Ancient Civilisations that Studied Astronomy
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- In this video we’ll discuss some ancient civilizations that have brought significant impacts in our understanding of modern astronomy.
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:08 Arab
1:58 Babylonia
3:18 China
4:23 Egypt
5:23 Greece
6:29 India
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1. #Arab civilisation
During the medieval period, scientists in the islamic world had made many contributions to astronomy. They updated the methods for measuring the movement of celestial bodies, and continued to develop models of the universe. Between the 8th and 10th century, Baghdad was a major centre for astronomy. During this time, scientists translated studies in Sanskrit, Greek and Pahlavi into Arabic for the first time.
By taking advantage of existing research, the medieval astronomers learned the methods to track the position of celestial objects. And at the time they were: the sun, the moon, and the five known planets. Since the islamic calendar is a lunar calendar, Arabic researchers learned about the passage of the sun and the moon in the sky.
2. Ancient #Babylonia
Their biggest accomplishment was undoubtedly this! The design and creation of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon. But not only that, they also made major contributions in other fields. Astronomy had an important influence in Babylonian culture in which they developed a new empirical approach to science. Some scholars refer to it as the first scientific revolution in astronomy, as this way was later adopted and refined by the Greeks.
Because most of their studies are in the form of clay tablets, there are not many resources left from the Babylonian era that we could find today. But, according to a newly translated tablet, ancient Babylonian astronomers were the first to use a modern method, to track the path of Jupiter. Here’s how they did it.
Babylonian astronomers plotted a 60-day portion of Jupiter’s path across the sky on a graph, with time plotted on one axis and velocity on the other axis. So what is velocity multiplied by time? Exactly a distance. So the final figure that they got looked like a trapezoid, and the area under that curvature is the total distance that Jupiter travelled in 60 days.
3. Ancient China
With their flourishing history, ancient China also made important contributions to astronomy. They started observing stars and named them. A record of which has been found on bones, buried in the ground.
While the European continent experienced the Dark Ages, the thriving civilization in China, as well as those in Arabia and India, achieved major advances in science, astronomy and medicine. Chinese astronomers recorded 1600 observations, both solar and lunar eclipses from 750 BC.
We all might already be familiar with the first observation of Jupiter, this one by Galileo. But according to a recent paper, an ancient Chinese astronomer named Gan De, said.. “there was a small pink star beside the planet Jupiter. We, therefore, conclude that this is a satellite of Jupiter.” It is evident that Gan De had already seen satellites of Jupiter with his naked eyes. They knew about them 2000 years prior to Galileo.
4. Ancient #Egypt
Just like the other civilizations, the Egyptians studied the night sky by taking measurements from the stars. It was to accurately align their pyramids and sun temples with the earth's four cardinal points. A great example is the Pyramid of Giza. Ancient Egyptians built huge obelisks, which probably also served as simple clocks. At night, people could estimate the time by observing the moon, or by observing the constellations.
The origins of our modern clocks can be traced back to ancient Egypt, 4000 years ago. They divided daytime and night time in 12 equal parts, which is how we got 12 hours for am and pm By about 1500 BC, Egyptians had abandoned star clocks in favor of clocks that measure time by the flow of water.
These water clocks had the advantage of working even when the sky was cloudy. Eventually these water clocks were adopted by many other cultures for time-keeping.
5. Ancient Greece
The development of astronomy by the Greek and specifically hellenistic astronomers, is considered to be a major phase. Greece gradually rose as a power around 800 B.C. It is strategically located at a crossroad for travellers, merchants, and armies. So ancient Greece was a centre of diverse ideas, brought together by many cultures.
The Greeks used mathematics to prove their predictions, and they didn’t only rely on supernatural explanations. One of their most important models was the geocentric model of the universe, which basically means that a spherical Earth was at the centre. - ภาพยนตร์และแอนิเมชัน
There are so many things that I want to add here. From getting the date of the rig vedas and stating that Greeks influenced astronomy in India. But what I am convinced with now is that major corrections need to be made in the way people look at the contributions of ancient India to how the world works today. Knowledge always went outwards from India. When Chinese civilization hadn’t even started we had major centers and cities. Age of the vedas is way older and the knowledge in them is vast. Concepts like gravity was known way before anyone in western countries even thought of it. And yes one last thing that I want to add is all these other civilizations you have spoken of took interpretations and translations from Indian texts all throughout history.
Exactly
Very true. @ Bee please do thorough research before making any content. You are undermining Ancient Indians massive contribution to Maths and Science.
You didn't counted the number of book and research paper burnt in takshashila ,nalanda,etc University
Yes, Indian sciences had actually discovered Atoms and Weapons way before any other civilization. Ancient records of china have observed heavy bombardments from the south during the time of mahabharata, those bombardments parallel to the power of Atom Bombs as we know today. Those bombs were what they called, Bramhastras back then.
I agree with you! Vedas were written way before any other civilization wrote any scripts or books about astronomy. Way before 1600BC.
very nice video...but i have one doubt....if the starting point of Indian astronomy was in rig veda (around 1500 bc) then how was it influenced by the greeks in 4 century bc??
Exactly
But only we indians know what the fact is
Hi bro you know the answer !
It's obvious
Bro, Rig veda is much older than 1500BC maybe 2k-3k yrs more older than you said,
apne desh mein toh astronomy 10,000BC + se chalte arahi hai :)
Surya Siddhanta, vedanga jyotisha are one of the oldest astronomy books
Saraswati river mentioned in Rig Veda existed at least 8000 years. Moreover, vedas are called "Shruti" which were passed orally before we started learning how to write.
So, Information of Vedas are much much more older, no evidence so far but they are very old.
Bro western countries wud nver accept dis... Even the Indus valley civilisation was the first urban civilisation of dis world....
Correction : Rig veda is far more oldest than any civilization. The world was influenced by the indian philosopher and ancient text book. We are still following many traditions that are linked to astronomical theory.
The Rigveda is one of the oldest sacred texts of Hinduism, and scholars generally date its composition to between 1500 BCE and 1200 BCE. The exact date of the Rigveda's composition is difficult to determine with precision because it was an oral tradition for many centuries before it was written down.
There is no evidence to suggest that the Rigveda is 3000 BCE old or that it was composed near the Swaraswati river. The Swaraswati river, which is mentioned in the Rigveda, is believed to have dried up around 2000 BCE, which would place the composition of the Rigveda prior to this time. However, this is still much later than 3000 BCE
This was a nice video but I would like to point out that rigveda was written way before any civilization was in existance hence it was not influenced by any civilisation. Also there were sevral texts where very accurate astronomy measurements were quoted. For example in Shreemadbhagwat Geeta speed of light was very accurately mentioned. There are much more evidence like this in other texts too.
Who told you that?
No it wasn't , it was the Sumerian script. Too bad the USA dropped bombs all over the area for weapons of mass destruction that were never found....
The speed of LIGHT ?????🤣
Are you sure about what u talked about Indian civilization? Indian civilization is way more older than Greek.
But bro I love your videos. The quality u ensure for every videos and the quality of your presentation are mind blowing. I always love to share your videos with my friends ❤️.
Please make sure about Indian civilization*
Agree 100% i was also surprised for his comment...
Saraswati river mentioned in Rig Veda existed at least 8000 years. Moreover, vedas are called "Shruti" which were passed orally before we started learning how to write.
So, Information of Vedas are much much more older, no evidence so far but they are very old.
@@Anonymous-hp1tg You are sure 8k not 80k? LOL.
@@chester1234ification yes... It may be older than 80k... Don't make a fool of yourself dumbo...go n learn about the India....india was everythin back then... All people of this world were Hindus... No religion n civilisation existed except Hindu n Hinduism
@@Anonymous-hp1tg The Rigveda is one of the oldest sacred texts of Hinduism, and scholars generally date its composition to between 1500 BCE and 1200 BCE. The exact date of the Rigveda's composition is difficult to determine with precision because it was an oral tradition for many centuries before it was written down.
There is no evidence to suggest that the Rigveda is 3000 BCE old or that it was composed near the Swaraswati river. The Swaraswati river, which is mentioned in the Rigveda, is believed to have dried up around 2000 BCE, which would place the composition of the Rigveda prior to this time. However, this is still much later than 3000 BCE
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Indian civilization was the oldest one.
No The Rigveda is one of the oldest sacred texts of Hinduism, and scholars generally date its composition to between 1500 BCE and 1200 BCE. The exact date of the Rigveda's composition is difficult to determine with precision because it was an oral tradition for many centuries before it was written down.
There is no evidence to suggest that the Rigveda is 3000 BCE old or that it was composed near the Swaraswati river. The Swaraswati river, which is mentioned in the Rigveda, is believed to have dried up around 2000 BCE, which would place the composition of the Rigveda prior to this time. However, this is still much later than 3000 BCE
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in india not only rigveda pls know about tamils literature and them astrophysics knowledge
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Couldn't have astronomers in the UK în that time as you can't even see the sun from over there 🤣
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They were not muslims by religion...they were the people living in dat region which today is known as Arab world... Arab world is just a term... Jus lyk in older days thre were no Muslim in Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan, Malaysia and Indonesia...all of these people were Hindus...
BTW whoever they were they translated it from ancient Hindu Sanskrit works... Even the Greeks were influenced by the ancient Hindu works... Coz on the timeline of history Greeks came mch later than the rigvedic people
Read the statement of CARL SAGAN about ancient Hindu works... He said no civilisation was working on numbers n timescales at which ancient Hindus were working...accuracy was spot on... Greeks came mch later n with many loop holes
Magnificent Documentary!
Thanks for sharing. I got the opportunity to witness a rocket launch in 2018. Memorable experience. I shared a pretty cool video of the trip to my channel.
Amazing content, @beeyondideas . If we could only talk to the ancient civilisation average astronomer, we d realise how ignorant we are individually nowadays...
Great video...I'd like to suggest to update it with the views of pre Hispanic civilizations as well
The Sumerians came up with the 24 hour day and the 360-day year. Long before India.
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Precisely because Summer and Babylon wrote in clay, we have enormous number of the earliest astronomical records, the vast majority of which haven't yet been translated. All astronomy from Rome, Greece, Egypt, to India have their roots in Sumeria.
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The pyramids as grandad told me was my point of reference to the creator to my heavens
Weve moved slightly through the milky way its exact to those days
Ancient Indian history is very very immense and not talked about enough.
Hope it gains more awareness
Arabic researchers translated it from Sanskrit
holy shit... this is mind blowing woo
Just imagine if the star parralax thingy was visible by the Greeks. The whole history would have been different.
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Greeks never influenced astronomy, it's the Indians who did.
In night my great-grandfather was able to identify time just observing the position of pole star ⭐
About a half million still untranslated texts.
Rig Vedic period (India)is BC 1500 -1000. So we can say only others are influenced by it. Not the opposite way as you said.
What happen to Mayans, Aztecs and Incas they study the stars?
You did not understand the scripture that President Busch referred to; of course humans have named stars but you implied that the quote was an error.
Hi there. I believe when he referred to the word ‘creator’ he meant the ‘creator of the universe’ or from his belief is The Christian God. Then to the contrary, I only pointed out that most of the star names are derived from the arabic language. Hope that clarifies it!
@@BeeyondIdeas Psalms 147:4 (KJV) "HE telleth the number of the stars; HE calleth them all by their names"
My own thought is that the bible states that God NAMED the stars. Whether or not men RE-NAMED them afterwards is a separate point.
This is similar to Genesis 2:19 (KJV) Where the bible mentions that Adam named the animals... "And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof."
This is not to say that Adam gave the CURRENT names to all of the animals, because they likely have been changed through the centuries, or have been renamed by people who believe they just discovered a certain animal, for example, and didn't know there was already a name given to that animal.
This could be the case as well with the names of the stars. People perhaps assumed the stars did not already have names, and so gave them names of their own liking.
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Saraswati river mentioned in Rig Veda existed at least 8000 years. Moreover, vedas are called "Shruti" which were passed orally before we started learning how to write.
So, Information of Vedas are much much more older, no evidence so far but they are very old.
Rig Veda is way older than all these civs. Rig veda talks about the Mighty Saraswati River that was in its prime 5-6000 BC ago, which is proven through geological studies and the evolution of Indo Saraswati civilisation around it.
Rigved(indian civilisation)is around 4500bc,so how greeck influence indian astrology 😂
Indian civilisation is oldest who study's astrology
Oxford lied so
Agreed 😂
Exactly
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The greek got drunk on wine and wrote a different history 😅
Who gave them the brain the ideas to study the stars or to do what they do to this day 🤔
What makes a child stare at a night sky in wonderment before they can speaking words?
You know zero about India bro...I am ur big fan...and I want u to do some serious research about India and make a separate video... Love from India...Jai Hind...❤️
The arabic band Greek civilization took the names from sanskrit. There were lot of translation did by Arabs from sanskrit to arabic.
Even the number system was taken from India, I don't know why main history or even this type of youtubers are also not ready tell the reality.
They say Egypt or Mesopotamia is the oldest civilization even though in India there so many archeological evidence present to show case Indian civilizations are oldest.
I think they are just concentrated towards dead civilization and thier is a lost info and aliens like stuff.
India is the only civilization which is still surviving from the oppressing abhrahamic faiths and they don't want to highlight it that's why I think.
"Same creater who names the stars also knows the name of 7 astronauts" he referring to biblical GOD
This video is soo biased and astronomy dates way back for India.
You forgot the Mayans
What about te mayan and aztec cultura?, greettings from México!
The first person ever to say that the earth is a sphere was Omar-e-Khayyam and he was a Muslim. At first, people didn't believe him and called him a psycho and challenged him to prove that the Earth has a spherical shape. Cuz at that time people said that If the earth has a spherical shape then why we don't fall off of it? To prove his idea(which was and is true), He made a spherical model and made a person stand on it. When the person stood on that the model, Omar-e-Khayyam span the model on it's axis. AND THE PERSON DIDN'T FALL OFF. Upon seeing an unnatural thing at that time, people said that he was a magician and took help from the spirits to perform his magic. Cuz of the belief of people, He was sentenced to death.
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Also I want to add that Holy Quran has told all of gravity, solar system etc. 1400 yrs ago. Before the humans were even created. The Holy Quran was revolutionized on Prophet Muhammad S.A.W (P.B.U.H). And before it was revolutionized, it was in the God's Realm and we Muslims believe that there is Only one God.
@@basaratgohar386 O come on! In Sanskrit Earth is referred as Bhumandal i.e Mandal means round and as per evidences that we have witnessed so far, Sanskrit is likely said to be more than 3000 years old, however it is much older and many evidences were destroyed by Invaders. Indian sub continent was considered knowledge and wealth center of the world and that's why everyone wanted to invade Indian subcontinent and we were looted time to time, morally, economically,
They are not Arabic , that's the oldest record you found
God's names for the stars are different than ours because He created them.
All Ancient People Studied the Solar System!!!!! There is nothing new under the Sun. Just new ways of how to use the knowledge.
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First research about Vedic Civilization and then create videos. Have you know about the mayasur's surya siddhant and aaryabhateeyam, panchang siddhant ?
lol not salty about the greeks
Bro if you are talking about Arabic knowledge of astronomy it was simply translated by Indian knowledge of astronomy... Arab came on donkeys and they were not as civilised as you are showing them...take example of current Afghanistan 😂 ...according to them earth is flat which is written in their books... Indian civilization is way more oldest and lots of cultures had copied our knowledge and translated into their own texts... So please do some research on it...
Translated Sanskrit. So Indian civilization had already established astronomy much before middle eastern civilization. The first should had been Indian civilization
You missed the point, he was talking about the one and only GOD ALMIGHTY.
Do some research on vedas and sanskrit religious books ,it is full of mistery .You can find much more than you think it has.It includes everything from beginning to the end of universe .It also gives the idea about time travelling .Pls do check out!
The contribution of Indian astronomers in our ancient Indian civilization is pretty evident from all the temples that is influenced by how the Sun and other the celestial bodies worked and the books like the Rig veda predates any of those other civilization by over 1000 years or so. Please fact check and research before doing a contribution study video like this. You are undermining the prestigious Rishis, Maharishis and their contribution by saying that they were influenced by another civilization.
Lemme correct you :- Indian Astronomy had not been influenced by Greeks But Greeks civilization had been teached by Indians.
History had teached us Wrong by Bigger Universities and many other.
Islamic civilisation is not Arab civilisation that is a clear misconception there were many scientists in the Islamic civilisation that were not Arab mostly Persians it’s not like it’s hard to figure it out when you study history.
Thumbs up for those who think that India should have been at first. I am really sad that Indian astronomy was at last and that too very little was said about it..
Chronological disorder...please make some corrections...
no aztecs or myans?
Psalm 147:4
Arabs is so advance before they got islam
Very informative but I think it’s bad taste to “umm ackshually” Bush (or anyone for that matter) giving a eulogy for 7 people.
Good video, however, indian astrology documented is more than 13500 yrs old. It's the lack of knowledge of whiteman burden to prove eveything in this world that these facts are not known. In india, practice of birthchart is prevalent for last 13500 yrs which list not only planets in our solar system, but other galaxies.
6:35 correction indians were not influenced by the Greeks it was the other way around
The Rigveda is one of the oldest sacred texts of Hinduism, and scholars generally date its composition to between 1500 BCE and 1200 BCE. The exact date of the Rigveda's composition is difficult to determine with precision because it was an oral tradition for many centuries before it was written down.
There is no evidence to suggest that the Rigveda is 3000 BCE old or that it was composed near the Swaraswati river. The Swaraswati river, which is mentioned in the Rigveda, is believed to have dried up around 2000 BCE, which would place the composition of the Rigveda prior to this time. However, this is still much later than 3000 BCE
I was mighty impressed with your presentation but a little sceptical on the technicalities until u completely bungled on the indian astronomy. With some more research u can do much better than what has been dished out.
I understand it's easy to call out a fault than rectify it.
A little more reading on the achievements of Indian astronomy will stand u in good stead going ahead in life .
I might have been liberal in my thoughts and apologies if it has offended u.
Thanks. All the very best.
Alot of people opposed the heliocentric system but didn't want to die from the church , you need to delete/redo this
Shallow research about India
Sorry this is false timeline and archeology can provide you with the truth
You explained it nicely, but astronomy comes from ancient Indian civilization, for instance, brigu samhita as well as rig ved,kindly note it.
Study Indian ancient astronomy
The Arabians stole it from Indians…get your facts right kid. Even now Indian space research organisation guides UAE 🇦🇪 s ambitious program of building a city on Mars.
Such a brainwashed society! Even with computers.
Do well research before putting a video. When Greeks weren't even born there was RigVeda the Indian text. Don't make videos without research or with half knowledge.
wrong info
Indians were inspired from Greeks 😅😂
What a joke you have no idea how old this Hindu culture is it’s teachings about every field
Bad research
Totally baised video there is no ground work done by him at all.
@ Bee please do thorough research before making any content. You are undermining Ancient Indians massive contribution to Maths and Science.
Your research is too weak. Though you mention about Indian civilization you have not researched much about it
Why so little on Indian civilization? ...& What Greek inspired Indian civilization??? This is factually very wrong
What nonsense, Greeks never influenced Astronomy in India, It's Indians who influenced Astronomy in Greece and this entire planet.
Indians astronomy was influenced by Greeks Lol it was a nice joke
Not only you the hole world don't even have an idea what is really Vedas, jyotishya shastra, ganitha Shastra, vaimanika shastra ext.....
Well Indian civilization is one of the oldest and most advanced
6:15 + If Earth is moving around the sun, we would be observing the stars from different places along the orbit. Oh No no...!! They are farther away than they thought.
HTF DOES THAT EXPLAIN THE CONSTANT STARS PATHS ETC? I'll go one further.. Supposedly, the sun is flying through space orbiting in the galaxy which is flying thru space in the universe. And yet.... THERE IS THIS CONSTANT, TIMELESS, UNCHANGING SKY WE SEE !!! DO YOU THINK WE ARE THAT STUPID?