Showing posts with label Discoveries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Discoveries. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Top 10 Most Important Discoveries in Astronomy

The Discovery

It’s tough to wade through a couple thousand years of ancient Babylonian, Egyptian, Greek, Indian, Chinese, Mayan and Persian astronomical history to pick out the highlights, so I’ going to cheat and roll all of their achievements up into one entry. Maybe if their civilisations hadn’t died out they would have got a better spot on this list, but because they couldn’t keep their empires together the ancient world gets stuck with the number ten spot. That’ll learn

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