Questions Are Curious Things
Recently my daughter informed me that she was enrolling in some additional courses to complete her degree and get a teaching certification. She stated that these courses were necessary, and that she would have no problem doing this while also working as the computer networking administrator for the university.
One of her first courses was in Philosophy, followed by Astronomy. Curiously enough they did relate -- both dealt with Ancient Greeks and Romans. I did a little research and found that there were many questions that my research found no direct answer to. Because of my nit-picking mind, each question only lead to another question ... for instance:
- Who named the Constellations and How did they do It?
- How could the Roman, Ptolemy of Alexandria, who grouped 1022 stars into 48 constellations during the 2nd century A.D. have connected all those dots in the sky when the telescope lens strong enough to see the moons of Jupiter was not invented until Galileo GALILEI, who lived between Pisa 1564 - Arcetri, Florence 1642?
- In her philosophy class, she studied Plato and Socrates. Socrates was executed for questioning the existance of the 12 Gods of Olympus. Who was the first to determined that there were 12 Gods?
- Who determined the shape of the Constellations and related the shape and location of the connecting stars to which individual God, Sub-God or animal?
Having been born in a small town that was named after one of the Gods, I decided to go star gazing myself and find out more. Starting at Lake Orion, Michigan, I turned on my Astral Transmigration abilities and started out to find Orion, the Hunter....
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