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What did the ancient Greeks think about the arrangement of the stars and planets?
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Most ancient civilizations believed that everything revolved around the earth and in most cases they believed the earth to be flat.
Also, it may have based around the religion of the civilization.
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How did ancient Greeks distinguish planets from stars?
Question: did Greeks distinguish planets from stars? Answer: Greeks distinguished planets from stars by studying them for a while and they just so happen to be really smart people. No offence to any other races , seriously because I'm not even Greek. i hope that helped
What did the ancient believe the arrangement of the stars mean?
they believed that myths had truth in them and used those myths that were true contained secrets of the stars and the universe
Why did the Greeks choose the name planet?
Because planet (πλανήτης) is Greek for Wanderer. As they viewed the stars, some "stars" seemed to wander. Sometimes in one direction, and then in the other (retrograde). They called these "stars" planets, although they didn't know then what they were.
What do modern astronomy and ancient astronomy have in common?
Many of the constellations are pretty much the same today as they were in ancient Greece. Pegasus, Hercules, and Orion are examples, as are the signs of the Zodiac. The planets have ancient Roman names. Very few of the stars have ancient European names, as astronomy of ancient times was kept alive by Arabs, who used their own names for the stars.
What did Greek mythology attempt to explain?
Greek mythology attemped to explain everything that the ancient Greeks couldn't understand. Remember that ancient Greeks didn't know the things we know today. Some examples are: Death Love Birth Good and evil Creation Sicknesses The stars Life ... And more
Who named the arrangement of the stars the 'constellations'?
The ancient Greeks
How did ancient Greeks distinguish planets from stars?
Question: did Greeks distinguish planets from stars? Answer: Greeks distinguished planets from stars by studying them for a while and they just so happen to be really smart people. No offence to any other races , seriously because I'm not even Greek. i hope that helped
What did people think about the arrangement of the stars and planets in ancient Greece?
they thought that the earth was flat and that you could swim right off the edge!
What is the Name of star around which the earth orbits?
Those are called "planets". The ancient Greeks distinguished "fixed stars" - which is what we nowadays simply call "stars"; and the moving stars, which in Greek is called "planets".A planet certainly looks like a star (a very bright star, in some cases), but nowadays they are not usually called "stars".
Why do planets wander?
The ancient Greeks called planets 'wanderers' because they appear to move through ther skies in relation to the 'fixed' stars. The apparent movement is because the planets are much closer to the Earth than the stars, and all planets rotate around the Sun, thus all move in relation to each other.
Is this statement true or falseThe word planet comes from the Greek word planetai, which means wanderer because the ancient Greeks thought of the planets as wandering through the stars?
true
What did ancient Greeks based science on?
stars earth and sun
Why did Greeks see only five stars?
Ah, I'm going to assume you mean the ancient Greeks, and have to say they saw many more than five stars. Modern Greeks might have a problem though; if they live in the heart of a well-lit city, the light can block out the stars. We call it light pollution. But the ancients saw only 5 wandering stars - called planets - because only 5 planets are bright enough to be seen reliably. (Uranus has been glimpsed throughout history, but never tracked.)
What did the ancient Greeks believe about the sun?
The ancient Greeks believed that every day, Apollo, the god of the sun, would ride a chariot a across the sky, pulling the sun behind him.
Who were the first people to study the stars?
The ancient Greeks. I know the Babylonians and Sumerians were before the Greeks. I think the Chinese studied the stars even earlier.
What did the greek call planets?
the Greeks called the planets wanderers
What causes constellation?
A constellation is caused by two things, the first of which is the arrangement of the stars (or planets) themselves in the sky when viewed from a particular perspective. Perspective is the second cause, that is, the human ability to see the arrangement of stars, then to see similarities with other objects in comparison to that arrangement.
