Essay | Ancient Greek Astronomy

For countless centuries, man has looked to the sky, marveling at the multitude of stars, planets, and even the occasional comet.  Some merely looked with wonder, but others, they wanted to know more, wanted to know what those stars were, what they were made of, and what else was beyond the looking glass of the naked eye.  Man developed telescopes, and so saw bits and pieces of what they craved, yet they did not know how to explain it.  Enter: the birth of astronomy.  Well alright, not exactly the birth of astronomy, but "little by little, however, given the unvarying cyclical nature of many celestial phenomena, mankind became aware of the existence of a world where the caprice of the elements and the unpredictability of supernatural forces was unknown but that was governed by laws capable of being discovered.  This was the beginning of astronomy's emergence as a science." (Cotardiere,...
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