San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-01-07
THE PROGRESS OF ASTRONOMY.

Compiled from the Globe Democrat.
B. G. 5000. Jupiter known To the
Chaldeans as planet Some say
earlier.
BIC. 24i9. The Chinese Emperor
Chwenhio adopted as an epoch the
conjunction of Mercury, Mars, Jupi-
ter and Saturn.
b. G. 2234. The earliest as tronomi-
cal observations were made at Baby
lon, from the Tower of Belus.
B. q. 2l70. The great Pyramid cree
ted, presumably tor astronomical
purposes.
B. c. 2I69 The Emperor Chow
Kapg condemned the astronomers
Ho and Hi to death for failing to
announce an eclipse.
b. G. 1920. Arcturus, Orion, Pleia-
des and MazzarOth men ii Oned by job.
B. G. HOO. Astronomy was known
as an exact science to the Chinese at
this date; some say much earlier.
B. 9. 72l. The first lunar eclipse
observed by the Chaldeans at Baby
lon.
BIC. 72l, The first recorded lunar
eclipse occurred in this year, March
10, $40 p. m
BIC. 720. Lunar eclipses we're OBJ
served at Babylon; recorded by Pto.
lemy.
BIC. $40. Opacity of the moon and
causes of lunar eclipses taught by
Thales.
B. 6lO. A solar eclipse in terru p
ted q battle between the Modes and
Lydians.
B G. 600. Thales taught the theory
of the true form OF the earth and the
cause of lunar eclipses.
B. c. 600. A celestial chart made by
the Chsldeans; 1,460 stars correctly
described.
B. c. 600. TIL g Greek schools of as
tronomy founded by Thales, of Miles
tus.
B. G.. $50. The signs OF the zodiac
named aud positions assigned by
Anaximander.
BIC. 500 Pythagoras taught that
the snn was one of the twelve
spheres.
Be. 47S A great eclipse occurred
just as Xerxes was starting on his
Greek expedition
B G. 40. Pythagoras taught the
doctrine of celestial motions and be-
lieved in inhabitable stars.
b. @. 433. Mention introduced the
lunar solar cycle in lengthy treatises
on astronomy.
BIC, $50. Aristotle's concerning
the Heavens" and Autolycus' ION the
Motion of the Sphere" written.
B. G. 344. Hicetas, of Syracuse,
taught that the sun and stars were
motionless and that the earth moved
round them.
BIC. 1886. The operation of eclipses
calculated by Calippus, the Athr-
man..
B. 1923 Up to this date the Egyp.
tians had recorded 373 solar and $50
lunar eclipses.
B. G. 2Sl. The great poem OF Aratus
on Astronomy written, EN- bodying all
previous discoveries.
B. c. $50. The relative distances of
the sun and moon calculated by Arts
tarchus.
B.. 2l2. Archimedes observed the
solstices and made many important
discoveries.
B. g. 1888. Total solar eclipse OBJ
served at Rome; three days prayer
ordered.
BIC. l6S. Gallus, of Rome, predicts
ed lunar eclipse, which occurred on
time.
b. G. 100. Hippsrchus discovered
the motion of sun and moon and the
procession of the equlnoxes.
1900. Astronomy first taught In Eu
rope as q scieuce by the Moors of
Spain.
1858. The Alphonsine tables COL
lected in Spain by Alphonso x. of
CASTLE.
1884. A large comet appeared. It's
tail extended 1909.
1887 Nicephorus first accurately de-
scribed comet and conjectured its
nature.
1888. "The Black Hour" in Scot
land: total solar eclipse.
1900. Clocks first used in astronom-
jcal observations in Spain and Ger
many.
l543 "The Revolution of the Heav-
emily Bodies" published by Coperni-
Gus.
1875. Dante drew q meridian line on
the pavement of st. Petronius' Church,
b ologna.
1877. Tycho Brahe demonstrated
that comets are extraneOus to our at
mosphere.
1882 Great advances made in the
science by Tycho Brahe and other OBJ
servers.
1909. Calico constructed the first
telescope and began his observations.
BIC. 147. Hipparchus made cata.