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DEFINITIONS

all bolded words are defined below

platonic solids: any regular solid (a tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, or icosahedron).

imperial mathematician: a mathematician who is considered the best of his time, known to use his/her critical and intellectual abilities

ellipses: in terms of science, an oval pathway that a planet takes when orbiting around the sun.

heliocentric: a theory developed that states the sun is the center of the universe.

logarithms: the exponent that tells how much a base number is being raised by.

supernova: a star that increases greatly in brightness because of an explosion that ejects the star's mass.

The Inverse Square Law on Light Intensity: a physical law stating that a specific quantity or intensity is inversely proportional to the square of its distance from the source of the physical quantity.

Law of Gravitation: particles attract other particles in the universe with a force, gravity, which is directly proportional to its mass.

 

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