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Discovery of Hubble's Law: an Example of Type III Error
Ari Belenkiy
Recently much attention has been paid to the discovery of Hubble's law: the linear relation between the rate of recession of the distant galaxies and distance to them. Though we no…
"The Waters I am Entering No One yet Has Crossed": Alexander Friedman and the Origins of Modern Cosmology
Ari Belenkiy
Ninety years ago, in 1922, Alexander Friedman (1888-1925) demonstrated for the first time that the General Relativity equations admit non-static solutions and thus the Universe may…
Stirring Astronomy into Theology: Sir Isaac Newton on the Date of the Passion of Christ
Ari Belenkiy, Eduardo Vila Echague
It is known that Sir Isaac Newton suggested a date for the Passion of Christ in the posthumously published "Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel and the Apocalypse of St. Joh…
Groping Toward Linear Regression Analysis: Newton's Analysis of Hipparchus' Equinox Observations
Ari Belenkiy, Eduardo Vila Echague
In February 1700, Isaac Newton needed a precise tropical year to design a new universal calendar that would supersede the Gregorian one. However, 17th-Century astronomers were unce…