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.... ³ For a decade she assisted him, playing the harpsichord and singing at his concerts. During the 1770s, the two siblings became interested in making telescopes. Caroline was especially good at grinding and polishing mirrors. In all, the two produced around 400 telescope mirrors and sold 60 complete...

... and space telescopes are often introduced in the media, and governments around the world are investing huge budgets in the development of advanced science and technology in physics. That is to say, physics is crucial in achieving SL these days. Emerging New Literacies in the Societies The American Library...

... of the James Webb Space Telescope one million miles away from Earth and to ask internet search engines for “espresso near me.” The principle of relativity, articulated by Galileo and refined by Einstein, connects in profound ways to nearly all theoretical frameworks in physics, making it a focal target...

... elements of some representative physical systems like space-based telescopes, missile defence systems, gravity wave observatories, particle accelerators or even teaching experiments are likely instead to remind us of the extraordinary social and financial resources that each requires to deliver...

... Children and adults interact with physics phenomena and ideas through diverse interactions such as cooking in their kitchen, observing seagulls fly at the beach, reading social media and listening to podcasts, looking through telescopes at stargazing events, visiting museums, or engaging in a club...

... Telescope Collaboration in 2019 (Fig. 16.5 ). Why were the production and circulation of this photograph celebrated as a great achievement in the history of physics? Historian of science Peter Galison finds the answer to this question in the argumentative function of the photograph. Attaching...

... the reflecting telescope, explaining the separation of light into colors, co-inventing calculus, discovering a general form of the mathematical binomial theorem, ³ estimating the speed of sound, devising a way to approximate roots (square roots, cubed roots, and so forth...

... for flat/smooth solid surfaces, is the drop profile method. The contact angle is determined directly by analyzing the droplet profile. A drop is deposited on a smooth surface and the profile of the drop is measured using a telescope goniometer ( Bigelow et al., 1946 ). The real-time image...

...Tycho Brahe, ¹ or in Danish, Tyge Brahe (1546–1601), was one of the best observational astronomers of all time. This is especially remarkable because his observations preceded the invention of the telescope. The accuracy of astronomical measurements with telescopes had to wait a century...

... for today of 5 K (Kelvin degrees), five degrees above absolute zero. If this “cosmic background temperature” could be measured, it would finally confirm his Big-Bang-primordial-hot-universe theory. In 1965, Arno Penzias and Robert Woodrow Wilson carried out just such a measurement with a radio telescope...

... were redone with much stronger telescopes. There is no doubt that Burbidge was one of the greatest spectroscopists of all time. One of her and Geoffrey's spectroscopic successes was an analysis of a well-known “magnetic variable star,” ⁵ alpha² Canum Venaticorum ⁶...

..., Rubin received the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society, only the second woman with this honor, 168 years after Caroline Herschel received the medal in 1828. Rubin died in 2016. On December 20, 2019, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope on a mountain in Cerro Pachon in Chile was renamed...

... with another pamphlet where he fought with “Mauri” and identified him as Galileo, but Colombe had Aristotle and, therefore, the Church on his side. Galileo went on to dig himself into a deeper hole. While he did not invent the telescope, ⁴ he was the first to use it extensively to study the sky...