User:Sam Bruskin

On this page I shall collect topics that interest me. There will be others who share these interests.

I anticipate useful edits, informative comments, and references to worthwhile sources, which will expand the scope of my investigations.

I look forward to building up my Mini-wiki. [What's that?]

Just now I am digging the bones of my explorations in The History of Cosmology up to and including Astrophysics, which has become even more exciting with the advent of the JWST.

From the pre-Socratics' astronomy, Ptolemaic advances, Aristotle's monumental accomplishments, the adoption of his models by The Church, the Copernican Crack in its iron grip, and bringing up to Galileo's glimpse of a New Astronomy.

Today, I want to use the expression "Starry Firmament"; but I also search out terms like "Welkin", and "Empyrean."

I had here a couple engravings [sorry not available] : one is a Biblical interpretation with flat rectangular space for earth and firmament, and another later view, of a domed firmament, marking controversy over the substance of the Dome (hard, fluid, etc.) and the explorer, possibly Galileo, poking his head through a solid dome into the Empyrean.