Thank you. The early Mayans were adept at astronomy and knew about precession of the equinoxes. Their solar system maps included things that could not be seen with any known visual aid, and the only record of Mayans' technology assist in the area was the monocle, made from carefully polished and cut semi=precious stones. I can't explain it. Then again, I can't explain television, either.
I've tried for a couple of days to come up with it, but I can't find the link I had to the talk about the underlying positions for Hipparchus's star catalogue having been derived from the earlier Mesopotamian catalog.
Thank you. The early Mayans were adept at astronomy and knew about precession of the equinoxes. Their solar system maps included things that could not be seen with any known visual aid, and the only record of Mayans' technology assist in the area was the monocle, made from carefully polished and cut semi=precious stones. I can't explain it. Then again, I can't explain television, either.
Fascinating. Especially his star catalog and how it was found. Thank you so much for enlightening.
Love those palimpsests! You never know what you will find. Ad astra per menbranae!
I've tried for a couple of days to come up with it, but I can't find the link I had to the talk about the underlying positions for Hipparchus's star catalogue having been derived from the earlier Mesopotamian catalog.
So I'll just leave these here - from Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies 2016: https://aaatec.org/documents/article/jmh1.pdf
Shaeffer's argument about the Farnese atlas: https://www.phys.lsu.edu/farnese/JHAFarneseProofs.htm
David W. Duke's response: https://web.archive.org/web/20070221101517/http://www.csit.fsu.edu/~dduke/farnese4.pdf
None of which makes recovering a copy of Hipparchus's catalogue less interesting - it makes it more interesting.
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Well that’s frickin’ cool.