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Cosmic Multicultural Bucharest in the Pandemic (23) By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe

By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe posted 12-03-2021 04:38

  
Cosmic Multicultural Bucharest in the Pandemic (23):
In Front of Spiru Haret’s House
By Andrei Dorian Gheorghe (astro-photo-poem-essay) and Florin Alexandru Stancu (design)

“Sur l’invariabilité des grandes axes des orbites planétaires” in French or “On the invariability of the major axis of planetary orbits” is the legendary title of a work in Romanian astronomy through which Spiru Haret obtained the Ph.D. degree at the Sorbonne University in Paris in 1878.
Then this astronomer returned to his native country, where he became the best minister of education in Romania’s history.

On November 8, 2020
I looked at his French Neo-Classical and Neo-Baroque house (made in 1885), which is “completed” today with four modern floors.
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There the Sun even smiled at me:
“Yes, Spiru Haret was right in his revolutionary work!” 
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Then a solar reflection shifted my gaze to the next building, a charming castle made in the 1900s in French Renaissance style (architect: Grigore Cerchez), and I thought maybe Spiru Haret went down in time to give astronomy lessons to the famous characters of the French Renaissance writer François Rabelais.
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But when I wanted to leave that French corner of old Bucharest,
I even heard Gargantua and Pantagruel ask me:
“Do you think Aristarchus of Samos was right
when he developed the first heliocentric model? “
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#poetry
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