so the names accorded to planets by the Romans still hold sway over astronomy. The Romans named the planet after their king of gods, Jupiter, who was also the god of the sky and of thunder. Why choose to name the planet Jupiter?
The Romans Replaced the Names of the Greek Gods With Their Gods Time kept on passing. In the first century BC, the Roman Empire began to emerge. The Romans used the same seven-day system as the Greeks. And they considered the Greek gods to be the same as their own gods, simply called...
Before that, the Romans counted a year at 355 days, at least for a time. But still, under Julius, there was drift. There were too many leap years! The solar year isn’t precisely 365.25 days! It’s 365.242 days, said Nick Eakes, an astronomy educator at the Morehead Planetarium...
Mercury is the smallest and innermost planet in the Solar System. But here’s a question, how did Mercury get its name? Like all the planets, Mercury is named after one of the Roman gods, which were based on the gods worshipped by the Ancient Greeks. The Roman god Mercury was the son...
When accounts of syphilis appeared in the sixteenth century, the disease was known by many names, including the "French disease," the "Neapolitan disease," the "Great Pox," and "lues venereum." Syphilis, the name used today, was in...
Mars is the fourth planet from the sun and is commonly known as the Red Planets. The rocks, soil and sky of it are a little red or pink. Its name was given by the Romans in honor of their god of war. People on the earth need oxygen to breathe. There is almost no oxygen on Mar...
before I ever saw Raiders of the Lost Ark I was already fascinated by the Aztecs and Incas because of Tintin and the Romans via Asterix – but also those things plus Ancient Egypt, Ancient China, the Normans, medieval history and knights etc via a big book called The History of the World...
Presumably she exists in lots of memories as lots of different people who happen to have the same name. But unlike supermedium beige holes, the non-existence of previously-existing things and people is complex, because of the different perspectives they are remembered from. But regardless, they ...
“However, there is more to the universe than the observable,” said Totani. “In contemporary cosmology, it is agreed the universe underwent a period of rapid inflation producing a vast region of expansion beyond the horizon of what we can directly observe. Factoring this greater volume into ...
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