Re: VMs: Re: Man in the Moon

[<osjardim@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Rafal,

You said:

But anyway - I just wanted to point out that all European
astrology was geocentric-tropical until mid-20th c.

You are absolutely right. I must apologize for wrong assertion 
regarding use of heliocentric astrology system in Europe in middle age.

Searchig " heliocentric" using vivissimo document clustering, I found 
at
http://www.spirasolaris.ca/sbb2c.html
a paper title BABYLONIAN PLANETARY THEORY AND THE HELIOCENTRIC CONCEPT 
written by  John N. Harris, M.A.(CMNS),  where he concludes, after 
reasonable deep considerations:

" Given the undoubted awareness of accurate sidereal periods for the 
superior planets, implicit sidereal periods for the inferior planets, 
accurate sidereal, synodic, draconic, and anomalistic months, and 
varying velocity functions for the planets, sun, and moon - all readily 
understood in terms of a cohesive framework - it seems reasonable to 
conclude that the Babylonians almost certainly possessed a 
well-developed, fictive heliocentric planetary model by at least 250 
BCE, and quite possibly much earlier. "

Best Regards

Osmar Jardim
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