Sonsuz evren fikrinin ortaya çıkışı ile gündeme gelen karanlık gece göğü problemi gözlemsel ve teorik kozmolojinin en önemli tartışma konularından biri olagelmiştir. Olbers Paradoksu olarak da bilinen soruna tarih boyunca pek çok çözüm önerildi. İngiliz astronom Digges ile başlayan ve daha ziyade tasvirî olan ilk dönem çözüm çabaları Chéseaux’nun kantitatif yaklaşımı ile yeni bir boyut kazandı. Söz konusu yaklaşım modern bilim metotlarının kozmolojide kullanılmasına dair ilk örneklerden biridir. Bu çalışmada Chéseaux öncesi çözüm çabalarının özeti verilecek, daha sonra Chéseaux’nun verdiği sonuçlar detaylı şekilde analiz edilerek çağdaş sonuçlarla karşılaştırılacaktır.
The dark night sky problem, which comes up with the emergence of the idea of the infinite universe, has become one of the most important discussions of observational and theoretical cosmology. The problem, also known as the Olbers paradox, has been proposed many solutions throughout history. The first period of solution, which began with British astronomer Digges and was more descriptive, gained a new dimension with the quantitative approach of Chéseaux. This approach is one of the first examples of the use of modern science methods in cosmology. In this study, a summary of the pre-Chéseaux solution efforts will be given, and then the results obtained by Chéseaux will be analyzed in detail and compared with the contemporary results.
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