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400 Years of Telescopes and Irish Whiskey

January 28, 2008 by Tony  
Filed under Astronomy

Galileotelescope
Photo Credit: Ruth L.

This year marks the 400th anniversary, the Quadricentennial, of the invention of the telescope. The earliest known record of the invention of the telescope belongs to Hans Lipperhey,

“who claims to have a certain device by means of which all things at a very great distance can be seen as if they were nearby, by looking through glasses which he claims to be a new invention.” (Full article)

The above was in a letter dated 25 September, 1608.

Curiously, 400 years ago a license to distill whiskey in Bushmill, Ireland was granted the Bushmill Distillery:

Claiming to be the “Worlds Oldest Whiskey Distillery” based on the undisputed fact that a seven year licence to distil dating from April 20th 1608 is attributed to the distillery. (Webpage Here)

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Bushmill’s Webpage

Is this a coincidence or is there some cosmic significance to this most curious timing? Did one lead to the other? Makes you wonder, doesn’t it?

Well, no matter how you look at it, 1608 was a very good year…

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3 Responses to “400 Years of Telescopes and Irish Whiskey”
  1. Kristen King says:

    Hmm, the world may never know… ;)

    Fun post, thanks!

    Kristen

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  3. Joe Nahhas says:

    Is it Astronomy?Or AS!Tronomy

    Einstein’s Physics+ MIT Harvard Cal-Tech Princeton
    Stanford Perimeter institute + All space-time Physics
    + NASA = 0 Physics

    Visual Effects and the confusions of “Modern” physics

    r ——————Light sensing of moving objects ——- S
    Actual object————— Light —————— Visual object

    r – ——-cosine (wt) + i sine (wt) – S = r [cosine (wt) + i sine (wt)]
    Newton– Kepler’s time visual effects — Time dependent Newton Wave Equation

    Line of Sight: r cosine wt

    r ——————- r cosine (wt) line of sight light aberrations

    A moving object with velocity v will be visualized by

    light sensing through an angle (wt);w = constant and t= time

    Also, sine wt = v/c; cosine wt = √ [1-sine² (wt)] = √ [1-(v/c) ²]

    A visual object moving with velocity v will be seen as S

    S = r [cosine (wt) + i sine (wt)] = r Exp [i wt]; Exp = Exponential

    S = r [√ [1-(v/c) ²] + ỉ (v/c)] = S x + i S y

    S x = Visual along the line of sight = r [√ [1-(v/c) ²]

    This Equation is special relativity length contraction formula and it is just the visual effects caused by light aberrations of a moving object along the line of sight.

    In a right angled velocity triangle A B C: Angle A = wt; angle B = 90°; Angle C = 90° -wt
    AB = hypotenuse = c; BC = opposite = v; CA= adjacent = c √ [1-(v/c) ²]

    And what is the visual effect for angular velocity of Perihelion of Mercury along the line of sight?

    Perihelion of Mercury
    Kepler (demolish) Vs Einstein’s Space-jail of time

    Ending Einstein’s space jail of time in 2009 that led to fraud Symbol E=mc²

    Areal velocity is constant: r² θ’ =h Kepler’s Law

    h = 2π a b/T; b=a√ (1-ε²); a = mean distance value; ε = eccentricity
    r² θ’= h = S² w’

    S = r exp (ỉ wt) ——————————————————————————–>

    h = [r² Exp (2iwt)] w’=r²θ’
    w’ = (θ’) exp [-2(i wt)]

    w’= (h/r²) [cosine 2(wt) - ỉ sine 2(wt)] = (h/r²) [1- 2sine² (wt) - ỉ sin 2(wt)]
    w’ = w’(x) + ỉ w’(y) ; w’(x) = (h/r²) [ 1- 2sine² (wt)]

    Δ w’= w’(x) – (h/r²) = – 2(h/r²) sine² (wt) = – 2(h/r²) (v/c) ² v/c=sine wt
    (h/ r²)(Perihelion/Periastron)= [2πa.a√ (1-ε²)]/Ta² (1-ε) ²= [2π√ (1-ε²)]/T (1-ε) ²
    Δ w’ = [w'(x) – h/r²] = -4π {[√ (1-ε²)]/T (1-ε) ²} (v/c) ² radian per second

    {x [180/π;degrees]x[100years=36526days;century]x[3600;seconds in degree]

    Δ w” = (-720×36526x3600/T) {[√ (1-ε²]/(1-ε)²} (v/c)² seconds of arc per century

    This Kepler’s Equation solves all the problems Einstein and all physicists could not solve
    DI Her Binary starts systems

    The circumference of an ellipse: 2πa (1 – ε²/4 + 3/16(ε²)²- –.) ≈ 2πa (1-ε²/4); R =a (1-ε²/4)
    v=√ [G m M / (m + M) a (1-ε²/4)] ≈ √ [GM/a (1-ε²/4)]; m<<M; Solar system

    Advance of Perihelion of mercury.

    G=6.673×10^-11; M=2×10^30kg; m=.32×10^24kg
    ε = 0.206; T=88days; c = 299792.458 km/sec; a = 58.2km/sec

    Calculations yields:
    v =48.14km/sec; [√ (1- ε²)] (1-ε) ² = 1.552
    Δ w”= (-720×36526x3600/88) x (1.552) (48.14/299792)²=43.0”/century

    Conclusions: The 43″ seconds of arc of advance of perihelion of Planet Mercury (General relativity) is given by Kepler’s equation better than all of Published papers of Einstein. Kepler’s Equation can solve Einstein’s nemesis DI Her Binary stars motion and all the other dozens of stars motions posted for past 40 years on NASA website SAO/NASA as unsolved by any physics.

    Anyone dare to prove me wrong? I just showed that:

    Physicists and astrophysicists still can not read a telescope after 400 years!

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