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A Brief History of Beiji (Northern Culmen) 北际(北Culmen)简史

Culture and Cosmos Pub Date : 2004-10-01 DOI: 10.46472/cc.01208.0245

D. Pankenier

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Robinson Jeffers: Poetic Responses to a Cosmological Revolution 罗宾逊·杰弗斯:对宇宙学革命的诗意回应

Culture and Cosmos Pub Date : 2004-10-01 DOI: 10.46472/cc.01208.0243

R. Olowin

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An interpretation of the `Sky Disc of Nebra´ as an icon for a bronze age planetarium mechanism with parallels to the moving world soul in Plato's Timaeus 对“内布拉的天空圆盘”的解释是青铜时代天文馆机制的图标，与柏拉图的《蒂迈奥》中移动的世界灵魂相似

Culture and Cosmos Pub Date : 2004-10-01 DOI: 10.46472/cc.01208.0267

B. Steinrücken

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Organising INSAP

Culture and Cosmos Pub Date : 2004-10-01 DOI: 10.46472/cc.01208.0103

V. Shrimplin

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The Aberration of Starlight and/in Postmodernist Fiction 星光的畸变与后现代主义小说

Culture and Cosmos Pub Date : 2004-10-01 DOI: 10.46472/cc.01208.0227

Bernd Klahn

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How Galileo Dedicated the Moons of Jupiter to Cosimo II de Medici 伽利略如何将木星的卫星献给柯西莫二世·德·美第奇

Culture and Cosmos Pub Date : 2004-10-01 DOI: 10.46472/cc.01208.0229

N. Kollerstrom

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Paris Solstice: A visual art project touching on themes of history, society, astronomy, and technology 巴黎至日:一个涉及历史、社会、天文学和技术主题的视觉艺术项目

Culture and Cosmos Pub Date : 2004-10-01 DOI: 10.46472/cc.01208.0215

D. Garwood

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Die Planetentheorie: its uses and meanings for the Saxon mining communities and the culture of the Dresden Court 1553–1719 行星理论:1553-1719年对撒克逊采矿社区和德累斯顿宫廷文化的使用和意义

Culture and Cosmos Pub Date : 2004-10-01 DOI: 10.46472/cc.01208.0255

Sarah Richards

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Poetic Responses to the Size of the Universe: Astronomical Imagery and Cosmological Constraints 对宇宙大小的诗意回应:天文意象与宇宙学约束

Culture and Cosmos Pub Date : 2004-10-01 DOI: 10.46472/cc.01208.0247

R. Poss

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A Journey of Celestial Lights: The Sky as Allegory in Melville’s ‘Moby Dick’ 天光之旅:梅尔维尔《白鲸记》中的天空寓言

Culture and Cosmos Pub Date : 2004-10-01 DOI: 10.46472/cc.01208.0239

Daniel R. Matlaga

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