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Nicholas is correct. All of the planets out to Jupiter can be discerned with

the naked eye.

Their orbits were known to a high degree of accuracy, and formed first the

Epicylic Solar System

(it was earth-centric, based on the crystal spheres, upon which the planets were

embedded ) and used

multiple of these spheres to follow the observed motions of the planets in the

Zodiac. The system was known

to the Babylonians (Sumerian/Akaadians) and was their observations that formed

the initial basis of Vedic

Astrology. (historical evidence is noted in the basis values of angular

measurements, 6 and 60, which were

known to be Babylonian in nature. Hence a circle has 6x60 degrees, or 360

degrees, with 60 mins of arc/degree,

and 60 seconds of arc/min of arc. Babylonian numbering is the only sexadecimal

system known to exist)

 

The same naked eye observations were used by Copernicus to develop the

Heliocentric solar system, sun

centered this time to lower the number of spheres necessary to represent the

motions of the planets. As observations

were getting better, the number of epicyclic spheres was increasing until it was

very difficult to account for

them all.

 

Tycho Brahe and Keppler did all their obervations with the naked eye and

developed the basis of eliptical orbital

mechanics from the naked eye observations. All of these included Saturn, who

was finally studied in detail

with a telescope by Gallileo. He did the first non-naked eye observations of

the planets, and even the sun, which

irrepairably damaged his sight. It was only the religious right that forced him

to soften his belief in a Heliocentric

solar system and sunspots (which he observed with a telescope).

 

The outer planets could not be discovered until orbital measurements were made

by telescope. Since the distance of

Uranus, Neptune and Pluto were so great (and Pluto may, in fact, NOT be a

planet, but simply a rogue moon). and their

influence on the other planet orbits was so small, only with telescopic

measurements were there postulation of exterior

bodies. These calculations predicted Uranus, and later Neptune and finally

Pluto (which required photographic evidence

because of its small size, great distance etc)

 

-- John M

 

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On 7/9/2003 at 3:57 PM Nicholas wrote:

 

>Dear Vivek

>> The planets cannot be seen with the naked eye.

>

>According to the Melbourne Planetarium website

>Uranus was discovered by William Herschel in 1781, thus becoming the first

>planet to be discovered since ancient times. It is the first of three

>planets beyond Jupiter which are not visible to the naked eye from Earth.

>It

>is a Gas Giant, though much smaller than Jupiter and Saturn.

>

>

>

>Thus my understanding is that the 7 Vedic planets are able to be seen by

>the

>naked eye . The nodes are then derived by calculation .

>

>Your use of is subject to

 

 

 

 

 

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