Subtitle: Ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus' catalog is discovered hiding under writings on ancient parchment that had been scraped off and reused for centuriesAncient Greek astronomer Hipparchus' long-lost map of the stars has been found hidden under writings on a parchment that was reused for centuries
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I see a cyclops smiley face in there.
I sincerely doubt that they knew what they had there.
Hollywood was around 2000 years ago? Who knew? :-)
For more detail on crystal lenses used by people as far back as the Old Kingdom Egypt, see “The Crystal Sun” by Robert Temple (deceased).
Most lenses are classified as “jewelry” and hidden in displays of such or are in museum basements. Many of they have dioptre measurements and were used as eyeglasses, others as lenses in tubes, ie telescopes.
Blurb:
https://www.robert-temple.com/crystalSunMain.html
All I’ve got to say is: the manufacture of ancient parchment must have been pretty darn good to keep Hipparchus’ astronomical data legible after being written over for centuries.
Kind of reminds me of modern computers. You can delete a document on a PC, but that only means somebody changed the the file extension. The document is there, unless it was truly written over — or cleaned as Hillary puts it.
And likewise, in this ancient text, the entire document was not available, only the data from one constellation was retrieved.
Has man progressed or gone backward since this Ancient Greek astronomer’s time on Earth? Inquiring minds want to know :- )
Gee, that works..... ONLY IF YOU BELIEVE THE WORLD IS ROUND!..............
Could this be the same Aratus of Soli that writes for the Washington Post?
“it state the longitude and latitude coordinations...”
Longitude and latitude? 2000 years ago? How’d they do that?
