The ancient Greeks knew this shit. Which always impresses me -- screw arguing over geocentrism versus heliocentrism, I like hearing how the Greeks figured out the size of the Earth-Sun-Moon system*, modeling orbits, and measuring that the Earth wobbles like a top.
But it ruins my joke that I'm an Ophiuchus, the sign that thinks astrology is bullshit.
* Granted, with errors given they were working naked eye, but Aristarchus of Samos knew the Sun was bigger than the Earth.
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Date: 2011-01-20 02:07 pm (UTC)But it ruins my joke that I'm an Ophiuchus, the sign that thinks astrology is bullshit.
* Granted, with errors given they were working naked eye, but Aristarchus of Samos knew the Sun was bigger than the Earth.