Post by Wayne Hall on Aug 9, 2017 23:54:01 GMT -5
Hera Mitropoulou's address to NASA:
Dear ladies and gentlemen, scientists, teachers, students...
I have come from Greece or Hellas , the country with the most/biggest astronomy related cultural heritage in the world, as we know as a certain science today.
Let me explain...the ancient Greek philosophers were the first to establish Astronomy and its related subjects as a science. Anaxagoras said that the atom cannot be the ultimate small particle of matter, since it should
consist of smaller and smaller particles, like sand grains, one within the other. Later, his hypothesis was justified.
The power that forms the Cosmos and imposes the order on chaos is the MIND, which is distinguished from matter by its simplicity, clarity and self-existence.
The Sun was not a god but an ardent, glowing mass, while the God was one and only in the Universe.
The ancient scriptures make reference to all the basic constellations, and thus are a tradition, not a mythology, which is lost in the labyrinth of the ancient allegoric cosmogenic history of that peninsula, I mean the Hellenic peninsula.
The mind is a transmitter and a receiver , of energy, thought, intention, conscience, sovereign and with its own free will.
Hipparchus made the first list of stars, giving them names from that ancient heritage. The delimitation and categorization of stars and constellations was what made astronomy a true science.
In 135 BC a supernova erupted, and the phenomenon was recorded.
Heiron, the centaur, is referred to as he who gave Jason a sphere to be used for his navigating orientation. That was engraved in a turtleshell's curvature.
Claudius Ptolemee wrote the Almagesta, a <<major>>book of astronomy, as the name implies.
The Hellenes who colonized Asia Minor , Sicily and elsewhere, promoted astronomy as well as mathematics and Physics. Democritus talked about particles of matter and called them "hadra" and "lepta", which are no other than what we call hadrons and leptons.
Anaxagoras also set the basis of modern astronomy and has been justified by modern observations.
Aristarchus said that the Earth is orbiting the sun and not the opposite, something which, centuries later was observed by Galileo Galilei.
Poseidonius from Rhodes and Archimedes were also brilliant astronomers and mathematicians.
No wonder why NASA gives to its missions, names taken from the encoded historic tradition /mythology, as all of you already know.
Later, the Roman emperors paid much more attention to their military progress than to science, and astronomy was rather neglected.
Yet, in the bearer of Greek culture which is called Romanity or The Eastern Roman Empire, or Byzantium , as the western scholars call it, there were brilliant astronomers and scientists such as Nikiforos Grigoras, Isaac
Argyros, Iakovos Metochitis and others. In Hellenic, speech or “logos” which also means "reason", formulated the biblical term Logos, implying the Son of God withthrough whom all things were made, the universe was constructed and , and He gave to every being a Reason (logos) of existence. Everything is, because it has a reason to be...
When the Empire fell, the scientists escaped to the west, and in this way, the Hellenic world gave the Sciences to the Western World, and the sciences were developed to what we admire today.
However, even now, many Greek scientists work around the world in various Universities, Institutions and Research Centers , promoting science and contributing to what is to come in the future.
Here in NASA, many people study the Universe and admire the splendor of a sublime creation, with many of them becoming better people and devout blessed personalities because of that.
Last but not least, we thank you for the present program, which we hope will give us new experience and motivation to continue our efforts and take back to our country, not only beautiful and interesting experiences and knowledge but also the enthusiasm to transmit and impart what we will have seen and done in this program.
Thanks again,
Dear ladies and gentlemen, scientists, teachers, students...
I have come from Greece or Hellas , the country with the most/biggest astronomy related cultural heritage in the world, as we know as a certain science today.
Let me explain...the ancient Greek philosophers were the first to establish Astronomy and its related subjects as a science. Anaxagoras said that the atom cannot be the ultimate small particle of matter, since it should
consist of smaller and smaller particles, like sand grains, one within the other. Later, his hypothesis was justified.
The power that forms the Cosmos and imposes the order on chaos is the MIND, which is distinguished from matter by its simplicity, clarity and self-existence.
The Sun was not a god but an ardent, glowing mass, while the God was one and only in the Universe.
The ancient scriptures make reference to all the basic constellations, and thus are a tradition, not a mythology, which is lost in the labyrinth of the ancient allegoric cosmogenic history of that peninsula, I mean the Hellenic peninsula.
The mind is a transmitter and a receiver , of energy, thought, intention, conscience, sovereign and with its own free will.
Hipparchus made the first list of stars, giving them names from that ancient heritage. The delimitation and categorization of stars and constellations was what made astronomy a true science.
In 135 BC a supernova erupted, and the phenomenon was recorded.
Heiron, the centaur, is referred to as he who gave Jason a sphere to be used for his navigating orientation. That was engraved in a turtleshell's curvature.
Claudius Ptolemee wrote the Almagesta, a <<major>>book of astronomy, as the name implies.
The Hellenes who colonized Asia Minor , Sicily and elsewhere, promoted astronomy as well as mathematics and Physics. Democritus talked about particles of matter and called them "hadra" and "lepta", which are no other than what we call hadrons and leptons.
Anaxagoras also set the basis of modern astronomy and has been justified by modern observations.
Aristarchus said that the Earth is orbiting the sun and not the opposite, something which, centuries later was observed by Galileo Galilei.
Poseidonius from Rhodes and Archimedes were also brilliant astronomers and mathematicians.
No wonder why NASA gives to its missions, names taken from the encoded historic tradition /mythology, as all of you already know.
Later, the Roman emperors paid much more attention to their military progress than to science, and astronomy was rather neglected.
Yet, in the bearer of Greek culture which is called Romanity or The Eastern Roman Empire, or Byzantium , as the western scholars call it, there were brilliant astronomers and scientists such as Nikiforos Grigoras, Isaac
Argyros, Iakovos Metochitis and others. In Hellenic, speech or “logos” which also means "reason", formulated the biblical term Logos, implying the Son of God withthrough whom all things were made, the universe was constructed and , and He gave to every being a Reason (logos) of existence. Everything is, because it has a reason to be...
When the Empire fell, the scientists escaped to the west, and in this way, the Hellenic world gave the Sciences to the Western World, and the sciences were developed to what we admire today.
However, even now, many Greek scientists work around the world in various Universities, Institutions and Research Centers , promoting science and contributing to what is to come in the future.
Here in NASA, many people study the Universe and admire the splendor of a sublime creation, with many of them becoming better people and devout blessed personalities because of that.
Last but not least, we thank you for the present program, which we hope will give us new experience and motivation to continue our efforts and take back to our country, not only beautiful and interesting experiences and knowledge but also the enthusiasm to transmit and impart what we will have seen and done in this program.
Thanks again,