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…)
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Apollo, Adonis and Helios were Greek Gods of the Sun
Apollo, Adonis and Helios were Greek gods of the Sun, all borrowed from older civilizations which had been content to venerate, and to calculate only when necessity demanded. But the Greeks loved knowledge for its own sake. Soon they were poking their inquisitive minds into the nature and movements of their deity. How far was the Sun from the Earth?… (more…)
The Moon goddesses showed the usual carelessness of all variable people
The Moon goddesses showed the usual carelessness of all variable people, and seemed quite unable to keep together their own property. The great temple of Artemis at Ephesus had to be built and rebuilt. She deserted the classical temple one October night in 356 B. C. Presumably she had crossed to Macedonia, where she presided at the birth of Alexander… (more…)
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- 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
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