Now, since we are flying faster than the speed of light, historical events are enacted before our eyes. True, we see the result before we see the cause; but our point of view becomes only the more philosophic by that reversal. All the historic disputes are settled. So it was Homer (not another man named Homer) who wrote the epics!… (more…)
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Three simple divisions of the day: Sunrise, noon and sunset
We can only guess how the Egyptians worked out the observations. They may have used equal altitudes of the Sun, marked their directions and bisected the angle. Possibly they employed the equal altitudes of stars, or bisected the extreme angles of the pole star. Since any definite knowledge of them begins with pyramid inscriptions and since they had worked out… (more…)
The Babylonians used a single peg with three concentric circles
With a few sticks or pegs, the Egyptians could make their first simple observations. They selected a level area and drove one peg into the ground to mark the point of observation. The observer sitting at that point ordered his assistant to drive in another peg at the direction of the rising or setting Sun. This operation was repeated day… (more…)
The Sun was worshiped as a god before the history of man’s religion began
The center of gravity of the solar system is within the Sun. This huge body of fire gives to us and to all the other planets light and heat. It binds them together in the pattern which their combined motion creates. We are so used to receiving what the Sun brings us that we take its donations as a matter… (more…)
The little “rings with wings”
If the Sun is bright and the temperature too low for comfortable outdoor observations, you can still give a splendid demonstration by casting the projection onto a piece of white cardboard set at right angles to the telescope in an otherwise darkened room. In such projections the only visible portion of the Sun is the disc, known to astronomers as… (more…)
- Important events in astronomical history
- 24 Hours is a Clumsy Mode of Expression
- 50 Years of Listening for Aliens
- A Slightly Inaccurate Calculation
- Astronomers in the Middle Ages
- Babylonian Astrology
- Big Clue to Stonehenge
- China UFO sparks rampant speculation
- Chinese Science and the Equinox
- Dissapearance of Water Clocks
- Early Studies in the Nature of lLight
- Greek Gods of the Sun
- Ingenuity and Scientific Care in Egyptian Construction
- Local Mean Time of the Observation and GMT
- Monotheism in the Valley of the Nile
- Moon Complicated Everything
- Noon and Sunset
- Polar Auroras or Dance of the Spirits
- Sand Glasses Vs. Water Clocks
- Seasonal Change from Summer to Winter
- Space and Galaxies
- Sun's Changing Declination
- The Astronomy in Babylonia
- The Belt Known as the Zodiac
- The Chinese Observed Sunspots in Ancient Tmes
- The Ecliptic is the Path of the Sun
- The End of Twilight
- The Evening and the Morning
- The First Great Division of Time
- The Little "Rings with Wings"
- The Moon Goddesses
- The Moon is Irregular
- The Moon is Linked with the Superstitions
- The Sight of Earthshine
- The Sun was Worshiped as a God
- The Time Has Come…
- The Wrath of Heaven
- Thousands flock to see asteroid pod in Japan
- Time Appears to Be Neglected
- Time Reckoning Methods in Rome
- Universe and Secrets
- We Have Babylon…
- What is the Sun Declination?
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