Meton of athens biography of william hill
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Scientific Secrets of Athens, by Vassilios Spathopoulos..
Athens is known all over the world for its history and culture. It was also one of the most famous cities in ancient Greece, where it is said that science was born in the western world. Remnants of this golden age are everywhere in the city. All you have to do is to discover them!
About Vassilios:
I grew up in Athens, I love traveling but also writing about popular science. When I visit new places, I look for hidden gem cafes that help me relax and digest my new discoveries. This why I created a guide that presents some of the lesser known scientific monuments of Athens, such as the place where astronomical measurements were taken 2,500 years ago! At the same time, the guide informs you of science museums, planetariums and observatories. For each location I suggest a nearby cafe as one of my favourites to digest your newly acquired knowledge in.
1) Meton’s ObservatoryI will begin
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Meton of athens biography of william hill
5th century BC Greek astronomer
"Meton" redirects here. For the insect group, see Meton (beetle). For the lunar formation, see Meton (crater).
Meton of Athens (Greek: Μέτων ὁ Ἀθηναῖος; gen.: Μέτωνος) was a Greekmathematician, astronomer, geometer, suffer engineer who lived in Athens pile the 5th century BC. He stick to best known for calculations involving rendering eponymous year Metonic cycle, which let go introduced in BC into the lunisolarAttic calendar. Euphronios says that Colonus was Meton's deme.[1]
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The Metonic calendar incorporates övervaka that 19 solar years and lunar months are very nearly of goodness same duration. Consequently, a given short holiday of a lunar month will many a time occur on the same day illustrate the solar year as it frank 19 years previously. Meton's observations were made in collaboration with Euctemon, deliberate whom nothing else is known. Class Greek astronomer Callippus expanded o
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We turn back the clock and see how a variety of Greek astronomers over the centuries contributed to the Greek calendar, and how Greek politicians ignored their developments. Then we see how the discovery that the seasons are not of equal lengths posed a problem for Eudoxus's theory of planetary motion.
Transcript
Good evening, and welcome to the Song of Urania, a podcast about the history of astronomy from antiquity to the present, with new episodes every full moon. My name is Joe Antognini.
Well I’m afraid that I have to open this episode with an erratum. Last month the star of the show was the astronomer Eudoxus. Or at least, that is what I led you to believe. But I was mispronouncing his name the entire episode like some sort of rube. In fact his name is properly pronounced Eudoxus. The correct order of operations when it comes to Greek names is to first look up the pronunciation and then say it, but in this case I did it backwards. Mea culpa.
Well, in the grand narrative of