CLST 214 Study Guide - Final Guide: Ancient Greek Astronomy, Deferent And Epicycle, Circle Centre

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 214
• Professor: Daryn Lehoux

Document Summary

Clst 214: week 6 lect 3 (oct 20) Mercury, moon: order of influence: saturn, sun, moon, mars, mercury, jupiter, venus, planets and stars beam down some sort of influence - closely tied to ancient physics. Influences personality and your fate different sky: time is a variability. Jupiter and mars are together in the house of children and reinforce each other. Great regal authority: trine: equilateral triangle connecting intervals of 4 zodiac signs, these planets can influence each other if in this position. Clst 214: week 7 lect 1 (oct 24) The babylonians do not care about what the planets are doing on a day-to-day basis. All they care about is when the planet reaches the next station. No idea what they thought the shape of the earth is. They do is give a powerful mathematics - such a different project from the greek project. Greeks wanted to know what physically caused the planets to go direct and retrograde motion.