Decans are 36 groups of small constellations that rise in order on the horizon every 24 hours. The International Astronomical Union named the asteroid 5589 De Meis after him. The main contribution that ancient Egypt astrology made were the units known as decans. Meeus, now discontinued) which guided so many generations of astronomers and amateurs in the ever-changing spectacle of the sky. Five temples of Apollo on Mainland Greece and Ancient Ionia (Asia Minor), namely Delphi, Didyma, Hierapolis, Delos and Rhodes, have been examined regarding their functioning through astronomical orientation. Huber) and the yearly Almanacco astronomico e nautico (with J. The idea of a Hellenistic period is a 19th-century concept, and did not exist in ancient Greece.Although words related in form or meaning, e.g. Panaino), Babylonian Eclipse Observations (with P.J. He is the author of many articles and books, among which one may recall Eclipses, Astronomical Amusements (papers in honor of J. Salvo De Meis is a well-known scholar in the field of celestial mechanics and historical astronomy. The Chinese were good observers of celestial phenomena. Heliacal Phenomena will be useful as a compendium of information, from which to be able to develop further studies. This symposium is about ancient Greek and Chinese astronomy. That is, from the epochs in which stars were gods, to the modern applications of high speed astronomical photometry. It is an invitation to students and scholars to consider this subject, that was so useful to science, agriculture, peoples, for its many uses, from knowing the seasons of seeding to navigation, the aspect of the sky related to them, and the legacy left to humanity by the ancient texts from Babylon, China, Greece, Rome or the Academies and Scientists until the present time. The aim is at giving to Humanists a general view on the importance of these phenomena from the points of view of history, literature, astronomy, that in the past were diffused in histories, poems, and treatises now often unavailable. In such an extremely wide field, both for theoretical aspects and for the number of documents that have accumulated within centuries, the essentials of theory and documentation have been carefully chosen and the events have been recomputed and compared to previous research. There is one clear image of the Sun a circle with rays coming from itand, more controversially, archaeologists have identified two images of the star group known as the Pleiades, represented here perhaps by clusters of small cupules carved into the rock. Heliacal Phenomena is a parallel to Salvo De Meis’ Eclipses, being another astronomical introduction for Humanists.
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