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Posidonius (Greek: Ποσειδώνιος, Poseidonios, meaning "of Poseidon") "of Apameia" (ὁ Ἀπαμεύς) or "of Rhodes" (ὁ Ῥόδιος) (c. 135 BCE – c. 51 BCE), was a GreekStoicphilosopher, politician, astronomer, geographer, historian and teacher native to Apamea, Syria.
He was acclaimed as the greatest polymath of his age. His vast body of work exists today only in fragments.
Writers such as Strabo and Seneca provide most of the information, from history, about his life.
Posidonius, nicknamed "the Athlete", was born to a Greek family in Apamea, a Hellenistic city on the river Orontes in northern Syria.
Posidonius completed his higher education in Athens, where he was a student of the aged Panaetius, the head of the Stoic school. But soon he came in conflict with the Stoic doctrines and was involved in heated debates with many other Stoic philosophers of the school. The incidents concerning Posidonius's conflict and final break up with the Stoics are mentioned by Galen in his book On the Doctrines of Plato and Hippocrates. Eventually Posidonius gave up Stoicism and turned to a different philosophical direction, this of Plato but mainly of Aristotle, remaining a faithful follower of Aristotelian doctrines until his death.
The Antikythera mechanism (/ˌæntᵻkᵻˈθɪərə/ ANT-i-ki-THEER-ə or /ˌæntᵻˈkɪθərə/ ANT-i-KITH-ə-rə) is an ancient analog computer designed to predict astronomical positions and eclipses for calendrical and astrological purposes, as well as the Olympiads, the cycles of the ancient Olympic Games.
Found housed in a 340 mm × 180 mm × 90 mm wooden box, the device is a complex clockwork mechanism composed of at least 30 meshing bronze gears. Its remains were found as 82 separate fragments, of which only seven contain any gears or significant inscriptions. The largest gear (clearly visible in Fragment A at right) is approximately 140 mm in diameter and originally had 223 teeth.
The artifact was recovered in 1900–1901 from the Antikythera shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera. Believed to have been designed and constructed by Greek scientists, the instrument has been dated either between 150 and 100 BC, or, according to a more recent view, at 205 BC.
After the knowledge of this technology was lost at some point in Antiquity, technological artifacts approaching its complexity and workmanship did not appear again until the development of mechanical astronomical clocks in Europe in the fourteenth century.
Posidonius "of Apameia" or "of Rhodes" , was a Greek Stoic philosopher, politician, astronomer, geographer, historian and teacher native to Apamea, Syria.He was acclaimed as the greatest polymath of his age.His vast body of work exists today only in fragments.Writers such as Strabo and Seneca provide most of the information, from history, about his life. ---Image-Copyright-and-Permission--- About the author(s): Sailko License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (CC BY 3.0) Author(s): Sailko (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Sailko) ---Image-Copyright-and-Permission--- This channel is dedicated to make Wikipedia, one of the biggest knowledge databases in the world available to people with limited vision. Article available under a Creative Commons license Image source in video
*Please Watch to the End ** Watch in HD and Full Screen Hey Guys ..............My apologies for being away so long. I've just been a little busy. Firstly, I am passing on some news about whats going on now as well as what will be happening in the near future. ....Okay, in this video I examine Posidonius Crater and what looks like structures that are being hidden by NASA. As always, have a look and give me your take. Thanks for looking and Share the video! Regards, Chris ...... As always, look for the picture links at the bottom of the description. Thanks for Watching! Best Regards, Chris.... IMAGE CREDIT GOES TO: ESA / NASA / JPL / University of Arizona / Caltech / Msss ** These pictures are made public to the people** Thanks for watching! If you guys like what you see, please SUBSC...
This is wide field realtime video of the sky, using a ZWO ASI178MMC camera. The targets are Perseus double cluster, M31 and some satellites. I used Sharpcap software. Gain was max (510), i used BIN2, 150 to 250ms exposure time, 3 frames stacking and the sensor temperature was -20°C.
Une vidéo d'un survol lunaire sur le cratère Posidonius (diamètre : 96 km, hauteur 2600 m). L'image de départ a été prise le 16/11/16 à 0h44 locale. Matériel utilisé : télescope de 625 mm avec une barlow 3 (focale 8220 mm), filtre infrarouge 685 nm, caméra QHY5-III 178MM. La Lune était à une distance de 353608 km et à une hauteur de 54°. Le géoréférencement à partir des données de la NASA a été fait avec le logiciel QGIS Wien et la vidéo avec SpacEyes3D Builder. L'image de départ est celle ci : http://www.webastro.net/upload/images/2382-1479299148.jpg Bon vol. Luc CATHALA
June 14 10pm, some clouds and turbulence in the way but wanted to test out my new 24mm EyePiece.
As part of an international team, Dr Tony Freeth has been a central figure in an extraordinary voyage of discovery: every new revelation has reinforced a sense of shock about this highly sophisticated ancient Greek astronomical calculating machine. It is one of the true wonders of the ancient world.
The Antikythera mechanism (main fragment) English: Main Antikythera mechanism fragment. The mechanism consists of a complex system of 32 wheels and plates with inscriptions relating to the signs of the zodiac and the months. The study of the fragments suggests that this was a kind of astrolabe used for marine navigation. The interpretation now generally accepted dates back to studies by Professor Derek de Solla Price, who was the first to suggest that the mechanism is a machine to calculate the solar and lunar calendar, that is to say, an ingenious machine to determine the time based on the movements of the sun and moon, their relationship (eclipses) and the movements of other stars and planets known at that time. The mechanism was probably built by an ingenious mechanic school Posidonius ...
The earliest known world maps date to classical antiquity, the oldest examples of the 6th to 5th centuries BC still based on the flat Earth paradigm.World maps assuming a spherical Earth first appear in the Hellenistic period.The developments of Greek geography during this time, notably by Eratosthenes and Posidonius culminated in the Roman era, with Ptolemy's world map , which would remain authoritative throughout the Middle Ages.Since Ptolemy, knowledge of the approximate size of the globe allowed cartographers to estimate the extent of their geographical knowledge, and to indicate parts of the globe known to exist but not yet explored as terra incognita. ---Image-Copyright-and-Permission--- License: Public domain ---Image-Copyright-and-Permission--- This channel is dedicated to make W...
using a canon lens I was checking on the speed and resolution of the speed of the little camera, it was very cloudy today (as usual) and I used a video recorder to get the video from the screen. this kind of camera is very good to do deep sky watching using a camera lens too.
Larry Becker's talk at STOICON '16 on on Posidonius' relevance to Stoic practice, held on October 15th 2016 in New York City
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Laura Knight-Jadczyk's series, The Secret History of the World, is one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken to provide a cogent, comprehensive account of humanity's true history and place in the cosmos. Following the great unifying vision of the Stoic Posidonius, Laura weaves together the study of history, mythology, religion, psychology and physics, revealing a view of the world that is both rational and breathtaking in its all-encompassing scope. This second volume, Comets and the Horns of Moses, (written in concert with several following volumes soon to be released) picks up the dangling threads of volume one with an analysis of the Biblical character of Moses -- his possible true history and nature -- and the cyclical nature of cosmic catastrophes in Earth's history. Laura ...
Stoicism was one of the three leading movements of Hellenistic philosophy. It was founded by Zeno of Citium in circa 300 BC. He was succeeded by the second head Cleanthes of Assos but its third head Chryssipus of Soli was its greatest exponent and most voluminous writer. Stoicism took its name from Stoa Poikile or painted porch in Athens where these philosophers taught. Stoicism viewed the world as permeated by rationality and divinely planned as the best possible organization of the matter. The middle phase of Stoicism was represented by Panaetius of Rhodes and Posidonius of Apamea who introduced it to the Roman world where it enjoyed a lasting effect through Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius and Seneca. For Stoics, ethics was placed in the context of an understanding of the world as a whole wit...
looking the moon
last nights moon, tryin gout my 3X barlow on my new ES 24mm 68.
Posidonio 17/07/11
Posidonio 15/05/11
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