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The ancient book that's scientifically right.


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The Hermetica appears to be scientifically accurate. It states plainly that the Sun is in the center of the Solar system and the Earth is a sphere. In 1463 the Hermetica was translated and printed and in 1492 Christopher Columbus discovers the American continent and proving that the Earth is round and in 1543 Nicolaus Copernicus published his treatise On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, in which the Heliocentric view of the Solar system was proposed in Europe for the first time. Previous to Copernicus, everyone believed in the Geocentric view of the Solar system, where they thought the Earth was in the center of the Solar system. Did the Hermetica help to shape the opinions of those that read it, on the nature of the Earth and its place in the Solar system? These are the passages in question:

Corpus Hermeticum XVI

[7] Since it is the visual ray itself, the sun shines all around the cosmos with the utmost brilliance, on the part above and on the part below. For the sun is situated in the center of the cosmos, wearing it like a crown. Like a good driver, it steadies the chariot of the cosmos and fastens the reins to itself to prevent the cosmos going out of control. And the reins are these: life and soul and spirit and immortality and becoming. The driver slackens the reins to let the cosmos go, not far away (to tell the truth) but along with him.

The part of this passage that saids that the Sun is like the driver of a chariot that controls the cosmos by reins, to prevent it from going out of control, is referring to the Sun's gravity.

[17] Around the sun are the eight spheres that depend from it: the sphere of the fixed stars, the six of the planets, and the one that surrounds the earth.

Asclepius.

[16] "This hollow of the world, round like a sphere, cannot itself, because of its quality or shape, be wholly visible."

The full Hermetica and Asclepius can be read here:

http://www.orderofmelchizedek.com/thehermetica.htm

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The first person known to have proposed a heliocentric system, however, was Aristarchus of Samos (c. 270 BC).

Source: Wiki

Also, there is no single book called the hermetica. There is a collection of several different hermetic writings:

Hermetica is a category of literature dating from Late Antiquity that purports to contain secret wisdom, generally attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, "thrice-great Hermes", who is a syncretism of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian deity Thoth. A collection of several such Greek texts from the 2nd and 3rd centuries,[1] remnants of a more extensive previous literature, were compiled into a Corpus Hermeticum by Italian scholars during the Renaissance...

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Hermetic writing on heliocentrism dates to after Aristarchus' heliocentric proposition.

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The Hermetica appears to be scientifically accurate. It states plainly that the Sun is in the center of the Solar system and the Earth is a sphere. In 1463 the Hermetica was translated and printed and in 1492 Christopher Columbus discovers the American continent and proving that the Earth is round and in 1543 Nicolaus Copernicus published his treatise On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, in which the Heliocentric view of the Solar system was proposed in Europe for the first time. Previous to Copernicus, everyone believed in the Geocentric view of the Solar system, where they thought the Earth was in the center of the Solar system. Did the Hermetica help to shape the opinions of those that read it, on the nature of the Earth and its place in the Solar system? These are the passages in question:

Corpus Hermeticum XVI

[7] Since it is the visual ray itself, the sun shines all around the cosmos with the utmost brilliance, on the part above and on the part below. For the sun is situated in the center of the cosmos, wearing it like a crown. Like a good driver, it steadies the chariot of the cosmos and fastens the reins to itself to prevent the cosmos going out of control. And the reins are these: life and soul and spirit and immortality and becoming. The driver slackens the reins to let the cosmos go, not far away (to tell the truth) but along with him.

The part of this passage that saids that the Sun is like the driver of a chariot that controls the cosmos by reins, to prevent it from going out of control, is referring to the Sun's gravity.

[17] Around the sun are the eight spheres that depend from it: the sphere of the fixed stars, the six of the planets, and the one that surrounds the earth.

Asclepius.

[16] "This hollow of the world, round like a sphere, cannot itself, because of its quality or shape, be wholly visible."

The full Hermetica and Asclepius can be read here:

http://www.orderofme...hehermetica.htm

Nice one to sell on the market, where people know the least bit of history it just causes amusement.

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I have thought it was interesting that all these Astrological interested, and mathmatical, and scientific, cultures did not figure out the Earth revolves around the Sun by simply assuming that the same light as hits the Earth is hitting the Moon. Then depending on how far, or how big, they thought the Moon was, they could calculate how far the Sun was away. But regardless they would be able to see that the Sun cannot revolve around the Earth and still be the light that is on the Moon also.

From the OP link:

Since it is the visual ray itself, the sun shines all around the cosmos with the utmost brilliance, on the part above and on the part below. For the sun is situated in the center of the cosmos, wearing it like a crown. Like a good driver, it steadies the chariot of the cosmos and fastens the reins to itself to prevent the cosmos going out of control. And the reins are these: life and soul and spirit and immortality and becoming. The driver slackens the reins to let the cosmos go, not far away (to tell the truth) but along with him.

The part of this passage that saids that the Sun is like the driver of a chariot that controls the cosmos by reins, to prevent it from going out of control, is referring to the Sun's gravity.

[17] Around the sun are the eight spheres that depend from it: the sphere of the fixed stars, the six of the planets, and the one that surrounds the earth.

They might have a few facts correct here and there, but this is hardly what should be called a "Scientifically Correct" book.

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In 1463 the Hermetica was translated and printed and in 1492 Christopher Columbus discovers the American continent and proving that the Earth is round ....

Just wanted to say that people knew the earth was round before christopher columbus. Infact the greeks figured out the circumference of the earth, and christopher columbus said it was smaller and he was wrong cause he didnt land in india.

Members of the Historical Association in 1945 stated that:

"The idea that educated men at the time of Columbus believed that the earth was flat, and that this belief was one of the obstacles to be overcome by Columbus before he could get his project sanctioned, remains one of the hardiest errors in teaching"

Historian Jeffrey Burton Russell says the flat earth error flourished most between 1870 and 1920, and had to do with the ideological setting created by struggles over evolution.[7] Russell claims "with extraordinary [sic] few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the earth was flat," and credits histories by John William Draper, Andrew Dickson White, and Washington Irving for popularizing the flat-earth myth

Historians of science David Lindberg and Ronald Numbers point out that "there was scarcely a Christian scholar of the Middle Ages who did not acknowledge [Earth's] sphericity and even know its approximate circumference".

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