| 单词 | galilean satellite |
| 释义 | > as lemmasGalilean satellite a. Distinctive epithet of the form of telescope invented by Galileo. Discovered by Galileo, as Galilean satellite, any of the largest four moons of the planet Jupiter; also, pertaining to or arising out of the work of Galileo. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > cosmology > science of observation > theory > [adjective] > specific Ptolemean1623 Ptolemaical1653 Ptolemaic1654 Copernican1667 Tychonic1670 Newtonian1676 Tychonian1710 Galilean1728 vortician1734 pre-Copernican1851 Ptolemaian1864 pre-Galilean1880 post-Einsteinian1938 Velikovskian1974 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > instrument for distant vision > [adjective] > telescope > other telescopes Galilean1728 dialytic1839 coudé1888 autocollimating1898 Keplerian1909 double-barrelled1955 Dobsonian1980 the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > satellite of Jupiter > [noun] > specific Ganymede1694 Galilean satellite1911 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Telescope The Galilean or Dutch Telescope. 1757 W. Emerson Doctr. Fluxions (ed. 2) p. viii Let a heavy Body descend through a perpendicular Height of 161/ 12 Feet in one Second of Time, according to the Gallilean Hypothesis of Gravity. 1769 B. Franklin Let. 11 Mar. in Wks. (1887) IV. 234 I have got from Mr. Ellicot the glasses, &c., of the long Galilean telescope. 1878 S. Newcomb Pop. Astron. ii. i. 108 The Galilean telescope was..of the simplest construction. 1903 J. J. Fahie Galileo v. 94 From about 1637, Francesco Fontana of Naples also began to turn out good glasses [sc. lenses] of the Galilean pattern. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XV. 564/1 In apparent brightness each of the four Galilean satellites may be roughly classed as of the sixth magnitude. 1944 Chambers's Techn. Dict. Suppl. 961/1 Galilean binoculars, binoculars in which the objectives are of the usual doublet telescope objective type and the eyepieces are negative lenses. 1954 A. R. Hall Sci. Revol. vi. 168 By its attention to actual phenomena Galilean science was made real and experiential. 1970 Nature 25 Apr. 316/1 It should be possible by 1974 to obtain radar echoes from the Galilean satellites of Jupiter. < as lemmas |
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