Re: CHAT: Visible planets (was: Corpses)
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, November 10, 2003, 5:05 |
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Isidora Zamora scripsit:
> Now, I've got one more question...Is there any difficulty in identifying
> the Morning Star and the Evening Star with each other. Are they very
> likely to think that they are two separate bodies rather than one? (I
> wouldn't know, because I have never really studied any astronomy.)
It's possible. Homer definitely does not know, in the 12th century B.C.E.,
that Hesperos and Phosphoros are the same thing. Plato in about 350 B.C.E.
definitely does; Pythagoras around 500 B.C.E. supposedly did as well.
It's basically a question of having the correct insight rather than
anything related to observation.
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