Showing posts with label Perseus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Perseus. Show all posts

Friday, January 19, 2018

The true mythology of the constellations











































Friday, October 21, 2016

Ancient Eastern Asia



                                                    Spirals on a prehistoric Chinese vessel






                                                               Chinese bronze vessel
                                                               (photo: Gary Lee Todd)


                                                              A labyrinth in Nepal




Thursday, October 20, 2016

The Chinese pyramids



Chinese pot (200 BC) with the Greek symbol "maeandros"











                                             

Thursday, October 6, 2016

Ancient America




                                             Gorgoneion in the Aztec Solar Calendar (see "Perseus")














Monday, September 19, 2016

Perseus



                                                    Perseus - Pius Clemente Museum, Vatican
                                                                            (photo by Alvesgaspar-Wikipadia)







Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Ptolemy's Constellations

The drawings were made in 2003 and were published in 2007-08 in the book "Klaudiou Ptolemaiou - Mathematike Syntaxis" (Almagest) - ISBN-SET :  9789606716058.


* The numbers next to the stars are according to the order they appear in Ptolemy's list.


      CONSTELLATIONS OF THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE









      CONSTELLATIONS OF THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE