Is there an astronomy term known as gardening? What is it?
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Gardening is the term for the way regolith (dirt-dust) on the moon and other dead, airless worlds forms.  A constant barrage of micrometeorites (ones that would burn up in the earth's atmopshere) break-up and churn up the top layers of lunar (or mercury's or an asteroid's) rock so that it is reduced to a fine, talcum-like powder (only very, very abrasive).  This process is called "gardening," and is one type of space weathering of rock.
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Well, modern science is actually studding the planets; you will find part of modern science called '' Astronomy '' studding all things beyond earth's atmosphere including planets, and the following is the definition for Astronomy:\n''Astronomy is the science of celestial objects and phenomena that originate outside the Earth's atmosphere, such as stars, planets, comets, auroras, galaxies, and the cosmic background radiation. It is concerned with the formation and development of the universe, the evolution and physical and chemical properties of celestial objects and the calculation of their motions. Astronomical observations are not only relevant for astronomy as such, but provide essential information for the verification of fundamental theories in physics, such as general relativity theory. Complementary to observational astronomy, theoretical astrophysics seeks to explain astronomical phenomena''\nHowever, if you mean by your question how far modern science is helping the studies of the planets; you will find that NASA and other international space agencies, universities and even individuals are studding hard about other planets.
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Copernicus was a Polish astronomer and mathematician who was a proponent of the view of an Earth in daily motion about its axis and in yearly motion around a stationary sun. This theory profoundly altered later workers' view of the universe, but was rejected by the Catholic church.
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A Garden is a metaphor for life. In both there is birth, new growth, renewal full bloom, fading and, in many cases-sometimes mid-season and sometimes at the end-dying. There are challenges, diseases, need for more knowledge, and constant clean-up. There is also joy, beauty, rewards and fulfillment not to mention the good physical work of turning dirt with a shovel combined with the bending and squatting gardening requires. Indeed it is good physical, mental, social, emotional and spiritual exercise.
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With a modest 6 or 8 inch telescope there are thousands of deep sky objects you can see, especially if you have or can get to dark skies. Also in the thousands are double stars, some of which move fast enough to change noticeably from one year to the next. The moon is different every night, as the angle of illumination changes. Jupiter rotates in 10 hours, has four moons that transit, eclipse, and generally move around, plus the belts and spots change gradually over time. The sun changes constantly, some events developing in a matter of minutes. If want to do something scientific you can chart the variations of variable stars. There are also asteroids moving around, and a constant stream of comets to observe or even discover.\n\nSo, if you become bored with astronomy, it won't be for lack of things to look at.
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I think you want Claudius Ptolemy, the Greek astronomer who lived in Alexandria Egypt in the second century.  His books Almagest and Tetrabiblios  were the authoritative works in astronomy  and astrology respectively, for centuries.\n\nHis astronomy placed Earth at the center of the universe, and used a complicated system of circles within circles to explain the motions of the planets. Nevertheless, it wasn't until Kepler (in the early 1600's) figured out that planets orbited the sun in elliptical orbits that anyone had a significantly more accurate way to calculate planetary positions.
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The closest thing to a "geomathematician" would be a "geomaticist".  Someone in this field often works closely with Remote Sensing data...measurements made from satellite data, aerial photography measurments of the Earth, as well as ground survey measurements.\n\nAn astrostatistician, often called a "Cosmologist", is similar but deals mostly with cosmological data (stars, planets, etc), collected by satellites and instruments on the ground.
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This doesn't really belong in Earth Sciences.  Biology or Botany are more specific categories for questions about living matter.  However, I'm in a good mood because it's Friday.  Check the link.
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In astronomy, heliocentrism is the theory that the Sun is at the center of the Universe and/or the Solar System. The word is derived from the Greek (Helios = "Sun" and kentron = "Center"). Historically, heliocentrism is opposed to geocentrism and currently to modern geocentrism, which places the earth at the center. (The distinction between the Solar System and the Universe was not clear until modern times, but extremely important relative to the controversy over cosmology and religion.
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Numerology and Astrology are historically related to  Science and Astronomy. \n\nA very good question. Astronomy is the physical science of learning about our universe, how do planets and stars and solar systems and galaxies form. How long do they last? Where are they going. It is full of beauty and amazing, almost magical truths.\n\nAstrology is an occult or magical belief that the stars, planets, sun and moon effect or influence our daily lives here on earth. Some of the great astronomers and scientists of ancient times, even Kepler and Newton believed in the ideas of astrology and numerology.\n\nNow to answer your question. Your date of birth is hard to interpret because it might mean October 2nd or February 10th different countries use different ways of writing dates. Also Indian or Vedic Astrology and numerology are VERY different than Western Astrology.\n\nYou might like the Vedic site below. Using "mathpatiprakash" as the input it gives your name number as 2. And among other interpretations says your best professions would be working with (or as) Diplomats, arbitrators, real estate, salesmen, politicians, teachers, researchers, reformers.\n\nUsing Feb 10 1971 it computes your psychic number as   1 and your destiny number as 2!
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The apple story is an exaggeration at best, a myth at worst.  I don't know too much about it, but my understanding is that Kepler had made three assertations concerning the motion of heavenly bodies and Newton found the mathematics that fit the results.  Everyone knew the moon hung in the sky, circling the Earth forever, but no one knew why.  On Earth (where people draw most of their experiences and intuition), it seemed that objects wouldn't accelerate on their own accord unless they were in contact with something.  Newton's insight was that objects can accelerate without contact, and the same force that pulls objects (like apples) towards the ground is the force that "holds" the moon in its orbit.
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Nowadays astronomy has little to do with astrology. Astrology is not a true science, it has much to do with myths and legends from the ancient, where there was no knowledge about the Moon geology. All they knew about the moon was when the phases occurred, and the relation with the tides. Probably the relation between a Tamil language and the moon comes from a legend between ancient gods.
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"Astronomy is often called the oldest of the sciences. Whether this is true or not is a matter of some conjecture. What is true is that throughout recorded history Man has a shown a fascination for the heavens and the arrangement of the stars, the literal meaning of "astronomy" in Greek. Today, astronomy normally refers to the systematic observations of heavenly bodies, while astrophysics refers to the branch of science that attempts to understand these observations using more fundamental concepts in mathematics and physics. Some people make this distinction; others use "astronomy" and "astrophysics" interchangeably. \nIt is often felt that astronomy as a scientific discipline emerged from the Babylonian culture. It was the Babylonians who first developed the mathematics necessary to make accurate predictions from the observed patterns on the sky. There is no doubt, however, that many other cultures may have used astronomical observations for time keeping purposes and perhaps even to ascertain directions for navigation."
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Greetings! \n\nI have no doubt you actually know the best places to find information Astronomy, I'll preach to the choir and give you some links. And I always check out University sites before anything else.\n\nPersonally I enjoy 'vintage' astronomy like...Kepler's Laws, Centripetal and Centrifugal Force, Elipses, Mean and True Place Of The Earth Or A Planet at Perihelion and at Aphelion ..... \n\nThanks for taking me out of my comfort zone today!  (And don't forget the last link....I read that it's pretty good!)
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Listed is a site that has a variety of information on the history of telescopes, including information about Keplerian Telescopes. Also try using Wikipedia.
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Yes we can trust astronomy, as astronomy is largely made up of observational studies.  You want to be an ameteur astronomer plop down a couple hundred bucks for a telescope and you can explore the wonders of, well the moon really.  But I digress.  Astronomy itself is simply looking at our cosmos and seeing what's out there.  What started out as a guy with some curved glass has progressed to using variable shape optics to look at planets lightyears away.  If there's one thing in science that can be trusted it's that photons (generally) don't lie.\n\nAstrology on the other hand...\n\nAlso, a scientific theory isn't just a guess as to what's going on.  A scientific theory, to quote the oxford english dictionary, is "A scheme or system of ideas or statements held as an explanation or account of a group of facts or phenomena; a hypothesis that has been confirmed or established by observation or experiment, and is propounded or accepted as accounting for the known facts; a statement of what are held to be the general laws, principles, or causes of something known or observed."
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In India the first references to astronomy are to be found in the Rig Veda which is dated around 2000 B.C. Vedic Aryans in fact deified the Sun, Stars and Comets. Astronomy was then interwoven with astrology and since ancient times Indians have involved the planets (called Grahas) with the determination of human fortunes. The planets Shani, i.e. Saturn and Mangal i.e. Mars were considered inauspicious. \n\nIn the working out of horoscopes (called Janmakundali), the position of the Navagrahas, nine planets plus Rahu and Ketu (mythical demons, evil forces) was considered. The Janmakundali was a complex mixture of science and dogma. But the concept was born out of astronomical observations and perception based on astronomical phenomenon. In ancient times personalities like Aryabhatta and Varahamihira were associated with Indian astronomy. \n\nIt would be surprising for us to know today that this science had advanced to such an extent in ancient India that ancient Indian astronomers had recognized that stars are same as the sun, that the sun is center of the universe (solar system) and that the circumference of the earth is 5000 Yojanas. One Yojana being 7.2 kms., the ancient Indian estimates came close to the actual figure. \n\nIn Indian languages, the science of Astronomy is today called Khagola-shastra. The word Khagola perhaps is derived from the famous astronomical observatory at the University of Nalanda which was called Khagola. It was at Khagola that the famous 5th century Indian Astronomer Aryabhatta studied and extended the subject. \n\nAryabhatta is said to have been born in 476 A.D. at a town called Ashmaka in today's Indian state of Kerala. When he was still a young boy he had been sent to the University of Nalanda to study astronomy. He made significant contributions to the field of astronomy. He also propounded the Heliocentric theory of gravitation, thus predating Copernicus by almost one thousand years. \n\nAryabhatta's Magnum Opus, the Aryabhattiya was translated into Latin in the 13th century. Through this translation, European mathematicians got to know methods for calculating the areas of triangles, volumes of spheres as well as square and cube root. Aryabhatta's ideas about eclipses and the sun being the source of moonlight may not have caused much of an impression on European astronomers as by then they had come to know of these facts through the observations of Copernicus and Galileo. \n\nBut considering that Aryabhatta discovered these facts 1500 years ago, and 1000 years before Copernicus and Galileo makes him a pioneer in this area too. Aryabhatta's methods of astronomical calculations expounded in his Aryabhatta-Siddhatha were reliable for practical purposes of fixing the Panchanga (Hindu calendar). Thus in ancient India, eclipses were also forecast and their true nature was perceived at least by the astronomers. \n\nThe lack of a telescope hindered further advancement of ancient Indian astronomy. Though it should be admitted that with their unaided observations with crude instruments, the astronomers in ancient India were able to arrive at near perfect measurement of astronomical movements and predict eclipses. \n\nIndian astronomers also propounded the theory that the earth was a sphere. Aryabhatta was the first one to have propounded this theory in the 5th century. Another Indian astronomer, Brahmagupta estimated in the 7th century that the circumference of the earth was 5000 yojanas. A yojana is around 7.2 kms. Calculating on this basis we see that the estimate of 36,000 kms as the earth's circumference comes quite close to the actual circumference known today. \n\nThere is an old Sanskrit Sloka (couplet) which is as follows: \n\n"Sarva Dishanaam, Suryaha, Suryaha, Suryaha." \n\nThis couplet means that there are suns in all directions. This couplet which describes the night sky as full of suns, indicates that in ancient times Indian astronomers had arrived at the import