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That tallies with ancient sources that refer to such devices. Cicero, writing in the first century BC, mentions an instrument “recently constructed by our friend Poseidonius, which at each revolution reproduces the same motions of the sun, the moon and the five planets.” Archimedes is also said to have made a small planetarium, and two such devices were said to have been rescued from Syracuse when it fell in 212BC. This reconstruction suggests such references can now be taken literally.

Eh? So they used to be taken symbolically as opposed to literally?

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Eh? So they used to be taken symbolically as opposed to literally?

That's how historiand and archaeologists deal with writing that contradicts their favorite theory. They claim the writing was symbolic rather than literal or simply dismiss it. Much easier that way.

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