NATS 1745 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Star Catalogue, Islamic Calendar, Almagest
3 Jan 2018
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This period of time was called the dark ages". In medieval europe, scholars didn"t know much about the sky. 1 full year is defined by the passing of 12 passing crescents. But labeled the bright star on his far called the rigel. The talamese catalogue rigel is beta orioness (second brightest star in orion): when the arabic star catalogue came into europe, the latin scholars adopted western pronunciations of the arabic star names (the ones we use today for. Majority of the stars. i. e. alpha century greek name of our nearest star. Part 2: renaissance astronomy the knowledge of the ancient greeks got into the hands to the christian scholars via the. Arabic translations and resulted in christian scholars being able to continue from where the ancient greeks left off: scholars in western europe were being bombarded w/ new ideas (books like the. So our observations seem to suggest that earth is fixed.
