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How did the ancients know enough to produce celestial sphere? | |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 72326649  United Kingdom06/03/2016 09:11 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I have been thinking about this with the mythology of Atlas. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 72312349 Atlas holds up the heavens or sky not the earth or globe and in ancient times this was depicted by Atlas holding a celestial sphere on his shoulders. Now if the ancients could only see their own night sky how did they create a sphere of the heavens rather than just a half sphere? Does it suggest they knew the earth was round? It seems to suggest they knew of the celestial bodies visible from the southern hemisphere. Are there any experts who know about this? stupid, think, its called imaginary. like when you close your eyes and masturbate to a homo video and create all those images. fingerings getting up your butt hole. that is called imaginary |
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| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 72312349 Australia06/03/2016 09:30 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I have been thinking about this with the mythology of Atlas. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 72312349 Atlas holds up the heavens or sky not the earth or globe and in ancient times this was depicted by Atlas holding a celestial sphere on his shoulders. Now if the ancients could only see their own night sky how did they create a sphere of the heavens rather than just a half sphere? Does it suggest they knew the earth was round? It seems to suggest they knew of the celestial bodies visible from the southern hemisphere. Are there any experts who know about this? stupid, think, its called imaginary. like when you close your eyes and masturbate to a homo video and create all those images. fingerings getting up your butt hole. that is called imaginary Nope The celestial spheres were much more than that. They were star maps and also showed the planetary paths. Anyone know more? |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 72312349 Australia06/03/2016 09:55 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to en.wikipedia.org (secure)] In his Metaphysics, Aristotle developed a physical cosmology of spheres, based on the mathematical models of Eudoxus. In Aristotle's fully developed celestial model, the spherical Earth is at the centre of the universe and the planets are moved by either 47 or 55 interconnected spheres that form a unified planetary system,[19] whereas in the models of Eudoxus and Callippus each planet's individual set of spheres were not connected to those of the next planet. Aristotle says the exact number of spheres, and hence the number of movers, is to be determined by astronomical investigation, but he added additional spheres to those proposed by Eudoxus and Callippus, to counteract the motion of the outer spheres. Aristotle considers that these spheres are made of an unchanging fifth element, the aether. Each of these concentric spheres is moved by its own god — an unchanging divine unmoved mover, and who moves its sphere simply by virtue of being loved by it. This was something like 350BC How did they know enough for all of this? |
