https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buridan%27s_ass > ...a man, being just as hungry as thirsty, and placed in between food and drink, must necessarily remain where he is and starve to death. > — Aristotle, On the Heavens 295b, c. 350 BC -------- The paradox of choice is: the more choices we have, the LESS IMPORTANT that choice becomes. Instead of sitting still and starving, it is more important to "make a choice" rather…
…the fixed stars. Yet no such thing is observed. The same stars always rise and set in the same parts of the earth. * http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/heavens.2.ii.html * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Heavens Bradley noticed stellar aberration in ~1728: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bradley Giuseppi Calandrelli finally directly measures parallax in α-Lyrae in 1806.
…the fixed stars. Yet no such thing is observed. The same stars always rise and set in the same parts of the earth. * http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/heavens.2.ii.html * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Heavens
…the fixed stars. Yet no such thing is observed. The same stars always rise and set in the same parts of the earth. * http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/heavens.2.ii.html * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Heavens
……Lira》，报告了织女一（α-Lyrae）的视差。因此，视差这一证明地球运动的关键证据，是在伽利略之后 250 多年才出现的。恒星视差至少从亚里士多德时代就被考量过了，他在《论天》（On the Heavens，II.14）中就提到过，既然观测不到视差，那么得出地球没有运动的结论也是合情合理的（人类花了数千年才研制出足以实际测出视差的仪器）。伽利略的主要问题……
…Lira," reporting parallax in α-Lyrae. So parallax, the chief evidence for the Earth's motion came 250+ years after Galileo. Stellar parallax was considered since at least Aristotle, as he mentions in his On the Heavens (II.14), and since it is not observed then it is reasonable to conclude that there is no motion (it took several thousand years to develop instruments to actually measure it). Galileo's chief problems…
…the fixed stars. Yet no such thing is observed. The same stars always rise and set in the same parts of the earth. * http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/heavens.2.ii.html * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Heavens See also: > In the mathēmatikoi tradition of Pythagoreanism the Earth was removed from the center of the universe. The mathēmatikoi believed that the Earth, along with other celestial bodies, orbited…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buridan%27s_ass > ……一个人饥渴交加，被置于食物与水正中间时，必然会呆在原地活活饿死。 > —— 亚里士多德，《论天》（On the Heavens）295b，约公元前 350 年 -------- 选择悖论在于：我们的选择越多，选择本身就变得“越不重要”。与其坐以待毙挨饿，更重要的是“做出选择”，而不是……
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buridan%27s_ass > ...a man, being just as hungry as thirsty, and placed in between food and drink, must necessarily remain where he is and starve to death. > — Aristotle, On the Heavens 295b, c. 350 BC -------- The paradox of choice is: the more choices we have, the LESS IMPORTANT that choice becomes. Instead of sitting still and starving, it is more important to "make a choice" rather…
……恒星。然而并未观测到这种现象。同一批恒星总是在地球的同一方位升起和落下。* http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/heavens.2.ii.html * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Heavens 布拉德利（Bradley）在约 1728 年注意到了恒星光行差（stellar aberration）：* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bradley 朱塞佩·卡兰德雷利（Giuseppi Calandrelli）最终在 1806 年直接测出了织女一（α-Lyrae）的视差。
…the fixed stars. Yet no such thing is observed. The same stars always rise and set in the same parts of the earth. * http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/heavens.2.ii.html * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Heavens Bradley noticed stellar aberration in ~1728: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bradley Giuseppi Calandrelli finally directly measures parallax in α-Lyrae in 1806.
……恒星。然而并未观测到这种现象。同一批恒星总是在地球的同一方位升起和落下。* http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/heavens.2.ii.html * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Heavens
…the fixed stars. Yet no such thing is observed. The same stars always rise and set in the same parts of the earth. * http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/heavens.2.ii.html * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Heavens
……恒星。然而并未观测到这种现象。同一批恒星总是在地球的同一方位升起和落下。* http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/heavens.2.ii.html * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Heavens
…the fixed stars. Yet no such thing is observed. The same stars always rise and set in the same parts of the earth. * http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/heavens.2.ii.html * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Heavens
……Lira》，报告了织女一（α-Lyrae）的视差。因此，视差这一证明地球运动的关键证据，是在伽利略之后 250 多年才出现的。恒星视差至少从亚里士多德时代就被考量过了，他在《论天》（On the Heavens，II.14）中就提到过，既然观测不到视差，那么得出地球没有运动的结论也是合情合理的（人类花了数千年才研制出足以实际测出视差的仪器）。伽利略的主要问题……
…Lira," reporting parallax in α-Lyrae. So parallax, the chief evidence for the Earth's motion came 250+ years after Galileo. Stellar parallax was considered since at least Aristotle, as he mentions in his On the Heavens (II.14), and since it is not observed then it is reasonable to conclude that there is no motion (it took several thousand years to develop instruments to actually measure it). Galileo's chief problems…
……恒星。然而并未观测到这种现象。同一批恒星总是在地球的同一方位升起和落下。* http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/heavens.2.ii.html * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Heavens 另见：> 在毕达哥拉斯学派的数学家（mathēmatikoi）传统中，地球不再位于宇宙中心。数学家们认为地球与其他天体一起围绕……公转
…the fixed stars. Yet no such thing is observed. The same stars always rise and set in the same parts of the earth. * http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/heavens.2.ii.html * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Heavens See also: > In the mathēmatikoi tradition of Pythagoreanism the Earth was removed from the center of the universe. The mathēmatikoi believed that the Earth, along with other celestial bodies, orbited…