Four amazing astronomical discoveries from ancient Greece

[Admin]

Almost as interesting as what they knew, however, is what they did not know.

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[Astro]

Well if you take into account that much of the Greek history has been disputed by historians worlwide because of no evidence for a lot of claims, and knowing that the Greeks were caught multiple times smuggling artifacts from around the Mediterranean claiming they were excavated in Greece, i am not trusting this post much.

If the Greeks knew th Solar system was heliocentric, that knowledge would be popular at least in Europe and at least accepted by the Greek Orthodoxy. Holding facts in hands, i would say there is a pretty big chance that these "discoveries" are falsified and smuggled in the history books these last 100 years.

 

[rod]

FYI, it is always good to look into how many extant texts exist with Greek astronomy referenced and the earliest dates for those documents. Claudius Ptolemy recorded much in his writings near 150 A.D. and this work was used throughout the time of Tycho Brahe until Copernicus became more popular and Galileo used the telescope to show small lights moved around Jupiter. Concerning the heliocentric solar system, Philo about 50 A.D. mentioned this too in his writings. He was providing an allegorical interpretation of Genesis 2 where the Tree of Life could be like the Sun and the planets arranged around it but others considered the Earth was the center. So Philo near 50 A.D. understood that there was a heliocentric solar system view but also the geocentric teaching was the most popular it seems. We have these records well documented, ref. The Works of Philo of Alexandria.

 

[Lovethrust]

Well if you take into account that much of the Greek history has been disputed by historians worlwide because of no evidence for a lot of claims, and knowing that the Greeks were caught multiple times smuggling artifacts from around the Mediterranean claiming they were excavated in Greece, i am not trusting this post much.

If the Greeks knew th Solar system was heliocentric, that knowledge would be popular at least in Europe and at least accepted by the Greek Orthodoxy. Holding facts in hands, i would say there is a pretty big chance that these "discoveries" are falsified and smuggled in the history books these last 100 years.

The Greeks in general did not believe in a heliocentric universe but Aristarchus and a few others did. While his writing on it may not have survived Archimedes wrote about it in the third century bc so this is no hoax, modern or otherwise. Nobody contests the genuineness of his work...

“Unfortunately, Aristarchus works where the heliocentric model is presented are lost. His theories on the universe have been pieced together from later works and references. One of the most important and clear is the one mentioned by Archimedes in his book The Sand Reckoner:

[...] ‘universe’ is the name given by most astronomers to the sphere whose centre is the centre of the Earth and whose radius is equal to the straight line between the centre of the Sun and the centre of the Earth. [...] But Aristarchus of Samos brought out a book consisting of certain hypotheses, in which the premises lead to the result that the universe is many times greater than that now so called. His hypotheses are that the fixed stars and the Sun remain unmoved, that the Earth revolves about the Sun in the circumference of a circle, the Sun lying in the middle of the orbit, and that the sphere of the fixed stars, situated about the same centre as the Sun, is so great that the circle in which he supposes the Earth to revolve bears such a proportion to the distance of the fixed stars as the centre of the sphere bears to its surface.

Archimedes

Archimedes (l. 287-212 BCE) was a Greek engineer and inventor who is regarded as the greatest mathematician of antiquity and one the greatest of all time. He is credited with a number of inventions...

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