Alas for permanency! The ancient Egyptians forgot in their calculations that the rising and setting points of heavenly bodies are likewise dependent upon the Earth. The stars do not rise now, where they rose in ancient times. The poles of the Earth are not remaining in one place while the Earth spins around. They too have a motion and every… (more…)
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“Twentyfour hours” is a clumsy mode of expression
Wake! for the Sun who scatter’d into flight The Stars before him from the Field of Night, Drives Night along with them from Heav’n, and strikes The Sultán’s Turret with a Shaft of Light. OMAR KHAYYAM, The Rubaiyat The change from night to day and day to night is so obvious that names to distinguish one from the other must… (more…)
In antiquity, sand glasses were much less important than water clocks
In antiquity, sand glasses were much less important than water clocks, but their influence lasted longer. The middle ages took them, as the Greeks had taken the water clock–to time the length of speeches. Even in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries they were to be found in every church. When the minister started preaching the clock was started, and when… (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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