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Air and Friction in the Celestial Region: Some Medieval Solutions to the Difficulties of the Aristotelian Theory Con-cerning the Production of Celestial Heat

Panzica, Aurora

In: Early Medieval and Modern Science, 2019, vol. 24, no. 4, p. 367-390

This paper explores the medieval debates raised by problems with the Aristotelian theory of the pro-duction and transmission of solar heat presented in De Caelo II, 7 and Meteorologica I, 3. In these passages, Aristotle states that celestial heat is generated by the friction set up in the air by the motion of celestial bodies. This statement is difficult to reconcile with the Aristotelian...

Information Gains in Cosmological Parameter Estimation

Seehars, Sebastian ; Amara, Adam ; Refregier, Alexandre ; Paranjape, Aseem ; Akeret, Joël

In: Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 2014, vol. 10, no. S306, p. 206-209

Figures of merit for testing standard models: application to dark energy experiments in cosmology

Amara, A. ; Kitching, T. D.

In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2011, vol. 413, no. 3, p. 1505-1514