Andre

• Pulchritude


  Physical beauty (especially of a woman)
• Tractable


  Capable of being easily led, taught, or controlled
• Writhing


  To twist from or as if from pain or struggling
• Hapless


  Having no luck : unfortunate
• Modicum


  A small quantity of a particular thing, especially something considered desirable or valuable
• World Literature


  Writing that circulates widely beyond the borders of its country of origin
• Rabindranath Tagore


  • Also known as "The Bard of Bengal"
• William Shakespeare


  • Also known as "The Bard of Avon"
• Homer


  • Wrote the Iliad and Odyssey
• The Iliad


  A tale of war, describes the feats of individual heroes and the gods on both sides of the conflict
• The Odyssey


  Tells of one hero's adventures as he and his men try to return home after the war has ended. The forces that opposed them include one-eyed monsters and a sorceress who turns men into pigs
• Virgil


  • Wrote the Aeneid, an epic poem in 12 books that tells the story of the foundation of Rome from the ashes of Troy, probably written down in Rome from 30-19 BC during the period of the Emperor Augustus
• Dante Alighieri

  • Wrote the Divine Comedy, a man, generally assumed to be Dante himself, is miraculously enabled to undertake an ultramundane journey, which leads him to visit the souls in Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise
• Giovanni Boccaccio

  • Wrote the Decameron, a collection of 100 tales set during the Black Death, and the story of Federigo Falcon, a nobleman deeply in love with a woman named Monna Giovanna but unable to win her heart due to his poverty
• Victor Hugo

  • Wrote the Hunchback of Notre Dame, a story about the journey of a hunchback who finds real love despite his physical appearance and social discrimination, and Les Miserables, a French novel that criticizes how society treats members of lower social classes
• Leo Tolstoy

  • Wrote Anna Karenina, a narrative centring on the adulterous affair between Anna, wife of Aleksey Karenin, and Count Vronsky, and Where Love is There God is Also, a short story about a cobbler named Martin
• Junot Diaz


  • A Pulitzer prize recipient for his novel "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao"
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez


  • A Colombian novelist and one of the greatest writers of the 20th century
• Astronomy


  Humanity's oldest science and the branch of Science which deals with celestial objects, space, and the physical universe as a whole
• Different motions in the sky

  • Diurnal (rotation)
  • Annual (revolution)
• Diurnal motion


  Day to day motion
• Annual motion


  Yearly motion
• Ancient Greek philosophers

  • Pythagoras (570-495 BC)
  • Plato (427-347 BC)
  • Eudoxus (of Cnidus, 408-355 BC)
  • Aristotle (384-322 BC)
• Pythagoras


  The universe is mathematical; mathematics as the best way to express truth about the universe
• Plato


  Mathematical symmetries to demonstrate perfect shapes (sphere and circle); celestial spheres being crystalline and containing the Moon, the Sun, and the stars

  
• Eudoxus


  Followed previous models of the universe but added auxiliary spheres to provide appropriate tilt to the planets' path

  
• Eudoxus' model


  • 3 Spheres for Sun
  • 3 Spheres for Moon
  • 4 Spheres for each of the Planets
  • 1 Sphere for the Stars

  
• Aristotle


  Two-domain system with terrestrial domain containing four elements that tries to attain perfection by being in their natural location relative to the centre of the Universe: the centre of the Earth
• Two domains of the universe

  • Celestial domain (perfect, made of "aether", circular motion)
  • Terrestrial domain (composed of four elements: earth, water, air and fire)
• Models of the universe

  • Ptolemaic (Earth-centred)
  • Copernican (Sun-centred)
  • Ursine/Tychonic (between Earth and Sun)

  
• Ptolemaic model


  Earth is the centre, all other celestial bodies orbit the Earth

  
• Copernican model


  Sun is the centre, all planets including Earth orbit the Sun, only Moon orbits the Earth

  
• Ursine/Tychonic model


  The Moon and the Sun orbit the Earth, all other planets orbit the Sun

  
• Law of Ellipses: An imaginary line drawn from the centre of the Sun to the centre of the planet

  
• Law of Equal Areas: Where Perihelion is the fastest and Aphelion is the slowest
• Law of Harmonics: The squares of the periods of the planets are proportional to the cubes of their mean distance from the sun. Period and distance of the planet to the sun is always directly proportional

  
• Kinematics


  Study of motion
• Dynamics


  Relates force and motion
• Translation


  Term used in Physics for motion in a straight line
• Vector


  Quantity with both magnitude and direction