A QUESTION OF GRAVITY: FORCES FROM THE PLANETS
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Throughout history, people searched for additional meaning in their lives by following the stars in the night sky. In addition to the “fixed stars”, the ancient and medieval worlds were aware of five “wandering stars”, the planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. People of the ancient world frequently associated the moving lights in the night sky with signs from gods. Truly, we are physically connected to the cosmic world by gravitational forces and electromagnetic radiation [1]. Also, the positions of the Sun and Moon are related to ocean tides, and the celestial (heavenly) bodies served both as clock and calendar until just a few hundred years ago [2]. As a result of such connections, ancient students of the night sky would seek to learn how the celestial bodies could possibly affect human character and destiny.
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