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- Jan 1, 1970
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"Terry Given" wrote
: "Hank" wrote
: > "Activ8" wrote
: > > Tom Del Rosso wrote
: > > > "Activ8" wrote
: > > >>
: > > >> Do you also doubt that there was any value to the info
lost when the
: > > >> library in Alexandria was destroyed? I'd really like to
know how the
: > > >> ancients knew of all the planets way before Galileo
invented the
: > > >> telescope.
: > > > They only knew of the planets visible to the naked eye.
: > > > But of course the library was an amazing loss.
: > > The ancients had drawn pictures in stone of 12 celestial
bodies
: > > including the 9 planets, sun, moon, and who knows what.
: > And they knew the earth was round...I think someone
(Pythagoras?) made the
: > claim.
Pre dates Pythagoras by many centuries at least, since the
Phoenicians could navigate by the stars long before his birth.
Also a Greek measured the diameter and was pretty close to correct
before the Great Mathematician got involved with trying to
describe the "music of the spheres!"
: >
: > Amazing all that information got lost for so long.
: >
: > This has me thinking of a new topic of conversation...
: >
:
: Don't forget concrete, which was known by the Romans but lost
for almost
: 2,000 years before being re-"discovered"
:
: Cheers
: Terry
:
:
"Terry Given" wrote
: "Hank" wrote
: > "Activ8" wrote
: > > Tom Del Rosso wrote
: > > > "Activ8" wrote
: > > >>
: > > >> Do you also doubt that there was any value to the info
lost when the
: > > >> library in Alexandria was destroyed? I'd really like to
know how the
: > > >> ancients knew of all the planets way before Galileo
invented the
: > > >> telescope.
: > > > They only knew of the planets visible to the naked eye.
: > > > But of course the library was an amazing loss.
: > > The ancients had drawn pictures in stone of 12 celestial
bodies
: > > including the 9 planets, sun, moon, and who knows what.
: > And they knew the earth was round...I think someone
(Pythagoras?) made the
: > claim.
Pre dates Pythagoras by many centuries at least, since the
Phoenicians could navigate by the stars long before his birth.
Also a Greek measured the diameter and was pretty close to correct
before the Great Mathematician got involved with trying to
describe the "music of the spheres!"
: >
: > Amazing all that information got lost for so long.
: >
: > This has me thinking of a new topic of conversation...
: >
:
: Don't forget concrete, which was known by the Romans but lost
for almost
: 2,000 years before being re-"discovered"
:
: Cheers
: Terry
:
: