On Jun 7, 2006, at 10:55 AM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
<<http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/science/3945197.html>>
The supernova appeared in the constellation Lupus, a little
below and west of the well-known constellation of Scorpius,
the scorpion.
"What particularly got my attention about that rock and the
glyphs on it was the representation of what is pretty obviously
a star, and a bright star at that. And the figure of a scorpion.
Scorpions appear in rock in the Southwest but are not a very
common motif," Barentine said.
Do anthropologists know that North American aboriginal people thought
of that constellation as a scorpion? Just because "we" do doesn't
necessarily mean that they did.
I've often wondered whether other cultures came up with the same
constellations as the Greeks and Romans did, and that we recognize.
At least in the Northern hemisphere.
Who knew there was a constellation "Antlia", which is said to depict
an air pump? Appearing in the Southern hemisphere, Antlia was
introduced by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in the mid-18th century to
commemorate Robert Boyle's invention. Lacaille also came up with
"Horologium", the Pendulum Clock, a faint and obscure asterism of the
Southern hemisphere. Its similarity to any sort of clock is difficult
to see:
<http://www.dibonsmith.com/hor_con.gif>.)
Dave
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