Timeline for How would technology develop differently without astronomy?
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| S Dec 28, 2014 at 20:00 | history | suggested | Shokhet | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
things could get confusing if a few more answers were added
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| Dec 28, 2014 at 19:57 | comment | added | Cort Ammon | @SJuan76: I think this is a wonderful chicken and egg topic, which suggests we've found something fundamental to ourselves. I think the stars do have one strong effect on mythology: they are a very complicated structure which is the same for viewers across a "nation." The permanency of attaching stars to the stories might be hard to come by without the stars. In return, this would likely shape the stories into different stories that survive better without the permanent glow of the stars. | |
| Dec 28, 2014 at 19:55 | comment | added | iAdjunct | @SJuan76 - That may be true for some, but perhaps not for others. For example: the north star. It stands watch, always watching over everybody (in this hemisphere at least). How many other things like that are there? Also: the constellations may have been named after mythos, but how much of the mythos came from the fact that there are stars to begin with? What tell you there's something else more than the lights in the sky? | |
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| Dec 28, 2014 at 19:42 | comment | added | SJuan76 | I do not think the star shapes dictated what the archetypes (legends) narrate, but the other way around. We have a bunch of stories to count based in our day-to-day life (family relationships, society, nature) and reinterpret them on the stars. | |
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| Dec 28, 2014 at 19:00 | history | answered | iAdjunct | CC BY-SA 3.0 |