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Old October 12th 18, 11:30 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
Gerald Kelleher
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Default A more intimate astronomy

I see people who have no feeling for the old texts and mix them with science fantasy, one text is so old with themes that do not fade through the thousands of years that it isn't even Hebrew due to its astronomical references.. It told of the stars coming in season which is the more accurate description than the Sun moving through the constellations for it contains proof of the Earth's orbital motion as each star in turn appears to the right of the Sun or as a dawn appearance at specific times of the year or more accurately, specific positions in the Earth's orbit -

"Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons? Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?"

https://www.universetoday.com/wp-con...Dec27-2013.jpg

Sometimes people get it without even knowing that it is new and completes a picture between our planet and those nearest the Sun along with proof of the Earth's orbital motion using more or less the same perspectives.