In Arabic astronomy the twins were seen as peacocks. In Egyptian astrology they were twin goats, or else the two gods, Horus the Elder and Horus the Younger, while classical Greek mythology identified them as the twin brothers, Castor and Pollux, aka The Gemini, from the Latin word for twi...
The Sumarians, Babylonians, Indians, Chinese and Egyptians develop astronomy. The stars appear to form patterns in the sky that are visible every year. These patterns are considered fixed and are called constellations. The Chinese divide the sky into 28 constellations; the Indians into 27. The ...
1.a less common word forcynical 2.(Astronomy)astronomyof or relating to Sirius, the Dog Star [C16: via Latin from GreekKunikos,fromkuōndog] Cynic (ˈsɪnɪk) n (Philosophy) a member of a sect founded by Antisthenes that scorned worldly things and held that self-control was the ...
and of this world's sins a judge below the earth holds trial, and of dread necessity declares the word of doom. But the good, through the nights alike, and through the days unending, beneath the sun's bright ray, tax no the soil with the strength of their hands, nor the broad sea ...
The ancient Greeks get blamed for everything wrong with astronomy before the Renaissance, but they were astute enough to notice that while most stars stood still, some wandered from year to year. The wordplanetcomes from the Greek word for “wandering.” ...
A peculiar feature of Anaximander's astronomy is that the celestial bodies are said to be like chariot wheels (the Greek words for this image are presumably his own). The rims of these wheels are of opaque vapor, they are hollow, and filled with fire. This fire shines through at openings...
天文学,哲学,民♥主♥政♥治♥ Astronomy, philosophy, and democracy. 好极了,非常棒 Bravo! Very good. 给我一个英文字 Now, give me a word... 任何一个,我会证明它的字源是希腊文 any word...and I show you, how the root of that word...is Greek. Sweet Lord, ...
Urania, the Muse of Astronomy Clio, the Muse of Historical and Heroic Poetry, her name meant 'Proclaimer' Polyhymnia, the Muse of Hymns Calliope, the Muse of EpicsThe last Muse, Calliope, had a child with the King of Thrace. The child's name was Orpheus. There's a great story about...
Astronomy, as well as the mathematics and mechanics associated with it at this time, became the object of precise and systematic research (Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius of Perga. Diophantus of Alexandria, Aristarchus of Samos, Hipparchus, Ptolemy, Hero of Alexandria, and others). There were ...
Their name means "Daughters of Pleione" and also "Ladies of Plenty" from the Greek word pleiôn "plenty."FAMILY OF THE PLEIADESPARENTS[1.1] ATLAS (Hesiod Astronomy Frag 1, Aeschylus Frag 172, Ovid Metamorphoses 6.172) [1.2] ATLAS & PLEIONE (Apollodorus 3.110, Hyginus Fabulae 192, Hyginus ...