Browsing Lynx Open Ed by Author "Magruder, Kerry"

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    • Maria Cunitz: Kepler's Defender 

      Magruder, Kerry (2015)
      Maria Cunitz was one of the first astronomers to adopt Johann Kepler's astronomy. She made Kepler's achievement easy to grasp, and demonstrated that Kepler's laws were more accurate than anything that had come before. This ...

    • Maria Merian: World-Traveling Entomologist 

      Magruder, Kerry (2015)
      Maria Merian (1647-1717), skilled in both art and natural history, studied the relationships between flowers and insects. She conducted research in gardens and museums, produced detailed sketches and beautiful paintings, ...

    • Orion the Hunter 

      Magruder, Kerry (2015)
      Three stars in a row make up Orion s belt, within a rectangle of four bright stars representing his shoulders and feet. Since Orion's belt of three bright stars lies nearly upon the celestial equator, Orion is visible from ...

    • Pythagorean Solids: Five Regular Solids 

      Magruder, Kerry (2015)
      Throughout history the regular solids were a point of intrigue by astronomers, mathematicians, artists, and philosophers. The Pythagoreans proved that there are only five regular solids: the cube, triangle, octahedron, ...

    • Relativity of Motion: The Moving Ship Thought Experiment 

      Magruder, Kerry (2015)
      Galileo's "Dialogue on the Two Chief Systems of the World," includes a discussion about dropping balls from the mast of both a moving ship and a ship at rest in order to test the theory of inertia. If sailors actually had ...

    • Urania's Mirror: Constellation Cards 

      Magruder, Kerry (2015)
      Urania's Mirror was a set of constellation cards designed to aid in the teaching and learning of constellations. This set includes 32 cards, each focused upon one or a few constellations. Holes punched in the positions of ...

    • Wondertooneel: Women and Museums 

      Magruder, Kerry (2015)
      Levinus Vincent, a wealthy Dutch merchant with ties to the East Indies, created a spectacular 'Chamber of Wonders' natural history museum in Haarlem. Visiting dignitaries admired his museum, including Peter the Great and ...