29 Hilarious Greek Astronomy Puns

Can't get enough of these beautiful brass instruments, here is a greek D I O P T R A, for measuring angles in astronomy and survey, a more accurate version of the groma.

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👤︎ u/NoCommunication7

📅︎ Apr 01 2021

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Astronomy or Greek Mythology themed middle names?

I am interested in middle names that sound good with the name Kassie. Any suggestions that sound nice when spoken in full would be very helpful.

I am interested in any astronomy/constellation/star names or greek mythology names. My family is Greek so any greek names would be nice.

Thanks!

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👤︎ u/lightscameraa

📅︎ Nov 06 2020

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TIL: Iraq used to be the center of the world for knowledge in the Middle Ages. Scholars from all backgrounds came together to translate Greek works into languages such as Latin, Arabic, and Persian. Algebra, Geometry, Astronomy, and Medicine were some of the fields that were refined. reddit.com/r/todayilearne…

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👤︎ u/unremovable

📅︎ Dec 28 2020

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[todayilearned] TIL: Iraq used to be the center of the world for knowledge in the Middle Ages. Scholars from all backgrounds came together to translate Greek works into languages such as Latin, Arabic, and Persian. Algebra, Geometry, Astronomy, and Medicine were some of the fields that were refined. 1001inventions.com/featur…

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👤︎ u/Know_Your_Shit_v2

📅︎ Dec 28 2020

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TIL The sphericity of the Earth was established by Greek astronomy in the 3rd century BC, and the earliest terrestrial globe appeared from that period. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glo…

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👤︎ u/Breeze_in_the_Trees

📅︎ Oct 21 2019

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Students of Ancient Greek Astronomy

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👤︎ u/Social_Yoshi

📅︎ May 19 2019

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Four Discoveries of Ancient Greek Astronomy That Still Baffle Experts ancient-origins.net/news-…

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👤︎ u/OB1_kenobi

📅︎ Apr 27 2020

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I wish the 7th planet from the Sun in our Solar System was called Urania, after the Greek Goddess of Astronomy, instead of Uranus.

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👤︎ u/Cetology101

📅︎ Jan 27 2020

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Four Discoveries of Ancient Greek Astronomy That Still Baffle Experts ancient-origins.net/news-…

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👤︎ u/OB1_kenobi

📅︎ Apr 27 2020

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Muses were goddesses in Greek mythology who inspired and gave knowledge. There were 9 Muses. They were the embodiments and sponsors to music, epics, history, poetry, tragedy, hymns, dance, comedy and astronomy respectively. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mus…

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👤︎ u/userjoex

📅︎ Aug 08 2018

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Know Nonsense Trivia Podcast 🧠🎧 Episode 71 - "Murder Adjacent" (Quiz topics include Extinct Animals, Academy Awards, U.S. Presidents, State Birds, Astronomy, Cats & Literature, Greek Islands and more! Full quiz in comments.) knownonsense.fireside.fm/…

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👤︎ u/KnowNonsenseTrivia

📅︎ Nov 11 2019

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[Round 53919] This graph is somehow related to astronomy. Suggest an appropriate title for this graph that would inform a view as to what the Greek letters, blue bars, and grey bars represent.

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👤︎ u/quatrevingtneuf

📅︎ Oct 22 2018

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The Gupta Empire saw significant development in mathematics and astronomy. Is it possible that this mathematical tradition had roots going back to the Indo-Greek kingdoms? If not, have other significant influences been postulated?

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👤︎ u/lcnielsen

📅︎ Dec 05 2018

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Two Greek scholars butting heads in the Renaissance and the consequences for astronomy thonyc.wordpress.com/2018…

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👤︎ u/Qwill2

📅︎ Oct 23 2018

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Researchers Decipher Antikythera Mechanism Text—They've read most of the tiny letters. It does not tell how to use the device, but is more like a descriptive label. The artifact is from a 1st-century BC shipwreck off a Greek island. “It’s like a textbook of astronomy as it was understood then.” cbc.ca/news/technology/an…

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👤︎ u/anutensil

📅︎ Jun 11 2016

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Ancient Greeks in astronomy youtu.be/m-PwpS1dzEE

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👤︎ u/sci09

📅︎ Aug 25 2018

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TIL in 500 B.C., famous Greek philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras of Samos founded a semireligious school whose motto was "Everything is number". Their studies were called "mathema" (meaning "what is learned") and consisted of music, astronomy, geometry and arithmetic. primes.utm.edu/glossary/x…

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👤︎ u/dustofoblivion123

📅︎ Apr 15 2017

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What does the Antikythera mechanism show us about the level of Greek science like astronomy and technology that we didn't know before?

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👤︎ u/eag97a

📅︎ Jul 01 2017

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The paradigm of a spherical Earth was developed in Greek astronomy, beginning with Pythagoras (6th century BC), although most Pre-Socratics retained the flat Earth model. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fla…

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👤︎ u/nsfwdreamer

📅︎ Nov 01 2012

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Researchers Decipher Antikythera Mechanism Text—They've read most of the tiny letters. It does not tell how to use the device, but is more like a descriptive label. The artifact is from a 1st-century BC shipwreck off a Greek island. “It’s like a textbook of astronomy as it was understood then.” cbc.ca/news/technology/an…

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👤︎ u/anutensil

📅︎ Jun 11 2016

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A Decade Of Work Has Decoded This Ancient Greek Astronomy 'Computer' iflscience.com/space/a-de…

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👤︎ u/butterflytaxidermy

📅︎ Jun 14 2016

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Researchers Decipher Antikythera Mechanism Text—They've read most of the tiny letters. It does not tell how to use the device, but is more like a descriptive label. The artifact is from a 1st-century BC shipwreck off a Greek island. “It’s like a textbook of astronomy as it was understood then.” cbc.ca/news/technology/an…

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👤︎ u/anutensil

📅︎ Jun 11 2016

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Researchers Decipher Antikythera Mechanism Text—They've read most of the tiny letters. It does not tell how to use the device, but is more like a descriptive label. The artifact is from a 1st-century BC shipwreck off a Greek island. “It’s like a textbook of astronomy as it was understood then.” cbc.ca/news/technology/an…

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👤︎ u/anutensil

📅︎ Jun 11 2016

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When did sciences like chemistry and astronomy start to become divorced from some of their roots in theology and greek/neoplatonic philosophy? Why then?

A lot of early assumptions in science that don't hold up as well today seem to be based on theology or classical philosophy. After enough discoveries like those of Galileo, was there ever a point where a consensus was reached to abandon these sorts of premises in science altogether?

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👤︎ u/Deivore

📅︎ Aug 27 2016

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Researchers Decipher Antikythera Mechanism Text—They've read most of the tiny letters. It does not tell how to use the device, but is more like a descriptive label. The artifact is from a 1st-century BC shipwreck off a Greek island. “It’s like a textbook of astronomy as it was understood then.”

This is an automatic summary, original reduced by 80%.

> For over a century since its discovery in an ancient shipwreck, the exact function of the Antikythera Mechanism - named after the southern Greek island off which it was found - was a tantalizing puzzle.

> After more than a decade's efforts using cutting-edge scanning equipment, an international team of scientists has now read about 3,500 characters of explanatory text - a quarter of the original - in the innards of the 2,100-year-old remains.

> "Now we have texts that you can actually read as ancient Greek, what we had before was like something on the radio with a lot of static," said team member Alexander Jones, a professor of the history of ancient science at New York University.

> The team says the mechanism was a calendar of the sun and the moon that showed the phases of the moon, the position of the sun and the moon in the zodiac, the position of the planets, and predicted eclipses.

> A diver with a metal detector holds a copper ship's fitting next to a vase at the site of the Antikythera wreck off the island of Antikythera in southern Greece, where the mechanism's fragments were raised in 1901.

> "Perhaps, at some point, our reading may be fleshed out by sections retrieved from the sea," said team member Yanis Bitsakis, speaking behind a possible reconstruction of the device at a news conference on June 9.

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