wrote:
>
> The Word Planet means Wanderer. The Ancient Greeks could
distinguish between Planets and Stars.
Of course they could. And so could farmers and
sailors, anyone who needed to pay close attention
to the sky night after night. There was nothing
the least bit "occult" about it.
Bob seems to think the way ordinary people told
the difference between stars and planets was that
the planets were *brighter*. Most of them are
brighter, but that's not how people knew they were
different.
They knew the planets were different because
the stars stayed put in their fixed
constellations, while the planets "wandered" among
them. Very obvious to anyone who's watching the
sky carefully for even just a few weeks.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_astronomy
>
> MarkMeredith2002 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 14:38:09 -0000
> Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: New Jyotish
>
>
> Hindus did make many significant early contributions to astronomy,
> here's one of many good articles:
> http://www.hvk.org/articles/0802/214.html
>
> But the theory that only enlightened vedic sages traveling
throughout
> the universe knew about the planets in ancient history is not true.
> Here's one of many sources on history of astronomy:
>
> http://www.astroenergetics.com/HTML/History.html
>
> Astronomy-astrology is said to have originated with the Chaldeans,
in
> Babylon, Mesopotamia, (now Iraq) around the fourth millennium BC. It
> was practiced in the temples, where it was blended with religious
> elements. Later, it spread to Egypt, and around the third millennium
> BC was being used by rulers to predict the fate of nations: war or
> peace, famine or plenty.
>
> The Chinese were also skilled astronomers, and are thought to have
> independently begun to use forms of prediction, along with the Maya
of Central America and the peoples of ancient India. Some experts
believe that Chinese astronomy may extend as far back as 5000 BC.
>
> Recent researches into the Pyramids and Sphinx of Giza suggest that
> observation of heavenly bodies may have even more distant origins.
> There is startling new evidence that the principal Giza monuments
form
> an accurate terrestial "map" of the three stars of Orion's belt as
> these constellations appeared in 10,500 BC.
>
>
> bob_brigante <no_reply@> wrote:
>
> > Europeans for hundreds of centuries could not distinguish between
> > planets and stars -- they were simply mysterious objects in the
sky.
> > If Jyotish sages did not know the difference, many thousands of
years ago, between stars and planets, then they would have confounded
the two in setting up Jyotish (the star Sirius is brighter than
Saturn), but they did not:
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