astronomical phenomena in ancient greece

Pythagoras of Samos (Πυθαγόρας ο Σάμιος ) gives the name cosmos to the universe. ( Anaximander's Cosmos ) “ author of the first geometrical model of the world.” Charles Kahn Anaximander and the Origins of Greek CosmologyĬleostratus of Tenedos (Κλεόστρατος ο Τενέδιος), Octaetris (8 years period) to match the solar and lunar period, Constellations. “ The moon, he said, had a borrowed light, and borrowed it from the sun and the sun he affirmed to be not less than the earth, and the purest possible fire, D. 584 BC Gregorian Calendar Famous Eclipse )Īnaximander of Miletus (Αναξίμανδρος ο Μιλήσιος ) a student of Thales and according to Laertius the discoverer of the gnomon proposes that the Earth surface is cylindrical. Thales of Miletus (636-546) BC predicts a solar eclipse ( (28.5. Thales of Miletus (Θαλής ο Μιλήσιος ) observed that the so-called Big Dipper constellation never dips below the horizon in Greece, but it does when viewed from Egypt. (Herodotus describes later that the Greeks learned to use the Gnomon and Polos from the Egyptians and also the division of the day in 12 parts.) Pherekydes of Syros (Φερεκύδης ο Σύριος), the teacher of Pythagoras, performed astronomical measurements with a heliotropion device in the island of Syros.

In Honor: Asteroid or Minor Planet 5873 Archilochos 1989 SB3, discovered 1989 September 26 by E. Archilochus of Paros (Αρχίλοχος ο Πάριος) a Greek poet describes a solar eclipse

Astronomical phenomena in ancient greece