Tag: astronomy
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O’rion
Irish tyrant Big iron for try hards My contents a hit parade Your oeuvre not worth its paper Your countenance like hit grenade. Boyne maps Orion All my toil and trying fruitless Like burnt Eden, smile toothless Tore out Ruth’s book, I’m ruthless Routes to my roots with each toot Die in my boots.
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Model Not Territory
Ptolemy’s model followed geocentric principles Earth as sun centre around which spheres rotate uniformly as ships in typhoons, along circles split like zodiac glyphs At the epicentre the sun housing the earth Divinely plotted prescribed orbits to fit solar alignments are called deferents These are fenced and intersected by smaller circular orbits called epicycles By…