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Astronomical phenomena in Dresden codex [PDF]
Serbian Astronomical Journal, 2013 The relationship between Maya and our calendar is expressed by a coefficient known as ‘correlation’ which is a number of days that we have to add to the Mayan Long Count date to get Julian Date used in astronomy.
Böhm V. +4 more
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How many universes are necessary for an ice cream to melt? [PDF]
Serbian Astronomical Journal, 2003 We investigate a quantitative consequence of the Acausal-Anthropic approach to solving the long-standing puzzle of the thermo dynamical arrow of time.
Ćirković Milan M.
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Fermi's Paradox - The Last Challenge For Copernicanism? [PDF]
Serbian Astronomical Journal, 2009 We review Fermi's paradox (or the "Great Silence" problem), not only arguably the oldest and crucial problem for the Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (SETI), but also a conundrum of profound scientific, philosophical and cultural importance. By a
Ćirković, M. M.
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Newly found Mayan records of astronomical phenomena in Dresden Codex [PDF]
Serbian Astronomical Journal, 2023 The rich culture of old Maya gave birth to a very complicated and complex calendar; they also recorded important historical events and many significant astronomical phenomena.
Vondrák J., Böhm V., Böhm B.
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Maya records of planetary conjunctions in Dresden Codex [PDF]
Serbian Astronomical JournalOld Mayas designed a very complicated calendar, and they also recorded important historical events and astronomical phenomena. Dresden Codex (DC), one of the four preserved Mayan hieroglyphic literal legacies, contains many of these, covering ...
Vondrák J., Böhm V., Böhm B.
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A Chi-Squared Analysis of the Measurements of Two Cosmological Parameters over Time
Universe, 2020 The aim of this analysis was to determine whether or not the given error bars truly represented the dispersion of values in a historical compilation of two cosmological parameters: the amplitude of mass fluctuations (σ8) and Hubble’s constant (H0 ...
Timothy Faerber +1 more
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Interrelations Between Astrochemistry and Galactic Dynamics
Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 2021 This paper presents a review of ideas that interconnect astrochemistry and galactic dynamics. Since these two areas are vast and not recent, each one has already been covered separately by several reviews.
Edgar Mendoza +8 more
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Philosophia Scientiæ, 2022 The usual account of Auguste Comte, thinker of the “positive” science, overshadows his attention to the “spectacle of destruction” (and of obsolescence), to which the metaphysical state of human knowledge and humanity offers the stage. I first illustrate
Jan Maršálek
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The Experimental Philosophy or Francis Bacon’s Elenchus [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2023 Critical rationalism faces difficulty in Karl Popper’s Socratic formulation: “I may be wrong, and you may be right, and by an effort, we may find the truth.” But the Socratic elenchus, using refutations, can only give us negative knowledge of general ...
Jagdish Hattiangadi
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ந. சுப்புரெட்டியாரின் அறிவியல் நோக்கில் தமிழ் இலக்கியம் / A Scientific Perspective of Tamil Literature by Dr. N. Subbu Reddiar [PDF]
International Journal of Tamil Language and Literary Studies, 2022 The Tamil language is a symbol of the entire Tamil society, embodying centuries of literary tradition and various literary forms. Historians have indeed acknowledged that Tamilians have long excelled in civilizations.
முனைவர் ரெ. சுமதி / Dr. R. Sumathi
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