Ancient Greek Astronomy
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- How the ancient Greeks understood the universe; what they got right and what they got wrong. How Aristotle understood the Earth was round by observing lunar eclipses; how Aristarchus of Samos used these results to work out the relative sizes of Earth, the Sun, and Moon, how Eratosthenes of Cyrene measured Earth's circumference, and how Hipparchus of Nicaea determined created the first catalog of stars and discovered Earth's 26,000 year axial precession, Finally, we take a look at Claudius Ptolemy's collection of works in the Almagest, and how he came up with a system of epicycles to explain planets' retrograde motion.
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Early astronomy sounds more challenging than it does now due to a lot of reliance on assumptions, even Eratosthenes had to assume the distance between Alexandria and Seyene. Ptolemy's idea of epicycles and the difference around Earth to explain retrograde motion was very interesting, and definitely a thinker in his free time!
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We just got our first telescope after using binoculars for a while, and he is enamored with space. I'm trying to learn my history to at least answer some of his questions. Thank you for this
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I'm going through your older videos and find them interesting and valuable. A while back I took Coursera class on astro-archaeology. This professor claimed the shafts in the Great Pyramid of Khufu could not be ventilation shafts because vertical ones would sufficed and have been easier to make. He also claimed that the south facing shafts pointed to the stars in Orion's belt and Sirius. His conclusion was that the shafts were to "direct symbolically the Pharaoh to his proper destinations in the sky."
That's very interesting. I understood it to be so that the Pharaoh could watch his kingdom but I'm willing to defer to the archeologists on that one.
@@LaunchPadAstronomy you guys still believe it was built for the pharaohs? Why? Do you not realize that the shafts point to the constellations because they MAYBE directly influence the power generates in the giza pyramid? I mean cmon use common sense.
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This was such a fun video, I hope you still make videos like these, I learned a lot
Thanks! I've made a few others since this one.
Great video ! I used information in this video as schema for part of my "year work" and of course I included your video in links.
Fantastic, I'm glad it helped. Thanks so much for letting me know!
Excellent video. Great explanations of the concepts involved.
Thanks, Retrograde!
Lovely explanations. I think Hipparchus' and Aristarchus' calculations of the distance and size of the sun and moon would've been even more awesome. It shows that we didn't just come up with the knowledge we have today and just how effective math, in this case trigonometry, is.
Thanks. Thought about going there with the trig but wanted to keep it at the 101 level.
Beautiful work
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Thank you!
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Aristotle's haircut is dope. Hhaha
Thanks for video. Your video was shown in our class this morning. Just doing a review
Glad you liked it! Aristotle was pretty jacked as well. The dude lifted.
This video is informative
I am working on interpreting this to spanish, for personal use, and its kicking my ass. Thanks for the video.
jeez this helped me so much. thanks
I'm glad you found it helpful. Cheers!
I have liked the video now & watch it later because undobtly ancient technology was great.
Best explaination ❤️
Based on the video, state the important contributions of ancient philosophers in ancient astronomy and how do we utilize them in our day to day basis?
Wasn’t it Eudoxus of Knidus, almost 4 centuries before who proposed an explanation to retrograde motion ?
Super
Great video!
Very helpful!!! thank you
Eratosthenes was one hell of a genius .
For real (if he was still alive to this very day flat-earthers would yell at him
Thanks.
Superb work!
Thank you!
great video! this was really helpful for my research on early astronomy! i don't doubt your research abilities, however, i'm sure you've experienced how difficult it is to find correct information online, especially on youtube. that being said, is there any way you could list your sources for the information you presented?
What can you not verify? Everything can be looked up yourself.
Nice video! Query: 2:34 wasn’t the idea that the stars are at varying distances from the earth (or sun) rejected by ancient astronomers? Wasn’t the idea of a celestial sphere the prevailing idea?
Not all , anything that went against the teachings of religion wasn’t talked about as openly
I did not know this
The idea that anyone today believes that the earth is flat is also BS.
Ha ha says someone who thinks spinning around a vacuum of space at 66666mph, whilst rotating at 1k mph 🙄 🤣 😀
@@darrenenright1728because we are
@Iburn247 in your mind you are ! It fantasy & programming at thd highest level. If you take the time to research it's an obvious, provable deception. They're numerous demonstrable,repeatable proofs that expose the ridiculous heliocentric lie. Start at the moon landings which are absolutely nonsense!
Amazing video! But I had a question. You mentioned that the library of Alexandria was burnt and its contents were lost. And Claudius Ptolemy had complied most of the work and published in Almagest. Julius Ceaser sieged the city in 48 BC and around the same time the library was set on fire. Ptolemy wasn't born until 100 CE. Could you please check this? How was Ptolemy able to gather information for his book?
It was burnt twice
Imagine if the star parralax thing was visible the whole history would have been different.
So would the entire universe, since everything would be a whole lot closer :)
Erastosthenes of Cyrene wasn’t the first to calculate the earths circumference, not even close
Nise
Now that’s genius 😳 we just study the stuff in books which was worked on by actual geniuses and think we are intelligent :p I mean just look how they observed and amount of reasoning they put in! Such a class !
before aristotle, Valmiki wrote ramayana and described our sky very accurately. Indians knew about astrophysics before aristotle and all.
i using this to teach
Daniel Requejo, you’re teaching misinformation...
Daniel Requejo, use your own works and convictions to teach !
It's important to be clear the Earth's shadow only crosses the moon only during eclipses and not during normal lunar cycles.
Imagine using math, current data, and recorded history at the same time to come up with current knowledge….
Where is the second part of this video?
15:15
Is this a Evolution of ancient Greek astronomy?
thought the Earth was a sphere. Wording is important for the right meaning.
Ptolemy is and was right. Ever heard of the the Golden ratio. It's in everything. Why would as above be any different??
I'm curious about which names gave the Greeks to the planets. Did they called the planet Jupiter: Zeus? It it apparent to the naked eye that Jupiter is the biggest planet? Also would be interesting to see which solar system models were developed by Eastern Asians
Jupiter = Zeus Pater ( God + Father )
Zeus = Deus , Dios Dio
Sphere, like a globe, not round like a pancake. 3D not 2D, X, Y, Z, not X, Y.
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What about Anaximander and the Central Fire. Was he not Greek?
If you did the epicycle animation, awesome. I tried to create them myself several years ago in adobe flash, but i was absolutely confused by the equant, eccentric, et cetera.
Im working on a video now on the history of gravity before newton. Ptolemy really did a number on astronomy, but his model had the math and the church behind it.
Thanks. I recreated the epicycle animation in Keynote, since that's what I use when I teach my classes.
The problem with eratosthenes calculation is how did he know the distance of the sun? The entire calculation is based on the assumption that the sun is so far away that all the sun rays will be parallel to each other. It's not really scientific to just assume that.
May i dubbed your video in Bangla?
Geocentric!
If you don't know that the heliocentric is the geocentric system from a different perspective then you should really not be trying to discuss this topic. (Psss the heliocentric system literally uses the measurements of the Geocentric systems. All actual real astronomers use the geocentric system because they live on earth). The Greeks probably gave up on the theory when they realized that if they're using the math and measurements from the Earth which makes up the geocentric perspective then it's exactly the same and there was no need to go through with the belief.
What about the south shaft. That's suposts be Isis. Don't talk bout that huh?
I love this video is very useful and enjoyable. Guess what the world is not flat, it just looks that way in a map flat plain. Our planets are spherical...It is clear in the forms being photographed.
ancient greek would not be called greek
They'd call it chatting.
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Aristarchus of Samos was correct at such an early time in history about Astronomy, it is amazing. We are a Sun centred universe and planets rotate around the sun. However, nobody believes him...According to what I read so far Ptolemy was wrong about a geocentric earth-centered universe. However, Ptolemy was correct about how our planets rotate.
Spherical not round. A cylinder is round. A cone is round. They know that the Earth was a Sphere, like a basket ball. Clauduius Ptolemy did not call the book we, in our time, call the Almagest, for him and his time it was called by another name, a more impotent name.
I was into this, until you went "south of the south pole" lol
sorry, very confusing for us simples
This was ok until you started talking about equinoxes, then retrograde and epicycle on the deferent. Brother ! This "explanation" is for someone who has studied astronomy in depth. If you want the general public to understand what the heck youre talking about, you have to define your words. Afterall, any body who can understand all this doesnt need to have it explained.
You may find it helpful to check out my previous videos in this series where I set up some of the topics referenced here: czcams.com/video/i2e0aRtwsCY/video.html
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Aphrodite = Afër Dita = Near Day / Dawn
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Ares = Arë / Ai Rrihet = Field / He Fights
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Demeter = Dimër = Winter
Hestia = Vjeshta = Autumn
Persephone = Porsi Prej Hëne = Just Like From The Moon
Triton = Dritë = Light
Thetis = Deti = Sea
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Kronos = Krijoj = Create
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Sicani = Si Hëna = Like The Moon
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