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The whole practice of combing through old documents searching for confused accounts of astronomical phenomena is fascinating to me. I wonder if there is any ch
by jlgreco 14y ago
The whole practice of combing through old documents searching for confused accounts of astronomical phenomena is fascinating to me. I wonder if there is any chance of crowd-sourcing that kind of searching. Language issues would probably prevent that from working too well though.
- shardling 14y agoThere's a pretty interesting study of Homer's The Odyssey from that perspective. Pop-science story about it: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=homers-odyssey-may-document-eclipse http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=homers-odys... Original article: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2008/06/23/0803317105.abstract http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2008/06/23/0803317105.abst...
- btilly 14y agoMy favorite reconstruction of an ancient astronomical phenomena is http://www.mysterium.com/chinese.html http://www.mysterium.com/chinese.html. The same conjunction is apparently also referred to in the Illiad.