Articles It was the happy invention of this constellation by conon of samos (the royalastrologer) that consoled the royal pair after the theft of the tresses from 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. on Fixed Stars gives this mythic description. This is
Archimedes It is interpreted that he always maintained close relationship with a few scholarsin Alexandria, especially conon of samos and Eratosthenes, to whom, http://www.udayton.edu/~hume/Archimedes/archimedes.htm
Extractions: (278 B.C.E. - 212 B.C.E.) "The importance of the role played by Archimedes in the history of science can scarcely be exaggerated. He was emulated and admired in his own day and at successive periods in later times" Clagett, 1 During the time period before Archimedes, Aristotle had already effectively drawn a line between philosophy and mathematics. After his date philosophy is carried on without mathematical inspiration. There is an outbreak, known as the Golden Age of Greek mathematics, that just happens to occur in Alexandria during the period 300 to 200 B.C.E.. This period lasted only a short time however because philosophic faith in mathematics gradually disappeared. Philosophers were more inclined to use their intellect to come up with explanations based on simply theoretical assumptions and by faith ( Ginsburg, 57 ). Since philosophy had been around long before mathematics was thought up, it remained the more publicly acceptable way to answer questions. By not linking the two, "they missed a grand opportunity to blow open the secrets of the universe to science, and they bequeathed to posterity, a heavy obstacle to the progress of science as a whole" ( Ginsburg, 58
Small Wonders: Coma Berenices the royal astronomer conon of samos pulled their collective bacon out of thefire by claiming the gods had accepted the gift and displayed in the night http://www.cloudynights.com/item.php?item_id=1059
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 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.
The Equiangular Spiral Spira Mirabilis Building upon the work of conon of samos, Archimedes of Syracuse wrote a definitiveearly 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.
Samos - Factbites Encyclopedia4U conon of samos - Encyclopedia Article conon of samos (circa280 BC - circa 220 BC) was a Greek mathematician and astronomer. http://www.factbites.com/topics/Samos
Extractions: Where results make sense About us Why use us? Press Contact us Greekislands.com : Samos Island It is covered with pure white sand beaches, picturesque villages, fishing harbours and it is famous for the production and the quality of its wine The essentional beauty of the nature, the historical sites that are spread all over the island and the charming mountainous landscape of Samos create a unique atmosphere which enchants the visitors and carry them in another era. Samos which constituted the bridge between Greece and East, managed for many years, because of its power, to remain independent, while at the same time flourishing, despite the battles that were waged to conquer it. www.greekislands.com /samos/home.htm (636 words) SAMOS - HOTEL KERVELI VILLAGE is situated at the easternmost end of Samos , at delightful Kerveli, said to be the first place the sun strikes in Greece each morning. The hotel is built in a traditional island style, surrounded by every imaginable shade of blue and green in nature. If you see the sunrise or a full moon at Kerveli, it is a sight, which you will never forget.
BERENICE - LoveToKnow Article On BERENICE The hair having by some unknown means disappeared, conon of samos, the mathematicianand astronomer, explained the phenomenon in courtly phrase, http://50.1911encyclopedia.org/B/BE/BERENICE.htm
Extractions: BERENICE , or BERNICE, the Macedonian forms of the Greek Pherenice, the name of (A) five Egyptian and (B) two Jewish princesses. (A) i. BERENICE, daughter of Lagus, wife of an obscure Macedonian soldier and subsequently of Ptolemy Soter, with whose bride Eurydice she came to Egypt as a lady-in-waiting. Her son, Ptolemy Philadelphus, was recognized as heir over the m. a$ heads of Eurydice's children. So great was her ability and her influence that Pyrrhus of Epirus gave the name Berenicis to a new city. Her son Philadelphus decreed divine honors to her on her death. (See Theocritus, Idylls xv. and xvii.) 2. BERENICE, daughter of Ptolemy Philadelphus, wife of Antiochus Theos of Syria, who, according to agreement with Ptolemy (249), had divorced his wife Laodice and transferred the succession to Berenice's children. On Ptolemy's death, Antiochus repudiated Berenice and took back Laodice, who, however, at once poisoned him and murdered Berenice and her son. The prophecy in Daniel xi. 6 seq. refers to these events. 3. BERENICE, the daughter of Magas, king of Cyrene, and the wife of Ptolemy III. Euergetes. 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, the mathematician and astronomer, 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, applied to a constellation, commemorates this incident. Callimachus celebrated the transformation in a poem, of which only a few lines remain, but there is a fine translation of it by Catullus. Soon after her husband's death (221 B.C.) she was murdered at the instigation of her son Ptolemy IV., with whom she was probably associated in the government.
Extractions: Diane Ackerman W hen lovers describe their sweethearts, they usually mention the color and length of their hair. One may love the whole person, body, and spirit, but hair becomes the fetish of that love. Yielding and soft, sumptuous and colorful, decorative, and dangling, it invites a lover's touch. It's fun to fondle, play with, and disarrange. Messing it up is the symbolic equivalent of undressing the other's body. A woman quickly learns that cutting her hair without warning her lover first is a bad mistake. Even a becoming change of hairstyle can be shocking and disturbing. A boyfriend, on the verge of breaking up with me, once exclaimed with a wince, "Your hair! "What's wrong with it?" I asked, suddenly vulnerable as a trembling fawn. 'Well, there's just so much of it ..." he said. I knew then that everything was over between us. Hair is the caressable plumage of love, a feature individual as the shape of one's chin or the size of one's fingers. If he had said: "I no longer like your mouth," it wouldn't have been more wounding. I once tucked a perfect curl of my hair, tied with a lavender ribbon, between the pages of a poetry book I was returning to a friend. The curl marked my favorite love poem, and I felt as if I were charging the book with my life force. I knew I was giving him a powerful talisman. Hair is sacred to lovers, but also to society. Hell, we can deal with that
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. The queen wigged out While virtually all of the constellations are named for mythological people, beasts and inanimate objects, Coma Berenices is actually associated with a real person. Berenice II was an Egyptian Queen, the wife of Ptolemy Euergenes (also known as Ptolemy III), the king of Egypt, who reigned around 250 BC. able > NightSky Friday Visit SPACE.com each Friday to explore a new backyard astronomy feature.
Free Essays - Archimedes He considered conon of samos, one of the greatest achieving mathematicians atAlexandria, both for his abilities as a mathematician and he http://www.freeessays.tv/d981.htm
Extractions: The List of ancient Greeks reference article from the English Wikipedia on 24-Jul-2004 (provided by Fixed Reference : snapshots of Wikipedia from wikipedia.org) This an alphabetical list of ancient Greeks . These include ethnic Greeks and Greek language speakers from Greece and the Mediterranean world up to about 200 AD. REDIRECT Related articles Abaris - priest of Apollo (or Abaris the Hyperborean Acestorides - tyrant of Syracuse Achaeus - general Achaeus of Eretria - poet Achermus - sculptor Achilles Tatius - writer Acron - writer Acrotatus - King of Sparta Acusilaus - scholar Adeimantus - Corinthian general Adrianus - sophist Aedesius - philosopher Aeimnestus - Spartan soldier Aelianus Tacticus - military writer Aelius Aristides - orator and writer Aeneas Tacticus - writer Aenesidemus - Sceptic philosopher Aeropus I of Macedon - king Aeropus II of Macedon - king Aeschines Socraticus - Socratic philosopher Aeschines - Athenian orator Aeschylus - playwright Aesop - author of fables Aetion - painter Aetius - philosopher Agarista - two; wife of Megacles, mother of Pericles
Chapter Bent to Bertha Of B By Brewer's Phrase & Fable but it was stolen the first night, and conon of samos told the king that thewinds had wafted it to heaven, where it still forms the seven stars near http://www.bibliomania.com/2/3/255/1167/19737/1.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. Berchta the white lady ]. This fairy, in Southern Germany, answers to Hulda ( the gracious lady ) of Northern Germany; but after the introduction of Christianity, when pagan deities were represented as demons, Berchta lost her former character, and became a bogie to frighten children. Bereans Berecynthian Hero Midas, the Phrygian king; so called from Mount Berecyntus, in Phrygia
History Of Alexandria: The Ptolemaic Legacy Parabola, and Hyperbola) were carried out by conon of samos and Appolonius ofPerga. Aristarchus of Samos, Eratosthenes coworker in Alexandria, http://ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/Alexandria/History/legacy.html
Extractions: The Ptolemaic Legacy When Ptolemy Soter assumed power, he asked Demitrius Phalerus , a follower of Aristotle , to found a library system at Alexandria that would rival that of Athens. The Alexandrian Mouseion , however, far superseded its Greek prototype to become an intellectual and scientific institution; a university system rather than a bibliotheca. It was here, in the third century BC, that Archimedes invented the pump still in use today and known as Archimedes' screw , and, in the second century BC, that Hypsicles first divided the circle of the zodiac into 360 degrees. Ancient historians claim that the library's 500,000 book collection was so comprehensive that no manuscript was available in any library worldwide that was not available in Alexandria. Have you ever heard of Euclidean Geometry? Did you know that Euclid lived, developed his theories, and wrote Elements at the Alexandria Mouseion during the reign of Ptolemy II Philadelphus? In his Elements , Euclid provided a comprehensive analysis of geometry, proportions, and theory of numbers. His other notable contribution
Star Tales – Coma Berenices What really happened to them is not recorded, but conon of samos, a mathematicianand astronomer who worked at Alexandria, pointed out the group of stars http://www.ianridpath.com/startales/comaberenices.htm
Extractions: Berenice was a real person who, in the third century BC, married her brother, Ptolemy III Euergetes, as was the tradition of the Egyptian royal family. Berenice was reputedly a great horsewoman who had already distinguished herself in battle. Hyginus, who deals with the star group under Leo in his Poetic Astronomy
Extractions: PART VIb. SPIRA SOLARIS AND THE MIDDLE AGES A. NICOLE ORESME (1323-1382 CE) It seems appropriate to begin this next section with a quotation from Ovid provided by Nicole Oresme in his major work, Le livre du ciel et du monde "The three-fold number is present in all things whatsoever; nor did we ourselves discover this number, but rather nature teaches it to us" Written between 1370 and 1375 CE - some two and a half centuries before Galileo's censure for asserting that Earth was in motion - Le livre du ciel et du monde (hereafter referred to as Du Ciel ) includes a detailed discussion of the issue, the opinion of Heraclides Ponticus: "that the earth moves circularly and that the heavens remain at rest," and Oresme's cautious assessment: "subject, of course, to correction, it seems to me that it is possible to embrace the argument and consider with favour the conclusions set forth in the above opinion that the heavens has a diurnal or daily rotation." Moreover, anticipating Copernicus, Oresme finally concluded: "after considering all that has been said, one could then believe that the earth moves and not the heavens, for the opposite is not clearly evident." This remains one of the better known passages in Du ciel;
Stargazing In Big Sky Country The court astronomer conon of samos saved the day by proclaiming that Aphroditehad accepted the hair as a gift and had placed the lovely tresses in the http://www.glacieradventure.com/StarGaze/May_04.htm
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Lunar Republic : Craters Sir William; British rocket engineer, inventor (17721828). Conon. 21.6N. 2.0E.21. conon of samos; Greek astronomer (c. 260 BC). http://www.lunarrepublic.com/gazetteer/crater_c.shtml
Extractions: Craters (C) Craters A B C D ... Return To Gazetteer Index Latin Name Lat Long Diam Origin C. Herschel Caroline; British astronomer (1750-1848). C. Mayer Christian; German astronomer, mathematician, physicist (1719-1783). Cabannes Jean; French physicist (1885-1959). Cabeus Cabeo, Niccolo; Italian astronomer (1586-1650). Cailleux 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; Portuguese author (1524-1530). Campanus Campano, Giovanni; Italian astronomer (c. 1200-?). Campbell Leon; American astronomer (1881-1951); William W.; American astronomer (1862-1938). Cannizzaro Stanislao; Italian chemist (1826-1910). Cannon Annie J.; American astronomer (1863-1941). Cantor Georg; German mathematician (1845-1918); Moritz; German mathematician (1829-1920). Capella Martianus; Roman astronomer (c. A.D. 400-?).
The Archimedeans - Our Founder He spent some of his life in Alexandria, and was friendly with conon of samosand Eratosthenes; then returned to Syracuse for a life devoted to mathematical http://www.srcf.ucam.org/archim/eureka/27/founder.html
Extractions: Coming Soon! Contact Us You are in: Home Eureka Our Founder B Y H. T. C ROFT A RCHIMEDES of Syracuse was the son of Pheidias the astronomer, and on intimate terms with, if not related to, King Hieron and his son Gelon. He spent some of his life in Alexandria, and was friendly with Conon of Samos and Eratosthenes; then returned to Syracuse for a life devoted to mathematical research. He perished in 212 B C . (at age 75, according to Tzetzes) in the sack of Syracuse.
