Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: Oatka

I’ve encountered the claim that the Sumerians had pictured the entire solar system and have even been presented with the image you have provided. Who knows what knowledge they may have possessed, but if that is meant to represent what is claimed, the Sumerians missed the single most impressive aspect of our solar system - Saturn’s rings. If they were represented, I’d be impressed.


18 posted on 02/23/2010 9:50:34 AM PST by stormer
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies ]


To: stormer

You’d need a telescope to see the rings.

But you could (theoretically) figure out we live in a Copernican system with the naked eye.


19 posted on 02/23/2010 10:10:17 AM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies ]

To: stormer
Who knows what knowledge they may have possessed, but if that is meant to represent what is claimed, the Sumerians missed the single most impressive aspect of our solar system - Saturn’s rings. If they were represented, I’d be impressed.

Here's one from a website on Sumerian Astrology that claims to show just such a knowledge.


29 posted on 02/23/2010 5:03:19 PM PST by Oatka ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson