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245 pages of results. 191. The Saturn Problem [Journals] [SIS Review]
... ruler of the universe' and even as a sun-like object of dazzling splendour. Saturn's importance to the ancients forms the centrepiece of one of the most baffling mysteries of ancient astronomy, history and religion. Within the pantheons or families of deities worshipped by our ancestors, the gods and goddesses of the planets often held the highest positions, ranking ... . Are these descriptions of a brilliant Saturn mere hyperbole, exaggerated wording used by worshippers who were devotees of this particular planet? It seems not. In the driest of astronomical texts from ancient Mesopotamia Saturn is regularly referred to as the planet of the Sun'. As the Assyriologist Morris Jastrow Jr noted in 1910: Strange though it may ...
... Chapter XXXIV The Origin of Egyptian Astronomy- the Northern Schools So far we have dealt with the dawn of astronomy in Egypt. We have found that from the earliest times there were astronomical observations carried on, and that practically there were three schools of thought. To all three schools sun-worship was common, but we may clearly separate them ... the associated star-worship. We have found worshippers of northern stars, east and west stars, and southern stars. The northern star-worshippers we may associate with Annu, the east and west star cult with the pyramid fields at Gîzeh, and the southern star-worshippers with Upper Egypt. What we have to do in the present chapter is to see whether ...
... said something like this, The Assyrology, Egyptology, Biblical scholarship and all that Talmudic and Midrashic pilpul is, of course, nonsense; but I was impressed by the astronomy. ' I had rather the opposite view. But let me not be swayed by the opinion of others." I do not know why Sagan does not name ... could have been produced in this way, even if we grant the hypothesis of a close approach to the Earth by a comet." 14 It seems incredible that an astronomer appears to be ignorant of the fact that comets do indeed assume various shapes of animals with their comas and tails. In fact, in Sagan's popular book, Comet ...
194. Chapter II. The First Glimpses of Egyptian Astronomy [Books]
... Chapter II The First Glimpses of Egyptian Astronomy The Rosetta Stone. (In the British Museum.) IN the general survey, which occupied the preceding chapter, of the records left by the most ancient peoples, it was shown that Egypt, if we consider her monuments, came first in the order of time. I have next ... show that in the earliest monuments we have evidences of the existence and utilisation of astronomical knowledge. It is impossible to approach such a subject as the astronomy of the ancient Egyptians without being struck with surprise that any knowledge is available to help us in our inquiries. A century ago, the man to whom we owe more than to all ...
195. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Review]
... mathematical shapes that real sea shells do. A reader suggests that the stability of an oscillon within an otherwise unstable dynamic system could explain the Great Red Spot on Jupiter. Astronomy Establishment unshifted Sourcebook Project Anomaly register No. 3, Oct. 97, p. 1 We have mentioned the work of H. Arp before, in his fight ... 12, Astronomy Now April 1997, p. 7, New Scientist 17.5 .97, p. 18, 14.6 .97, p. 17 Astronomers are discovering more and more objects associated with the distant Kuiper Belt and, not surprisingly, they are full of surprises. One designated 1996TL66 is similar to Pluto and ...
... ." (Daily Mail, June 4, 1927.) Another astronomer, Mr. Edmund Neison, F.R .A .S . (in his work Astronomy), defines comets as a system of highly rarefied gases surrounding a mass of meteors mostly small. He thinks that these meteors are mostly the size of peas, ... comet which only becomes visible when it penetrates our atmosphere. On the other hand, a passing comet can, and I suggest not infrequently does, penetrate our atmosphere. Astronomers are extremely hazy about the composition of a comet. Professor Howe, F.R .A .S . (in Study of the Sky), defines a ...
197. Monitor [Journals] [SIS Workshop]
... behaviour of the Solar System is beyond our capability to predict. This also means that retrograde calculations regarding the behaviour of the planets in the past is equally suspect.. ASTRONOMY Groping in the dark Science Frontiers No.89, Sep-Oct 1993, p. 1 The visible matter in the Universe frequently does things that the laws of motion says ... shouldn't. Apart from black holes, astronomers have had to invent vast quantities of unseen dark matter' to try to explain this. Unfortunately for them this leads to more and more problems. Hydrocarbons in space Science Frontiers No.87, May-June 1993, p. 2 New Scientist 13.3 .93, p. 15 For 70 ...
198. NASA Astrophysics Data System Abstracts [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... 17. Abstracts of Contributed Talks and Posters presented at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Astronomische Gesellschaft at Bremen, September 18-23, 2000. In ancient times the calibration of astronomical observations with respect to the local physical horizon provided the possibility to adjust calendar data with high accuracy according to the apparent movement of the sun, the moon and the ... 2 (Dec 2002) Home | Issue Contents NASA Astrophysics Data System Abstracts Calendar Observatory for the 21st Century B. Steinrücken, T. Morawe and R. Vanscheidt in Astronomische Gesellschaft Abstract Series, Vol. 17. Abstracts of Contributed Talks and Posters presented at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Astronomische Gesellschaft at Bremen, September 18-23, 2000 ...
199. Conference: Under One Sky [Journals] [SIS Internet Digest]
... 2001) Home | Issue Contents Conference: Under One Sky star-www.dur.ac.uk/~jms/UOS/Preview/ Conference: Under One Sky: Astronomy & Mathematics in the Ancient Near East Archaeologically recovered materials from Egypt and Mesopotamia provide the earliest written sources of astronomy and mathematics known to us today. They reveal that ... by the early second millennium BC advanced mathematical techniques had been developed to solve both practical and abstract problems. In the first millennium BC, Babylonian astronomers used developments of these mathematical methods to calculate planetary and lunar phenomena such as the dates of the first and last visibilities of the planets, and eclipses of the sun and moon. This conference ...
200. Evolution from Space [Articles]
... , Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe, to whom we give a warm welcome. By any standards he is an expert on space, being Head of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Astronomy at University College, Cardiff. His studies have convinced him that not only did life arrive from space, but that it is still arriving, causing epidemics and changing ... have today, and I shall indicate that in my talk this afternoon. The central theme of my lecture today is stated very simply by the question: Is Life an Astronomical Phenomenon? Did it arise in a cosmic context, to be scattered among interstellar dust clouds as we see between the stars all over the Galaxy, or did it ...
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