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To: Alamo-Girl
I read through it briefly. There were a lot of passages about stars that I glanced at but didn't carefully examine. Let me read it carefully and get back to you. My cousin's a fairly well known archaeologist, so I guess this stuff's in the blood.

There seems to be somewhat of a mystery about when orbits were really proposed. Ptolemy clearly used the idea, which says no later than 150 BC, but I gather it's not clear how much older the idea was. I'm at work at the moment, and most of my history books are at home.

I did find this at NASA.

http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/ask/a11846.html

2,289 posted on 08/23/2003 2:05:31 PM PDT by Right Wing Professor
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To: Right Wing Professor
Wow! Thank you so much for the link on your cousin's books!!!

And thank you for the scoop on the history of predicting solar eclipses!

I look forward to any light you can shed on the antiquity of Enoch. Hugs!

2,291 posted on 08/23/2003 2:17:56 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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