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What does a stars Greek letter designation tell us that its ancient Arabic name?
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The Greek letter designation is a Greek letter followed but the possessive form of the constellation name (for example, alpha-Orionus). In most cases (Ursa Major being a notable exception), the brightest star in a constellation designated with the Greek letter alpha, the second-brightest with the Greek letter beta, and so on. Thus the Greek letter designation gives information about both relative brightness and location. There is no connection between the Greek letter designation and ancient Arabic names.
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What does a star Greek letter designation tell you that its ancient Arabic name doesn't?
The first letters of the Greek alphabet are usually given to the brightest stars in the constellation.
What is a Bayer designation?
A Bayer designation is a stellar designation in which a specific star is identified by a Greek letter, followed by the genitive form of its parent constellation's Latin name.
What are the differences between Hebrew and Greek science?
There is no such designation as "Hebrew science". Ancient Israelites didn't pursue science in the way that the Ancient Greeks did.
What resulted from Muslim scholars translating Greek text into Arabic?
Muslims that translated ancient Greek text into Arabic helped to preserve the ancient texts of many scholars. For example, the works of Aristotle and Euclid were available to later Europeans via Latin translations of the Arabic translations of the original Greek. The western Renaissance as we know it would not have happened if the Arabic intermediary text didn't exist.
How does the greek letter designation of a star give you clues to its location and brightness?
The Greek letter designation of a star gives its relative brightness compared to other stars in the same constellation. For example, Alpha Canis Majoris (Sirius) is the brightest star in the constellation Canis Major.
What ancient greek words begin with the letter g?
There aren't any. The sound didn't exist in ancient Greek, and there was no letter in the alphabet to represent it. In ancient Latin, the letter 'v' represented the sound of English 'w'. Certain archaic dialects of Greek had the 'w' sound, and wrote it with a letter known as "digamma". But both the sound and the letter disappeared before the classical period of the language.
What are ancient Greek words that start with letter a?
alpha
What ancient Greek word starts with the letter I?
Lambda.
Which country does the word 'alphabet' originate from?
Alphabet is Ancient Greek. It comes from the Greek word "Alphabetos". Alpha is the Greek letter for A. Beta is the Greek letter for B.
What Greek word starts with the letter k?
'Khilioi (χίλιοι)' is Ancient Greek for 'thousand'
How do you write jenniffer in the ancient greek alphabet?
ΣΕΝΝΙΦΕΡ Please note, however, that there is no "J" in the ancient greek alphabet, so it was replaced with the letter it would have been in ancient greek; "Sigma" or "S".
21st letter of the greek alphabet?
The seventh letter of the greek alphabet is eta In modern Greek its η,Η (Eta) In ancient Greek it was ζ,Ζ (Zeta). That is because the ancient 6, which was the ''στ,ΣΤ'' is no longer used.
