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URANOS : STARS, CONSTELLATIONS AND SKY LORE all publics – educators & pedagogues – researchers & passionate amateurs
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Updating on 29/08/2009
Astronomy in the Greeek, Hellenic
and Latin civilisations
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The Greek and Hellenic civilisation grecque bequeathed to us: * the developped conception of celestial sphere; * the formalisation into constellations with their mythology and some stars and planets names * a marvellous astral mythology
The Romans practised the Greek texts but traduced fex of them. They gave us nevertheless some star and planet names
Farnese Atlas, a Romand copy of an Greek sculpture of the 1st c. AD
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Files avialables on URANOS site
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Mesopotamian constellations taken up by Greek astronomy (in French) |