A Nation That Has Been Able To Calculate The Ration Of Stars To Fit Planting Since A Long Time Ago
YOGYAKARTA - In many ancient civilizations before masehi, stars have an important role and a high position. People in the past believed the stars in the sky had an influence on their life on earth.
One of them is to determine the right season in farming. In this article, we will review the nation that has been able to calculate the constellation for planting crops.
They believe these stars are a pattern that is currently known as constellations or constellations of stars that live in certain areas of the sky. Stars have long been a guideline for fishermen when at sea and are often used for farmers to see when they start farming.
Quoted from the book Exploring Stars, Galaxies, and the Universe (2008) written by Gunawan Admiranto, in ancient times, humans had divided the sky into several regions of star configuration. Because humans at that time lived during the mythology era, their minds considered the constellations of stars or constellations to be similar to the shapes present in their mythology.
Therefore, at this time we know the constellations of Orion, Andromeda, Aquarius, Sagittarius, and others. The names of the raci are the names that exist in Greek mythology. In fact, from a note written on the nail writing possessed by the civilization of the river valley, in the year around 4,000 BC, people from that time already knew the constellations Leo, Taurus, and Scorpio. Notes about constellations in ancient Greek times can be found in literary works entitledus, around 9th century BC and the work of Aritah around the 3rd century BC.
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The Sumerian nation, which is in Mesopotamia (now Iraq), became one of the first nations to record and identify stars. then the research of the Sumerian nation was continued by the Babylonian nation and created the first zodiacal wheel.
The Babylonian and Greek nation subsequently observed constellations in the sky that are always passed by planets and the sun or exist in the field of ecliptics. They also named these constellations zodiacal or circumstellar circles. They also divided this ecliptic region into 12 because the planets and sun existed in one zodiacal for one month. Records regarding this constellation can be found in the book by Ptomeeus, Almagest, in which 48 constellations were mentioned at that time.
Since 1928, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) has officially announced 88 constellations as well as its racial boundaries to avoid any 'dispute' between one constellation and another. The mapping of the sky like this is useful for determining the way' of stars, galaxies, and other celestial objects so that the work of astronomers in astronomy research becomes easier.
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