47 of the 48 constellations he listed in his "Almagest" around 150 B.C. are still recognized
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Enoch's Constellations Testify of Christ - John P. Pratt Home Page  Aug 23, 2006 ... The 48 constellation figures from Enoch depict the gospel of Jesus Christ. ... Ptolemy listed 48, and the Persians a few hundred years later also list 48. ... was to discover this set and to recognize their meaning from a Christian perspective. ... the correct list when he presided there with Cyrus around 550 BC.
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Constellation - Wikipedia  The current list of 88 constellations recognized by the International Astronomical Union since 1922 is based on the 48 listed by Ptolemy in his Almagest in the...
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Modern Constellations - Constellation History  Ptolemy made his own celestial observations from about 120-150 A.D. but also used historical data. ... his own Ptolemy certainly got part, and perhaps most, from Hipparchus, a 2nd century B.C. Greek astronomer. The 48 constellations listed in Ptolemy's Almagest are: ... Only two of those constellations are still recognized.
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Ian Ridpath's Star Tales  The constellation system that we use today has grown from a list of 48 constellations published around AD 150 by the Greek scientist Ptolemy in an influential book called the Almagest. ... Ptolemy did not invent the constellations that he listed. ... he produced his poetic version of the Phaenomena of Eudoxus around 275 BC.
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Mercator Globes Online Exhibit - Harvard Map Collection  These globes were produced while Mercator was in Louvain where he had lived since entering the ... The list of 50 constellation names used by Mercator on the globe. The list ... These include 47 of the 48 described by Ptolemy, Coma Berenices, and 40 others. ... Ptolemy listed 1,022 stars in his catalogue in the Almagest.
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The History of Astrometry  Sep 17, 2012 ... of these star motions was first reported by Edmond Halley in 1718. Following Halley's ... time gives what astronomers call the star's 'proper motion'. ... sky taken a few years apart, has proved to be a bountiful way of sifting out potentially ..... The British Parliament offered a prize of 20 000, a fortune of some.
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The Golden Age of Celestial Cartography - Trudy E. Bell  the classical Greeks, accurately locating a heavenly body in the sky using their skill with spherical .... Piccolomini (1508-1578) published the first star atlas, De Le Stelle Fisse. ... was Johann Bayer (1572-1625), a Bavarian lawyer and amateur astronomer, ... (the first of its kind), Hevelius' work led to his famous celestial atlas,...
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Constellations: Ursa Major - Windows to the Universe
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CHAPTER - 5 Lehi Was Not Alone - Book of Mormon Evidences ...  Sep 21, 2009 ... The book helped support some claims made in the Book of Mormon, although I am ... that all of these people reached the New World years before Columbus. ... By 600 B.C., the Phoenicians were building ships that could carry 50 to ... Around 450 B.C., the Carthaginian king, Hanno, sailed with a fleet of 60...
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What Every Mormon Should Know About Astronomy  May 12, 2000 ... 6. Hebrew Calendar. 7. Planet Time Reckoning. 8. Signs of Second Coming ... circumstances so that that particular star would appear in that part of the earth's sky on .... A ram breaks the bands of death (Mosiah 15:20,23), the lion .... Those stars are the twelve constellations of the zodiac, and they serve as...
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J! Archive - Show #3812, aired 2001-03-13  When you cast your eyes on this constellation, know that half of it may represent Castor .... A generous Turk may give you the gomlek, this, off his arka...
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Jeopary Questions page 1752 - SHORT FICTION - TriviaBistro.com  BLASTS FROM THE PAST: A product of about 20,000 B.C., you'll find the art seen here in this country (cave drawings)  HITS OF THE '40s: Completes the title...
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Astronomical naming conventions - Wikipedia  The Bayer designations of about 1,500 brightest stars were first published in 1603. ... alphabet, followed by the Latin name of its parent constellation. The Bayer designation uses the possessive form of a constellation's name, ... This led to a third iteration, where numeric superscripts were...
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Hipparchus  The year 127 BC is usually cited as the last date known for his actual work, and a French ... It is difficult always to determine to which of them credit is due. ... These two systems were based on the erroneous belief that all celestial movement ... Hipparchus' catalog, completed in 129 BC, listed about 850 stars (not 1,080 as is...
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Seven Sisters Star Cluster Controversy Solved  National ...  Aug 28, 2014 ... ... groupings of thousands of similarly aged stars, litter the galaxy. ... Called parallax, the technique is the most accurate ... This sky chart shows the Taurus constellation and the Pleiades star ... After local midnight, face the eastern sky and you'll find the constellation Taurus, the Bull, charging up the horizon.
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Ptolemy (print-only)  One of the most influential Greek astronomers and geographers of his time, ... The Almagest is the earliest of Ptolemy's works and gives in detail the ... second century up to the late Renaissance, this work determined astronomy as a science. .... a position to apply these to obtain a theory of eclipses which he does in Book 6.
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Hellenistic Alexandria: The Museum and the Library - Aladdin's ...  240 B.C.), who classified the 120,000 works of prose and poetry in the library ... Renowned as a mathematician, astronomer, and geographer, he also made a study ... distance between the two places was one-fiftieth of the earth's circumference. ..... the Almagest, the most comprehensive work on astronomy that has survived...
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History of cartography - Wikipedia  Cartography, or mapmaking, has been an integral part of the human history for a long time, ... The earliest known maps are of the stars, not the earth. ... The Cuevas de El Castillo in Spain contain a dot map of the Corona Borealis constellation dating from 12,000 .... Similar to his predecessors, Herodotus also made mistakes.
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Sagittarius (constellation) - Wikipedia  Sagittarius is one of the constellations of the zodiac. It is one of the 48 constellations listed by ... Sagittarius is commonly represented as a centaur pulling-back a bow. ... area of the archer, are the bright star (2.59 magnitude) Zeta Sagittarii ( Sgr), .... Chiron, the son of Philyra and Saturn and tutor to Jason, who was said to...
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Ancient Greek astronomy - Wikipedia  Greek astronomy is astronomy written in the Greek language in classical antiquity. Greek ... 546 BC) described a cylindrical earth suspended in the center of the cosmos, ... Callippus, a Greek astronomer of the 4th century, added seven spheres to ... Ptolemy's works on astronomy and astrology include the Almagest, the...
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Observing the Sky from 30S/Selected areas of sky - Wikibooks ...  The Pleiades cluster, also known as the Seven Sisters of Messier 45, is the brightest ... The cluster contains over 1,000 statistically confirmed members, although this ... The components of the Hyades have an average age of 625 million years; some of ... an association of about 2,000 stars within a diameter of 20 light years.