The solely other astronomer from antiquity known by name who is known to have supported Aristarchus’ heliocentric mannequin was Seleucus of Seleucia (b. a hundred ninety BC), a Hellenistic astronomer who flourished a century after Aristarchus in the Seleucid empire. Seleucus was a proponent of the heliocentric system of Aristarchus. Seleucus might have proved the heliocentric principle by figuring out the constants of a geometrical model for the heliocentric concept and creating methods to compute planetary positions using this mannequin.

It was the place where all events on Earth were determined by the gods, and their selections were irrevocable. The gulf between the gods and people could not have been higher. The evolution of Jewish cosmography in the course of the Second Temple Period adopted developments in Hellenistic astronomy. The Egyptian universe was substantially similar to the Babylonian universe; it was pictured as an oblong box with a north-south orientation … Read More