Essays on Uranus

To everyone’s surprise, the Harvard paleontologist, Stephen Jay Gould went against a theory that has been accepted and studied for over one hundred and fifty years. Charles Darwin had found a conclusion to the theory of evolution after years of research and voyages. Only for…

Mercury was discovered in 1631 Pierre Gassendi when he first observed Mercury moving across the sun. A few years later another astronomer discovered phases, meaning that the planet orbited the sun. Venus was the second planet discovered because of its brightness and has been referenced…

Introduction In 2017 the famous NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft made its final approach to Saturn and crushed on its surface, therefore ending its 13-years long mission, that included a collaboration with some other international space agencies. The mission allowed scientists to gather a big amount of…

The influence of the philosophers, Cicero, in De Natura Deorum (“Concerning the Nature of the Gods”), claims that he was the offspring of the ancient gods Aether and Hemera, Air and Day. According to the Orphic hymns, Uranus was the son of Nyx, the personification…