Comments on: Precession of the Equinoxes Before Hipparchus? https://beforeorion.com/precession-of-the-equinoxes-before-hipparchus/ Finding the Face of the Hero Tue, 16 Apr 2024 21:44:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 By: 說中文的色情 https://beforeorion.com/precession-of-the-equinoxes-before-hipparchus/#comment-86 Mon, 17 Jul 2023 14:05:59 +0000 http://beforeorion.com/?page_id=1448#comment-86 bookmarked!!, I like your website!

]]> By: Before Orion https://beforeorion.com/precession-of-the-equinoxes-before-hipparchus/#comment-16 Tue, 06 Jul 2021 01:24:29 +0000 http://beforeorion.com/?page_id=1448#comment-16 In reply to Robert Tulip.

Robert, Thank you for reading my piece on Hipparchus and precession of the equinoxes (https://beforeorion.com/index.php/precession-of-the-equinoxes-before-hipparchus/). I will read your suggested references. Dark Night Skies, Bernie

]]> By: Robert Tulip https://beforeorion.com/precession-of-the-equinoxes-before-hipparchus/#comment-15 Sat, 03 Jul 2021 05:26:14 +0000 http://beforeorion.com/?page_id=1448#comment-15 Hello Bernie, thanks for drawing my attention to your article on Hipparchus. As I recall (will re-check), Astronomy from Babylonia to Copernicus by William O’Neill argues that Hipparchus actually calculated the speed of precession correctly, but the incorrect degree per century idea (from Timaeus?) was accepted by Ptolemy and led later astronomers on a wild goose chase to explain why the speed seemed to change, with the false idea of ‘trepidation’. Another excellent source on ancient knowledge of precession is Norman Lockyer’s study of Egyptian temple star worship. It may be that ancient societies were aware of precession without accurate knowledge of its speed. The Pan-Babylonian school investigated these issues, with an attempted debunking by Neugebauer. I gave a talk last night that discussed these themes. Have you read The Myth of Babylonian Knowledge of Precession by Gary Thompson?
Thanks, Robert Tulip

]]> By: Before Orion https://beforeorion.com/precession-of-the-equinoxes-before-hipparchus/#comment-5 Thu, 14 May 2020 03:45:48 +0000 http://beforeorion.com/?page_id=1448#comment-5 In reply to Hans.

Hans,
Thank you for reading and commenting on my blog page “Precession of the Equinoxes Before Hipparchus?” Hamlet’s Mill and Darwin’s Origin of Species have something in common. They are both books that people have a strong opinion about but haven’t actually read. Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend wrote an important book – Hamlet’s Mill – about connections between myths and the stars. They just didn’t provide any evidence that people prior to Hipparchus understood the precession of the equinoxes. Most Hamlet’s Mill followers are tied up in trying to date Plato’s mythical lost continent of Atlantis and the like. I hope that my work sheds some light in that darkness. For more on ancient astronomy.

Dark Night Skies,
Bernie Taylor

]]> By: Hans https://beforeorion.com/precession-of-the-equinoxes-before-hipparchus/#comment-4 Thu, 14 May 2020 02:48:18 +0000 http://beforeorion.com/?page_id=1448#comment-4 I appreciate your debunking of Hamlet’s Mill. Their proposed evidence did not stack up.
Thanks for setting the record straight. Is there more info out there on ancient astronomy?

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