"Man has always been fascinated with the solemn and mysterious parade of the celestial luminaries across the night sky. As the earliest-known texts of various ancient cultures attest, the stars were commonly grouped into constellation figures which were believed to represent divine persons, sacred animals and other objects of religious importance.Of course, each of the major cultures stemming from the Near East, the Far East and the New World developed an indigenous system of constellation figures and associated legends which were recorded in written texts or depicted in maps or on globes.
Of these various constellation systems, the Sumerian/Babylonian system of constellations would prove to be the most influential as it was their system that through successive adoptions, modifications and additions by Greek/Roman, Islamic and European astronomers evolved into the mathematically defined system of 88 constellations that is currently employed in the international astronomical community. "
Link & Source : Historical Celestial Atlases on the Web 1000's of images like below.
1 comment:
And we had the nerve to call them uncivil and crude. Man the things I would do with a time machine, hanging out with the Miyan honeys and talking stars with some guy wearing bird wings on a night that held a sky of stars free from light pollution. Ok the stars would be second priority too the Miyan lovelies but I'm just saying.
Post a Comment