881-1951); William W.; American astrono Cannizzaro Stanislao; Italian chemist (1826-1910). Cannon Annie J.; American astronomer (1863-1941). Cantor Georg; German mathematician (1845-1918); Moritz; German mathe Capella Martianus; Roman astronomer (c. A.D. 400-unkn).
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Extractions: Return to news service home Today's news News clips archive News digest News release archives Subscribe to online publications Frequently asked questions Beats Tips sheet Experts database Famous U of M alumni and faculty APRIL An unexpected visitor has shown up in our neighborhood. Comet Ikeya-Zhang (ee-KAY-uh JONG), now low over the northwest horizon after sunset, can be spotted with binoculars against dark skies. It careened around the sun March 18 and is now heading away from Earth. The comet reached its maximum brightness in late March, but should be visible for much of April. Ikeya-Zhang, discovered independently by two amateur astronomers, appears to be the same as a comet first spotted in 1661. Now, 341 years later, it's again swooping through our sector of the solar system. Look for Ikeya-Zhang on the 5th, when it will be close to the Andromeda galaxy, a fuzzy patch between the Great Square of Pegasus and Cassiopeia's Chair. The comet will next pass between Cassiopeia and Deneb, the brightest star in Cygnus, on its way toward Draco. It will be up all night in late April for observers in most of the United States and all of Canada and Europe. On the 30th it will pass closest to Earth, 38 million miles away. A chart of its location is on the Web at www.rog.nmm.ac.uk/leaflets/images/comets/ikeya_zhang/ikeya_zhang.gif
~From Baal To Bukadawin~ The astronomer, conon of samos, declared it had been wafted to heaven. Hencethe constellation Coma Berenices, hair of Berenice, near that of Leo. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Sparta/6787/b.html
Extractions: Balder- In Norse mythology, the god of light and peace, son of Odin and Frigga. His mother asked everything in the world (animate and inanimate) to swear an oath that they would not harm her son. But the mistletoe was neglected in swearing this oath and Loki, the god of mischief and lies, was jealous of Balder. So he gave a dart of mistletoe to Hoder, the blind god of darkness, and aimed it at Balder. He died and the city of Asgard mourned. Hel, the queen of the underworld, allowed Balder to return to Asgard on the condition that every object in the world weep for him. Only Loki refused to shed a tear and the gods imprisoned him in a magic net and bound him to three stones. Balder was therefore condemned to die.
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BREWER: Dictionary Of Phrase And Fable, 125-126 She suspended her hair in the temple of the wargod, but it was stolen the firstnight, and conon of samos told the king that the winds had wafted it to heaven http://www.bootlegbooks.com/Reference/PhraseAndFable/data/125.html
Extractions: Hazlitt: Table Talk. They fool me to the top of my bent, i.e. as far as the bow can be bent without snapping. ( Hamlet, iii. 2.) ( See Bend. Benvolio Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, iii. 1.) Beppo The contraction of Giuseppe, and therefore equal to our Joe. Husband of Laura, a Venetian lady. He was taken captive in Troy, turned Turk, joined a band of pirates, grew rich, and, after several years' absence, returned to his native land, where he discovered his wife at a carnival ball with her cavaliero servente. He made himself known to her, and they lived together again as man and wife. ( Byron: Beppo.
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