Posted on 06/04/2007 10:50:49 AM PDT by blam
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rocks?.......Even a string and a stick would have been better......The ancient astrologers were not stupid. Their very lives depended on their measurements. If they screwed up their heads would be on the sticks........
What’s amazing is that the ancient astronomers figured out the precession of the equinoxes caused by a wobble in Earth’s spin axis. A fixed viewpoint would follow a circle in the sky, with the 12 constellations of the Zodiac in that circle. The amazing part is the precession cycle is almost 26,000 years, but they figured it out with very short observation time. No civilization lasted anywhere near long enough to observe very much of the precession arc. I wonder if they had....help?
World's oldest telescope?According to Professor Giovanni Pettinato of the University of Rome, a rock crystal lens, currently on show in the British museum, could rewrite the history of science. He believes that it could explain why the ancient Assyrians knew so much about astronomy. It is a theory many scientists might be prepared to accept, but the idea that the rock crystal was part of a telescope is something else. To get from a lens to a telescope, they say, is an enormous leap. Professor Pettinato counters by asking for an explanation of how the ancient Assyrians regarded the planet Saturn as a god surrounded by a ring of serpents?
by Dr David Whitehouse
Thursday, July 1, 1999
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“Nevertheless, these measurements allowed him to pinpoint his own position and date more precisely than he could those of the Assyrian astronomers. He is not sure why his measurements worked better.”
I wonder if the figures he had in his tables had copyist-introduced errors, as is common in later manuscripts? How about continental drift for another, somewhat wilder, explanation?
“World’s oldest telescope?”
Neat article. The ancients seemed to think that their times were degenerate, compared to earlier times. Our world seems to think we’re the Golden Age. I wonder, sometimes.
I thought that was Jacques Costeau?
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Rough life, being an Astronomer.
Rades, do you have any comment?
RA has opused out and gone to WideAwakes.net.
... and they discovered the Ouija board also dated to the same period.
Unless it were the Nefilim/Anunnaki, who would have reason to use the heavens as a time clock and calendar. Each sign of the Zodiac supposedly corresponded to the length of earth time marking the beginning and end of rulership of the Pantheon members. Also used to determine the location of the rogue planet (Nibiru, original home of the Nefilim) at any given time within its 3,600-year (shar) orbit around the sun. (Re: Sitchin)
I'm sure no man-made clocks/calendars would have lasted that long, except perhaps some of the ancient observatories/temples (including the pyramid) which were oriented (astro-archeologically) to point to zero degrees of the houses.
IIRC, Marduk (son of Enki), according to myth, got his panties all in a wad and started a war to usurp the throne early, claiming that he was allowed to use lunar time instead of solar time.
"Do you have a reputable link for that?" /sarc
Cheers!
I assure you we are in a golden age.
Not the first, won't be the last (Well, maybe this one will, we do have the technological capability to clear the planet of all meaningful life).
I expect that as no more of this Great Society will survive the next Ice Age than survived the last one...
Dang!
I’m not sure, but it seems to have happened during the bugzapper thread. They were discussing it over here...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1840286/posts?page=1072#1072
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