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By Yurij Baryshev
A presentation of effects at the greatest fractal constructions within the universe. It seeks to steer the reader, in an easy approach, to the frontiers of astronomy, explaining how fractals seem in cosmic physics, from our sun method to the megafractals in deep house. It additionally deals a private view of the historical past of the assumption of self-similarity and of cosmological rules, from Plato's perfect structure of the heavens to Mandelbrot's fractals within the smooth actual cosmos. furthermore, it discusses the nice fractal debate in astronomy (after Luciano Pietronero's first fractal research of the galaxy universe), which illustrates how new options and deeper observations display unforeseen points of nature.
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Bruno breaks the stellar sphere 25 Fig. 2 Giordano Bruno made huge mental steps towards a new picture of the cosmos. He presented in a clear manner the cosmological principles of No Center and Universality of Earthly Laws. 4 Bruno breaks the stellar sphere When Copernicus stopped the revolving sphere of the stars, he did not question the sphere itself and left the stars fixed on it. During the following one hundred years people began to realize that such a crystal globe without its original function of making the stars go round is of no use any more.
The immediate reason for the trial was the Dialogue Concerning *A book by Foscarini, a Carmelite Father, was totally forbidden - he had tried to show that the moving Earth is in accordance with the Bible.
The notion of a free body, absent in old physics, was adopted later by Newton as one cornerstone for his mechanics. t Galileo had heard that in the Netherlands a lens grinder had built a device which made distant objects look nearby. He soon succeeded, in 1609, in building such an instrument himself. Two telescopes made by Galileo are preserved in Istituto e Museo di storia della scienza, in Florence. They have main lenses with diameters of 16 and 26 mm. 6 The gate into cosmic order The blurred new view through the magnifying tube The geocentric view was, naturally, deeply rooted in society.