Talk:Seven Seas

message: My apologies to User:Foobar. The ignoramus who deleted text he didn't understand was User:Foobaz. --Wetman
:Ignoramus? That sounds an awful lot like a personal attack. Copying text from other websites and pasting it into wikipedia is a copyright violation. I also cleaned up your prose and sectioned the article. I don't appreciate that you reverted my useful changes to the article along with those you disagreed with. Also, your most recent edit summary stated, "adding link to World Atlas website used but not credited by User:Foobaz + added quote". I had never seen that website before now, and i don't see why you think i used it. Also, the "quote" you added was another copyright-violating copy/paste job from the atlas site. foobaz·✐ 07:07, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: An ignoramus is a modest description. Apparently this overconfident junior-high-school student has never been required to quote a cited source, or enter a Reference or external link. The entry as I found it was not outstanding, to speak tactfully. We have a little problem here. --Wetman 09:00, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I too have a little problem, with your repeated personal attacks and your misleading edit summaries, such as "(See also Four Continents)" for a revert. But, the main reason i edited this page was to add the rest of the seas and my pretty picture, so i'll let you have your "metaphyical geographizings", "elaborate disquisitions", and "mirabile dictu". foobaz·✐ 16:32, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Removal of some text

message: I'm not completely sure, but aren't mirabile dictu, and the other's Latin? ... If so, where the the definitions? ... Mind you I was able to divine a meaning out of the text, but that is just conjecture. Equally as important is the flow ... majority of this text is quoted material, can we clean up the reading so that this is something other than an illegible entry in an unnamed but equally cryptic encycolopedia? While I wasn't thinking it was worth an entry, you've done enough work to convince me. -- Dbroadwell 05:41, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: "Mirabile dictu" seems to have disappeared, but while it's certainly Latin, it's also become incorporated into English. The phrase should be in most English dictionaries: it's certainly in Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. - Nunh-huh 05:18, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes that was some time and many edits ago, the article has improved significantly. Even so, the latin terminologies still need improvement. While one can infer the meaning of 'septem maria' as 'Seven Seas' from the article's context, it does need to be plainly stated. As such, the place for that definition has not made itself obvious in the article yet. -- Dbroadwell 07:32, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Latin 

message: Good job! Intrigue 16:43, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: What an excellent article!

message: It has long been lore among sailors that any “Old Salt” who had “sailed the Seven Seas” proved he had been on the old Clipper Ship Tea Route from China to England, which was the longest trade route under sail and which took the Clippers through the Banda Sea, the Celebes Sea, the Flores Sea, the Java Sea, the South China Sea, the Sulu Sea, and the Timor Sea.  Thus to traditional sailors, these are the Seven Seas.
Comments?--68.34.100.158 01:18, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: On 5 November 2006 someone edited the main article to say that the seven seas refers to seven small seas throughout the Dutch East Indies. But it didn't give the names of the seas. Do you think those are the same seven seas? - Shaheenjim (talk) 17:31, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Those seven seas are all near the Dutch East Indies.  So I decided they probably are the same, and added those seas to that section. - Shaheenjim (talk) 04:51, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

text: That part is referenced to a marketing website of a commercial organisation - I don't think that is a good source and there really ought to be some better sources out there if that was common usage of the term. -- Beardo (talk) 22:03, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Seven Seas and China Tea Routes 

message: This website:  from the Library of Congress says, "Other geographers state that the seven seas were the Mediterranean and Red Seas, Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf, China Sea, and the West and East African Seas."  Can anybody make sense of that?  I think there are multiple China Seas, and I don't know what it means by "the West and East African Seas." - Shaheenjim (talk) 16:57, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alternate definitions 

message: I corrected the misspelling of Muhammad and provided the link to its Wikipedia article. - Benjamin Franklin 98.249.252.218 (talk) 12:50, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Correct spelling of Muhammad and link 

message: I just added, The Mesopotamians were the first in the history of astronomy to keep records of the 7 moving objects in the heavens - the 7 Classical Planets/Seven Heavens - and they  made this connection to their 7 Seas<ref]citation needed</ref]. - Benjamin Franklin 98.249.252.218 (talk) 13:05, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ancient connection of the perceived '7 Seas' to the observed '7 Classical Planets'/'7 Heavens' 

message: The Medieval Europeans were very well aware of the Atlantic Ocean! - Benjamin Franklin 98.249.252.218 (talk) 13:21, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Medieval Europeans' "7 Seas" + 4 other Large Bodies of Water (Atlantic Ocean, Aegean Sea, Indian Ocean, North Sea) 

message: The ancients observed 7 moving objects in the heavens - the 7 Classical Planets/Seven Heavens - as well as the 4 lunar phases being a little over 7 days (~7.4 days) each. They then connected their different perceived "7 Seas" to the #7 coming from the heavens, as well as the 7 levels of the ziggurats, 7 Palms in the Egyptian Royal Cubits, 7 levels of the first Egyptian Step Pyramid, 7 Metals of Antiquity, 7 Vital Organs, Seven Wonders of the World, 7 lamps in the Hebrews' menorah, etc. Isaac Newton came along and connected his subjective Seven colors of the Spectrum with the Seven musical tones and the Seven days of the Week. Pope Gregory came up with the Seven Deadly Sins patterned after the 7 Classical Planets and the constant use of the #7 in the Bible. - Benjamin Franklin 98.249.252.218 (talk) 13:58, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  The ancients observed the 7 Classical Planets & 4 lunar phases of 7 days each and made symbolic connections to this sign from the gods 

message: There are rather more than seven seas in the world. Therefore it's unlikely that a scientist or navigator would ever need to use the phrase. And even more unlikely that anybody associates the phrase with seven actual seas. I would go further, and suggest that this term is nowadays confined to idiomatic or lyrical use, rather than factual or scientific. "To sail on the seven seas" is just a poetic way of saying "To do a lot of sailing" (as in the OMD song).Darorcilmir (talk) 22:37, 6 April 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Did you actually bother to read the article before posting this comment? 90.249.28.7 (talk) 17:57, 3 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Modern usage 

message: Perhaps refers to the Mediterranean, Tyrrhenian, Ionian, Adriatic, Aegean, Balearic, and Alboran Seas. 2600:8806:205:700:ECBD:1F95:7ABA:81ED (talk) 22:08, 16 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Phonetician or Venetian 

message: The seas shown on the picture do not fit to any of the lists in the text. Charlie11 (talk) 15:20, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture "Historic seven seas"