HERCULES, in Astronomy

hûrˈkyəlēzˌ, in astronomy, northern constellation located between Lyra and Corona Borealis. It is traditionally depicted as the hero Hercules in a kneeling position. There are no very bright stars in Hercules and only three of third magnitude, the brightest of which, Ras Algethi (Alpha Herculis), is a red giant and possibly the largest visible star in the sky. The constellation contains the globular star cluster M13, barely visible to the naked eye but spectacular even in a small telescope. Hercules reaches its highest point in the evening sky in late July.

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books on: Hercules in Astronomy  - 156 results

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Popular Astronomy: Being the New Descriptive Astronomy
Book by Joel Dorman Steele; American Book Company, 1899
Subjects: Astronomy
...most distinguished heroes of mythology were among his pupils. He taught AEsculapius physic; Apollo, music; and Hercules, astronomy. Capricornus contains no very conspicuous stars. The Southern Fish Map No. 6 has one star of the first magnitude...
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Cleomedes' Lectures on Astronomy: A Translation of the Heavens
Book by Alan C. Bowen, Robert B. Todd, Cleomedes; University of California Press, 2004
Subjects: Astronomy, Greek, Astronomy--Early Works To 1800
...that Philosophy summons Hercules and Herculean men...has nothing to do with astronomy, let alone with philosophy...seventh cent. b.c. and Hercules was standard; see...Juvenal 10.361 362. On Hercules club and skin as symbols...298 and 299. 114 Astronomy, this sentence implies...
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Greek Astronomy
Book by Thomas L. Heath; Toronto, J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd.; E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc., 1932
Subjects: Astronomy, Greek, Astronomy--Early Works To 1800
...Ecphantus, 94 Egyptians: astronomy, xiii , xv , liv -lv, 82...Engonasin the Kneeler , the star Hercules, 114 , 119 Epicurus, xxviii...118 Geminus: on physics and astronomy, 123 -5; the zodiac, sun...xiv , 1 , 2 , 7 Hesiod: astronomy in, xii ; Astronomy , xix...
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Astronomy through the Ages: The Story of the Human Attempt to Understand the Universe
Book by Robert Wilson; Taylor & Francis, 1997
Subjects: Astronomy--History
...unstable. But their great importance to astronomy was their ability to determine distance...period-luminosity law, and its value to astronomy will become apparent. There is one star...the direction of the constellation of Hercules, so in ten years it will have moved...
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A Dictionary of Astronomy
Book by Ian Ridpath; Oxford University Press, 1997
Subjects: Astronomy--Dictionaries
...to England the previous year, took up astronomy, observing with the first of many telescopes...the Sun is moving towards a point in Hercules. In 1800, using a thermometer and prisms...Catalogue . His other contributions to astronomy included one of the first measurements...
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Widmung, Welterklarung Und Wissenschaftslegitimierung: Titelbilder Und Ihre Funktionen in der Wissenschaftlichen Revolution
Journal article by Adam Mosley; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 60, 2007
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Widmung, Welterklarung und Wissenschaftslegitimierung: Titelbilder und ihre Funktionen in der Wissenschaftlichen Revolution (Book)--Book reviews
...nobility and antiquity of astronomy and the transition from one...texts on Claviuss geocentric astronomy. In seeking to break through...the figures of Atlas and Hercules as mythical practitioners of astronomy, and in the sixth he discusses...
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Creative Partners: The Marriage of Laura Battiferra and Bartolomeo Ammannati *
Journal article by Victoria Kirkham; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 55, 2002
Subjects: Aristocracy--Social aspects, Italy--16th century AD, Sculptors--Behavior
...that her Phidias plans to sculpt him as Hercules (a descendant of Alceus, hence "Alcides...already existing Neptune and the projected Hercules, since each one asserts Christian dominance...fountain by Tribolo at Gasrello with his Hercules and Antaeus. (22.) Vasari, Vita...
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Johann Valentin Andreae's Utopian Brotherhoods
Journal article by Donald R. Dickson; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 49, 1996
Subjects: Andreae, Johann Valentin--Conduct of life, Church history--Modern period, 1500-
...interest in mathematics and astronomy under Michael Mastlin (1550...knowledge and fervant piety," a Hercules Christianus with whom he wanted...logic, arithmetic, music, astronomy, natural science, ethics...saw himself as a Christian Hercules capable of rescuing church...
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Altruism and the Art of Writing: Plato, Cicero, and Leo Strauss
Journal article by William H. F. Altman; Humanitas, Vol. 22, 2009
Subjects: Altruism (Human behavior)--Analysis, Altruism--Analysis, Cicero, Marcus Tullius--Criticism and interpretation, Philosophers--Criticism and interpretation, Plato--Criticism and interpretation, Strauss, Leo--Criticism and interpretation
...enduring the labours aerumnas of Hercules to bring it aid and succour in its...where Socratic arguments against astronomy placed in the mouths of Ciceros...a result of giving birth--to Hercules in the lost Consolatio (Lactantius...
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The Greek Manner and a Christian Canon: Francois Duquesnoy's Saint Susanna
Journal article by Estelle Lingo; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 84, 2002
Subjects: Art criticism, Art history, Duquesnoy, Francois (1597-1643), Sculpture, Visual artists
...celebrated nude figures, such as the Farnese Hercules and the Borghese Gladiator.4 In the...as a pendant to a Hellenistic bronze Hercules in his collection.55 Through a subtle...identified at that time as the Muse of astronomy, enjoyed considerable popularity throughout...
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The Not-so-mighty Hercules
Magazine article by Joe Rao; Natural History, Vol. 107, June 1998
Subjects: Astronomy, Constellations
The Not-so-mighty Hercules by Joe Rao On June evenings, the constellation Hercules is high in the eastern sky. Its stars are said...Arabic for "head of the kneeler") marks Hercules head. Its color is a result of its relatively...
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Astronomy's Next Big Things These 10 Telescopes Won't Just Revolutionize Our Understanding of the Cosmos, They'll Change Everything We Think a Telescope Can Be
Magazine article by William Speed Weed; Popular Science, Vol. 266, April 2005
Subjects: Astronomy, Telescopes
...age, the center pole of the astronomy tent. Astronomers have one...telescope, but it doesnt have Hercules NASA behind it. The consortium...Universities for Research in Astronomy, and the Association of Canadian...Universities for Research in Astronomy--relies on the National...
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The Shapley-curtis Debate
Magazine article by Neil de Grasse Tyson; Natural History, Vol. 104, May 1995
Subjects: Astronomy, Curtis, Heber D, Shapley, Harlow (1885-1972), Stars & galaxies
...cluster called M13 in the constellation Hercules: Shapley 1915--100,000 light...Shapley, The great globular cluster in Hercules is a vast sidereal organization. When...University of Chicagos Department of Astronomy. Paczynskis core argument is that the...
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The Quest for the Golden Lens
Magazine article by Charles Liu; Natural History, Vol. 112, September 2003
Subjects: Astronomers, Astronomy, Optics, Space telescopes
...Castor and Pollux, who accompanied Jason, became Gemini; and Hercules was one of Jasons mates. Few, if any, modern astronomers...would enable astronomers to deduce one of the holy grails of astronomy: the Hubble constant, or the expansion rate of the universe...
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The Sky in June
Magazine article; Natural History, Vol. 107, June 1998
Subjects: Astronomy, Moon, Planets
...On June evenings, the constellation Hercules is high in the eastern sky. Its stars...Arabic for "head of the kneeler") marks Hercules head. Its color is a result of its relatively...likely become one. The constellation Hercules is formed by about a dozen stars. The...
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Hercules' Dream Team
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), May 27, 2011
Hercules Dream Team. Byline: Compiled by Charles Legge QUESTION In La Coruna, Spain, there is a Tower Of Hercules. There is also a football team called Hercules, and Plato dubbed Gibraltar one of the Pillars of Hercules...
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Astronomy Student to Represent RP in Int'l Conference
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, January 2, 2009
Astronomy Student to Represent RP in Intl Conference. A female first year Astronomy student of the Rizal Technological University...the country at the 2009 International Year of Astronomy (IYA) conference to be held this month in Paris...
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Astronomical Events Greet First Days of the Year
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, January 2, 2009
Subjects: Eclipses, Eclipses (Astronomy), Meteorites
...Events Greet First Days of the Year. Astronomy enthusiasts may look forward to major...century star atlases between Draco, Hercules, and Bootes. It was removed, along...Following the Quadrantid meteor shower, astronomy enthusiasts may mark Wednesday, Jan...
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Jonathan Cainer
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 23, 2009
Subjects: Eclipses, Eclipses (Astronomy)
...0906 751 5610. AQUARIUS Jan 21 -- Feb 19 THE story goes that Hercules needed Atlas to do him a favour. He offered to hold up the...run the errand. Atlas almost managed to leave his post, but Hercules tricked him into taking back the burden. I mention this only...
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Northwest Suburbs in 60 Seconds
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), April 30, 2007
...call Mike Kurgan at (847) 484-2411. Astronomy buffs invited: Any Virgos whod like...Galaxy and the M13, the Great Cluster in Hercules. Saturn and the bright stars Arcturus...Spica also should be visible. The Harper Astronomy Club recommends people call the observatory...
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encyclopedia articles on: Hercules in Astronomy  - 4 results

 
 
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Hercules , in Astronomy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
HERCULES , in astronomy hur ky lez , in astronomy, northern constellation located between Lyra and Corona Borealis. It is traditionally depicted as the hero Hercules in a kneeling position. There are no very bright stars in Hercules...
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Draco , in Astronomy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
DRACO , in astronomy Lat.,=the dragon, northern constellation lying SE of Ursa Minor and N of Lyra and Hercules. It is traditionally depicted as a dragon. Draco contains the bright star Eltanin (Gamma Draconis). Thuban (Alpha Draconis...
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Constellation , in Astronomy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CONSTELLATION , in astronomy in common usage, group of stars that appear to form a configuration...corresponding to mythological figures (e.g., Perseus, Andromeda, Hercules, Orion), animals (e.g., Leo the Lion, Cygnus the Swan...
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Renaissance
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and Johannes Kepler attempted to refine earlier thought on astronomy. Among Leonardos discoveries were the revelation that thrown...Desprez composed masses, chansons, and motets, of which his Hercules Dux Ferriare mass and Misere motet are lasting examples...


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