SCIENCE IN ANCIENT ARTWORK AND SCIENCE TODAY


Numbers and Cycles in Ancient Astronomy
By
Charles William Johnson

Table of Contents


  • Preface
  • The Maya Long Count and the Sidereal Orbit of Venus
  • The Reckoning Systems of Ancient Mesoamerica:
    the Synodic and Sidereal Orbits of Venus
  • The Sothic Cycle of Ancient Egypt
  • The Sothic Cycle and the Maya Venus Cycle
  • Symbolism in the Sothic Cycle Number 1649.457812
  • The Sothic Cycle: 693 (1649.457812)
  • The Precession of the Equinoxes
  • Time-Cycles in Terms of Distance
  • The Numbers of the Universe and the Ancient Reckoning System of Mesoamerica
  • The Maya Long Count and Spacetime/movement
  • Measurement and Coincidence of Numbers and Proportion
  • The Platonic Year and The Nineveh Constant (25920:22680)
  • The Platonic Year & the Maya Long Count
  • Bibliography


  • Numbers and Cycles in Ancient Astronomy

    Extract

    The subject of ancient reckoning of time and space can only be inferred from the logic of numbers, with very few exceptions of data in the historical record. Many historically significant numbers exist in the historical record of different ancient cultures. But, the method for computing those numerical results remains a theme of speculation. Many of the ancient Babylonian clay tablets that exist reflect specific mathematical and geometrical problems, much like a school textbook of today. However, notebooks of the scientists who computed the astronomical meandering of the bodies in our solar system have yet to be found.

    Our analyses of the historically significant numbers coming out of the ancient reckoning systems are based on speculation about the logic of numbers; how the numbers might relate to one another through elementary mathematical methods. Numbers that appear in the ancient maya system are compared to the numbers that appear in the ancient kemi system. Such a comparison allows us to visualize the significance of intermediary numbers. The ancient day-counts of 260, 360, 364, and 365 days are taken into consideration in this light, along with other day-counts relating, for example, to the cycles of other planetary bodies in our solar system. In this manner, one is almost able to distinguish the possibility that the 365c day-count came about before the 260c day-count. Scholars believe the 260c day-count to be the older calendrical system, but the math of the numbers suggests otherwise.

    In this manner, strange appearing numbers in the historical record, such as 756, 819, 151840, 1366560, among many others, suddenly reveal unsuspecting interrelationships. For example, the k'awil count, identified as the 819c day-count, appears to mediate computations between the 360c and the 364c day-counts. Further, one begins to distinguish the possible use of the mediatio/duplatio method of computation, whereby the ancients may have not only doubled numbers, but also trebled them. In this manner, one arrives at a table of squares and cubes of the whole numbers. Numbers that at first glance appear to be unrelated are thus revealed to lie on the same number series representing a multiple of one another. The maya long count is a more obvious case in representing a doubling of its terms (36, 72, 144, 288, 576, 1152 and 2304).

    In Numbers and Cycles in Ancient Astronomy, we review the Sothic cycle's encoded numbers (693 and 1649.457812). These apparently insignificant numbers relate to the 63c in ancient kemi and by way of maya counts (18144). Once again, we see that the numbers corresponding to the ancient kemi system relate easily to the numbers/fractals of the ancient Mesoamerican system. We further examine the possibility of how the numbers/fractls of the different systems reflect the numbers coming out of the level of planetary bodies in our solar. Therefore, it is not surprising to fin further relationships based on the precession of the equinoxes and the Platonic year. In this manner we also observe how the ancient Nineveh number/fractal (2268) interconnects with the Platonic Year cycle (25920).

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    E a r t h / m a t r i X
    SCIENCE IN ANCIENT ARTWORK
    Numbers and Cycles in Ancient Astronomy
    By Charles William Johnson

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    August, 1999.
    ISBN 1-58616-180-6

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