Johannes Phocylides Holwarda Jan Fokkesz, Jan Fokker, Johann Holwarda, Johannes Fokkes Holwarda, Jan Fokkens Holwarda, Jan Fokkes van Holwerd 1618 January 22, 1651 was a Frisians Frisian astronomer , physician, and philosopher. He was professor of philosophy at the University of Franeker from 1639 to 1651. ref Pieter Willem van der Horst , The Sentences of Pseudo Phocylides Brill, 1978 , 63. ref Born in Holwerd , he is best remembered for his discovery of Mira s Omicron Ceti s variation in brightness. In a systematic study in 1638, he found that Mira disappeared and reappeared in a varying cycle of about 330 days. ref http www.astro.utu.fi zubi people holwarda.htm Holwarda, Johannes Phocylides Bot generated title ref ref http subdomainname.yurisnight.net spider spider Vars mira.html Mira, Omicron Ceti Bot generated title ref He was a supporter of atomism . His Philosophia Naturalis, seu Physica Vetus Nova , published posthumously in 1651, defines matter and form matter is extended and divided into atoms while form is the texture of atoms . According to Phocylides, bodies are formed of atoms and void. Atoms, which he distinguished as simple or compound, are solid corpuscles that receive motion directly from God . ref Antonio Clericuzio, Elements, Principles and Corpuscles A Study of Atomism and Chemistry in the Seventeeth Century Springer, 2001 , p. 187 . ref The lunar Impact crater crater Phocylides crater Phocylides is named after him. ref http the moon.wikispaces.com Phocylides the moon Phocylides Bot generated title ref Notes reflist Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Phocylides Holwarda ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1618 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1651 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Phocylides Holwarda Category 1618 births Category 1651 deaths Category Dutch astronomers Category Frisian scientists Category People from Dongeradeel Category University of Franeker faculty netherlands scientist stub Euro astronomer stub de Johann H ... more details
Year nav topic 1596 science The year 1596 in science and technology included some significant events. Astronomy David Fabricius discovers the first non supernova variable star , Omicron Ceti . Johannes Kepler s Mysterium Cosmographicum is the first published defense of the Nicolaus Copernicus Copernican heliocentrism heliocentric system of planetary motion. Botany Gaspard Bauhin publishes Pinax theatri botanici , an early classified Flora book flora . Medicine William Slingsby discovers that water from the Tewitt Well mineral spring at Harrogate in North Yorkshire , England , possesses similar properties to that from Spa, Belgium . Earth sciences Abraham Ortelius , in the last edition of his Thesaurus geographicus , considers the possibility of continental drift . Exploration June 17 Willem Barents makes the first documented discovery of Spitsbergen in the Svalbard archipelago . ref http books.google.nl books?id Bt88AAAAIAAJ&pg PR12&lpg PR12&dq Spitsbergen 1662 map&source bl&ots OOo6xaHTFE&sig I5gGfNG0 2jvAoiLIyspdIG Fa0&hl nl&ei m7qKTKq6DM7KOLP tMcK&sa X&oi book result&ct result&resnum 3&ved 0CBwQ6AEwAg v onepage&q Spitsbergen 201662 20map&f false No Man s Land ref Technology John Harington writer John Harington describes the Ajax , a precursor to the modern flush toilet , in The Metamorphosis of Ajax . Births March 31 Ren Descartes d. 1650 in science 1650 , mathematician & scientist. Deaths January 27 Francis Drake b. 1540 in science 1540 , English people English explorer at sea . September 15 Leonhard Rauwolf b. either 1535 in science 1535 or 1540 , German people German botanist and physician. September Pieter Dirkszoon Keyser b. 1540? , Frisians Frisian navigator at sea . References reflist Category 1596 in science fr 1596 en science hu 1596 a tudom nyban mk 1596 ... more details
About the Greek letter the genus of the same name Omicron genus video game Omikron The Nomad Soul Wiktionary Greek Alphabet letter omicronOmicron uppercase , lowercase , literally small o , o mikron , micron meaning small in contrast to omega is the 15th letter of the Greek alphabet . In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 70. It is rarely used in mathematics because it is indistinguishable from the Latin alphabet Latin letters O , o and easily confused with the Numerical digit digit 0 number 0 . This letter is derived from the Phoenician letter ayin Image Phoenician ayin.svg 20px . In modern Greek , omicron represents the sound IPAblink . Letters that arose from omicron include Roman O and Cyrillic O Cyrillic O . In Unicode the majuscule capital letter is codepoint U 039F and the Lower case lowercase is U 03BF. The upper case letter of omicron O was originally used in mathematics as a symbol for Big O notation , representing the asymptotic rate of growth of a function. In popular culture Omicron is frequently used to designate the thirteenth star in a constellation ... sow starname.html University of Illinois star naming conventions ref Stars with the omicron designation include Omicron Andromedae , OmicronCeti , and Omicron Persei . The last of these is well known due to its Stars and planetary systems in fiction Omicron Persei use as a setting in science ... br Omikron lizherenn ca micron cs Omikron cy Omicron da Omikron de Omikron et Omikron el es eo Omikrono eu Omikron fa fr Omicron ga Oimiocr n gd Omicron gl Omicr n ko hr Omikron id Omikron is m kron it Omicron he ka ht ku Omicron lez la Omicron lv Omikrons lb Omikron lt Omikron raid hu Omikron mr ms Omikron nah nl Omikron ja no Omikron nn Omikron nds Omikron pl Omikron pt ru se simple Omicron sk Omikron ... war Omicron wuu zh yue zh ... more details
File Faint Object Camera Dornier Museum .jpg thumb Faint Object Camera Dornier Museum Image ACS FOC swap.jpg thumb Astronauts remove the FOC to make room for the Advanced Camera for Surveys ACS Image Pluto and charon.jpg thumbnail An image of Pluto and its moon Charon moon Charon revealed by the Hubble Faint Object Camera The Faint Object Camera FOC was a camera installed on the Hubble Space Telescope from launch in 1990 until 2002. It was replaced by the Advanced Camera for Surveys . The camera was built by Dornier GmbH and was funded by the European Space Agency . The unit actually consists of two complete and independent camera systems designed to provide extremely high resolution, exceeding 0.05 arcsecond s. It is designed to view very faint UV light from 115 to 650 nanometers in wavelength. ref name CP 2244 cite techreport title The Space Telescope Observatory number CP 2244 institution NASA url http hdl.handle.net 2060 19820025420 date 1982 , page 40. A 40 MB PDF file. ref The camera was designed to operate at low, medium, or high resolution. The angular resolution and field of view at each resolution were as follows ref cite web title FOC Faint Object Camera work Hubble publisher European Space Agency date 2006 12 12 url http hubble.esa.int science e www object index.cfm?fobjectid 34007&fbodylongid 1464 accessdate 2007 02 07 ref class wikitable Angular resolution Field of view Low resolution f number f 48 0.043 arcseconds 22 arcseconds Medium resolution f 96 0.022 arcseconds 11 arcseconds High resolution f 288 0.0072 arcseconds 3.6 arcseconds Mira Image RedGiantMiraAndHotCompanion.jpg thumb left 400px Hubble FOC red giant star Mira A right , officially called Omicron Ceti in the constellation Cetus, and its companion on the left. Taken on December 11, 1995 clear References references Hubble Space Telescope Category Hubble Space Telescope Category Space cameras Category Telescope instruments Category Spacecraft instruments observatory stub hu Faint Object Came ... more details
The Robert Olen Butler Prize is a prize for short fiction awarded by Del Sol Press in conjunction with Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Robert Olen Butler , who chooses the winning story. The winning stories are also collected into an annual anthology, The Robert Olen Butler Prize Anthology . As of 2009, three individuals had appeared in the anthology more than once Jacob M. Appel 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 , Erin Soros 2008, 2009 and Mark Wisniewski 2008, 2009 . The award was conceived by Michael Neff , and has been influential in launching the careers of such writers as Lynn Veach Sadler , Charles Yu , Roy Kesey and Cris Mazza . Past winners 2005 Grand Prize E. R. Catalano News from My Father Thomas P. Balazs Omicron Ceti III Ariana Sophia Kartsonis Sundress Roy Kesey Invunche y voladora Gloria DeVidas Kirchheimer Malika Karen Kovacik My Polish Widower Dylan Landis Jazz Kelly Magee Not People, Not This Lynn Veach Sadler Miss Spam Maps of Vegas Marianne Taylor Who is the Hardware Charles Yu My Last Days as Me 2006 Grand Prize Matthew J. Sullivan Unfound Cheryl Alu, Girl Jacob M. Appel , Shell Game with Organs Kerry Dolan, Falling Off the George Washington Bridge Alicia Gifford, Gorgeous World Alison Lee Kinney, Term Phil LaMarche, In the Tradition of My Family Cris Mazza , Our Time Is Up Jeff Parker writer Jeff Parker , The Taste of Penny Bill Pettitt, This Is Not About Me Peter Paul Smith, Kleebe Alia Yunis, A Nearly Blonde Christmas 2007 Grand Prize Valerie Hurley Jasmine, Washing the Hair of Pearsa Jacob M. Appel Jacob Appel Enoch Arden s One Night Stands Stephenie Brown The Wheel Wright Lauren Cobb No Place Greg Hrbek Bereavement LaTanya McQueen Once Jamie Pearlberg A Wedding Tale Matthew Pitt The Mean Scott Winokur Hideous Thing Mark Wisniewski Prisoners of War 2008 Grand Prize Kimberly Willardson Winter Memories of the Summer Bear Jacob M. Appel Animal Control Miriam Gershow Carker Nick Healy Joyless Men Brodie Smith Watch Him Burn Erin Soros The chorus Naomi Will ... more details
Ceti, Wonderful Star, ref name allen1963 OmicronCeti, 68 Ceti, Harvard Revised catalogue HR 681, Bonner ... end Mira IPAc en icon m a r or IPAc en icon m r also known as OmicronCetiCeti ... ph.SR year 2010 ref See also Portal Star Stars and planetary systems in fiction Mira OmicronCeti ... encyclopedia M Mira.html title Mira OmicronCeti work The Encyclopedia of Astrobiology ... vstar vsots 1298.shtml OMICRONCETI Mira http www.aavso.org vstar vsots winter06.shtml Winter 2006 OmicronCeti Mira Stars of Cetus Category Bayer objects Ceti, Omicron Category Binary stars ... Interferometric observations of the Mira star o Ceti with the VLTI VINCI instrument in the near ... Publications location New York isbn 0486210790 ref External links Commons Mira Ceti http www.nasa.gov ... conferences SPIECWo5491199.pdf title Interferometric observations of the Mira star o Ceti with the VLTI ... lb Mira St r ml nl Mira ster ja no Mira nds Mira Steern pl Mira Ceti pt Mira estrela ru simple Mira sk Mira hviezda fi Mira sv Mira tr Mira Ceti uk vi Mira sao war Mira zh ... more details
in luminosity before fading again. Mira itself, also known as OmicronCeti Cet , varies in brightness ... magnitudes. Known types of pulsating white dwarf or pre white dwarf include the DAV , or ZZ Ceti ... Wolf Rayet and the lightest UV Ceti stars. Wolf Rayet variables Main Wolf Rayet star Wolf Rayet ... lines. Flare stars Main Flare star Flare star s, also known as the UV Ceti stars, are very faint ... more details
Herschel , who described it as a very fine deep garnet colour, such as the periodical star Mira &omicronCeti , ref name herschel1783 and it is thus commonly known as Herschel s Garnet Star . ref name ... more details
of Omicron IV. ref name Assignment Earth TOS Assignment Earth ref OmicronCeti III Third planet orbiting OmicronCeti, better known as Mira . A Federation planet with a simple lived ... planet in the same star system is called OmicronCeti V, Mira V, or Dytallix B. Omicron Delta Planet ... Generation Identity Crisis ref Malcor III Third planet in the Mu Ceti system. Homeworld of the Malcorians ... DS9 Defiant Star Trek Deep Space Nine Defiant ref Omicron IV Planet whose ancient population was wiped ... deadly until the problem was corrected by the planet s caretaker. Omicron Pascal ref name TNG 11001001 TNG 11001001 ref Omicron Theta A system, one planet of which had a small scientific colony where ... was given the memories of the colonists of Omicron Theta. ref name Inheritance Ophiuchus III A Federation ... more details
. ref name Canamar Ent Canamar ref Dytallix B The fifth planet in the OmicronCeti star system ... ref Note In Bayer system nomenclature, OmicronCeti is the technical catalog name for Mira . E Read ... Trek Deep Space Nine Family Business ref Alpha CetiCeti Alpha V A then barely habitable planet ... from him and murder him. ref name Space Seed TOS Space Seed ref Six months later, Ceti Alpha VI exploded and caused destruction of Ceti Alpha V s ecosystem, shifting its orbit and rendering it a barren ... wrong name of the List of Star Trek animals Ceti eel Ceti eel . The story of Khan s survival is chronicled ..., the USS Reliant went to Ceti Alpha V, mistaking it for Ceti Alpha VI, which had been chosen for testing ... whether Ceti Alpha is the same as Alpha Ceti , a real star system 220 light years from Earth ... of The Wrath of Khan, Alpha Ceti V is indeed the form used. The star is also presumably called Menkar, a name that then should be applied to the planet. Ceti Alpha VI A sister planet to Ceti Alpha V, probably the outermost planet in the system. The planet exploded sometime around 2267 and destroyed Ceti Alpha V s ecosystem. The cataclysmic event apparently went unnoticed by the Federation who chose the planet as a test site for the Genesis Device in 2285. The USS Reliant goes to Ceti ... more details
Trelane . In This Side of Paradise, DeSalle discovers that the colonists on OmicronCeti III are the only ... Trek planets M Q O Omicron Theta and other planets. Conspired with List of minor recurring characters ... more details
to deadly radiation, the Federation colony on OmicronCeti III appears to be thriving. A landing ... in the Omicron Delta system. The landing parties begin to see strange sights, such as a White Rabbit ... more details
Dependent Limb Darkening Evidenced on Alpha Orionis and OmicronCeti journal Astrophysical Journal .... D. S. McMahon, J. et al. title Precision Measurements of the Diameters of Orionis and Ceti at 11 ..., P. G. title Precision Measurements of the Diameters of Orionis and Ceti at 11 Microns journal ... more details