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A Story of Love and Astronomy: my contribution to the VIII Math Carnival

Mathematics lovers are in luck because we have a carnival in which to share our of interest. In this eighth edition in charge of this event is J uan Martínez-Giménez Tébar in his blog: Mathematicians are not serious people. It is my honor to participate in this opportunity with this entry:

We have said Oscar Wilde : The best way to get rid of temptation is to fall into it and yet we erre que erre rebelling; Luis Maria Anson brings the beauty of oriental poems in that love is constant before life.

mentions Anson Li Po , century Chinese poet XVIII, liberal and heavy drinker, just another one of my admired poets, Persian mathematician and astronomer Omar Khayyam (XI century), author of the Rubaiyaat and protagonist of the book Samarkand Amin Maalouf and film: The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam.

Drinking only in light of the moon

If Heaven had no love for wine,
there would be no Wine Star in the sky.
If the Earth had no love for wine,
not have a city called Wine sources.
As Heaven and Earth love wine, wine
I can love without shame to Heaven.
say that the clear wine is a saint, thick wine
follow the path (Tao) of the wise.
I have drunk deeply holy and wise,
then what need to study the minds and the immortals?
With three glasses penetrate the Great Tao,
take everything a pitcher, and the world and I are one. Such things as
I dreamed of wine,
never be counted to the sober.
(Li Po)

As what you ignore reserve tomorrow, try to be happy today. Grab a jug of wine, sit in the light of the moon and drink, as you say that perhaps tomorrow I will look in vain for the star of the night. (Omar Khayyam)

Similarities Eastern poets, passionate lives in coexisting stars and lovers, there is no time. Love and Astronomy. Anson referred to Tsing Kuan, XII century poet, rises to the stars love to sing the seventh night of the seventh moon. Tsiao Hsien Chiao is the love story of cowboy and Weaver, embodied in two stars that are every seventh night of every seventh moon. Then cross the celestial river, the Milky Way, on the bridge of the crows, and speak of love and sadness; the idea of \u200b\u200bconstant love, before life also appears dela in the Ching Dynasty, when you worship-yun chen, divine rhyme, Wa Lan, who loved his wife three million centuries before meeting ...

Poetry and Astronomy, Jayyamse Omar biography fascinates me all areas, as an astronomer to note that in 1070 he moved to Samarkand ( Samarkand, the most beautiful face that the Earth has ever gone into the sun.) where commissioned the construction of an astronomical observatory located in Marv (now Mary, Turkmenistan) was among a group of scientists who reformed the calendar Zaratustrano , the new schedule f ue formally inaugurated on March 15 1079, and is the calendar used by the Persians still . For this new caledario was called Yalalí calculated the length of a year with great accuracy. (An error of 1 day in 3770 years, less than the Gregorian calendar would begin to be used in Europe from October 15, 1582.)

The Persians had retained because Zaratustrano calendar accuracy, although the Islamic culture imposed on all nations conquered their lunar calendar.

Samarkand, city 2700 years old, declared by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 2001, one of the Sultans: Ulugh Beg had a great interest in astronomy and in 1428 built an astronomical observatory called inmneso Gurjani Zij.

cylindrical building had a height of 35 meters and a floor of 50 meters in diameter. Inside was a huge mural sextant Fajri marble 36 meter radio and a visual separation of 180 arc seconds, used for astronomical measurements for highly accurate for the year 1428.

In 1437 determines the length of the sidereal year as 365.2570370 ... ^d ^{d = 365 h} ⁶ ^{m 10 s} 8 (with an error ^s +58). In their actions used a gnomon of almost 50 meters high.

would have to spend 150 years until the calculations of Tycho Brahe Danish would improve the observatory in Samarkand.