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Introduction
00:00 • 2min
Geocentrism - The Origin of the Earth
02:09 • 3min
The Ancient Greek Pythagorean School of Thoughts
04:55 • 2min
Is There a Counter Earth?
07:04 • 3min
Aristotle's Fifth Elements - Ether
10:02 • 3min
Aristotle's Rejection of Action at a Distance
13:12 • 3min
The Ptolemaic Model
16:13 • 5min
Copernicus Model of the Universe
21:04 • 3min
Why Did Tycho Brahi Have a Metal Nose?
24:08 • 2min
Comets and the History of Astronomy
26:30 • 2min
Aristotle's Supernova
28:14 • 2min
The Evolution of the Universe
30:17 • 2min
Galileo and the Telescope
32:18 • 2min
The Milky Way
33:51 • 2min
How to See Parallax Shifts With the Fixed Stars
36:02 • 4min
The Distance to the Fixed Stars
39:35 • 2min
Aristotle's Theory of the Universe
41:44 • 2min
Descartes's Theory of Vortices
43:33 • 2min
The Fixed Stars Are Far Away From the Earth
45:30 • 2min
How to Calculate the Distance to the Star Sirius
47:21 • 2min
Newton's Theory of Gravity
49:37 • 4min
The Milky Way Is a Dense Band of Stars
53:20 • 2min
Jimmy Akins Mysterious World
54:54 • 5min
The Milky Way
59:45 • 2min
The Milky Way Isn't the Only Thing in the Universe
01:01:31 • 4min
The Great Debate
01:05:14 • 3min
Shapley vs Curtis - The Spiral Nebulas
01:08:26 • 2min
Spiral Nebulas - Why Didn't They Carry the Day?
01:10:45 • 3min
What Is a Variable Star?
01:13:42 • 5min
Hubbld's Sepiad Formula - The Nebula of Andromeda
01:18:21 • 2min
Hubble's Letter to Shapley
01:20:22 • 3min
Jimmy, What Dl We Have for Mysterious Headlines?
01:23:09 • 3min
The Milky Way
01:25:53 • 2min
Jimmy Yakin's Mysterious World
01:27:31 • 2min



How did humanity come to know the world around us, the structure of our planet, our solar system, and the universe. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss the mystery of the nature of the universe and the historical figures who found the answers we have today.