“A lot of people they don’t know that Africans even named the stars, that different peoples, different so-called native peoples, have their own names for the stars, and have star charts just as accurate as the Chinese star charts, which are more ancient than the European star charts or even the Arabic ones or the star charts of the New World civilizations. Everybody’s got their own cosmology. Everybody’s got their own description of the universe.” PeopleKnowsWorldDifferentUniverseNamesStarsCivilizationAncientChineseNativeDescriptionNew WorldAccurateDifferent PeoplesCosmology Book:The Healing Source: The Healing
“We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a lot about a person, he once said, by the way they look at the stars.” PeopleThinkingWayFirstsLooksPersonsSaidFatherStarsUniqueDiscussingCosmology Book:Axis Source: Axis
“The heaven is spherical in shape, and moves as a sphere; the earth too is sensibly spherical in shape, when taken as a whole; in position it lies in the middle of the heavens very much like its center; in size and distance it has the ratio of a point to the sphere of the fixed stars; and it has no motion from place to place.” WholeEarthMovingLyingHeavenStarsTakenMiddlePositionShapesDistanceSizeAstronomyFixedSpheresCosmologyRatios Book:Ptolemy's Almagest Source: Ptolemy's Almagest
“The first question concerning the Celestial Bodies is whether there be a system, that is whether the world or universe compose together one globe, with a center, or whether the particular globes of earth and stars be scattered dispersedly, each on its own roots, without any system or common center.” WorldFirstsBodyEarthTogetherUniverseStarsCommonParticularRootsAstronomyGlobesCelestialCosmologyCelestial Bodies Author:Francis Bacon