Greece

If up to now astronomy was above all associated with religious cults related to agriculture, it is thanks to the Greek philosophers of t...

Stonehenge

Stonehenge is the third oldest Neolithic site. It is located 13 km from Salisbury, in Wiltshire, south of England. It is thought that th...

The Antikythera Machine

In 1900, during a dive, sponge fishermen discovered a copper machine near Antikythera dating back to the 1st century BC. It seemed to ap...

The Academy and Greek Schools

Between 300 and 270 BCE because the date is not certain, the Greek mathematician Euclid (fl .: 325-265 BC) wrote his famous Elements, a ...

Claude Ptolemy

Around 140 AD, Claude Ptolemy (90-168 AD) took the theory of Hipparchus. He exposes in his Almagest the first empirical theory of the mo...

Plato, Aristotle and Empiricism

Since the modern era, Plato (427-327 BCE) is considered the first philosopher to formulate and provide answers to the great questions of...

European Geniuses

At a time when the world was still to be explored, the Italian Amerigo Vespucci discovered the Indies, or rather America and his Amerind...

ESO Facilities at Mount Paranal

ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) observatory was inaugurated in March 1999. It is located in the north of Chile, about 500 km south ...

The Birth of the Universe

After many calculations and experiments in physics laboratories, it is believed that at the beginning of time, the universe was microsco...

Archaeoastronomy: From the Truth Doc

Before we consider exploring our galaxy and the universe, we must first and foremost place our home, the earth and the solar system in t...

Egypt, China and Mesopotamia

It is probably in Egypt that the study of the sky was born, to be jealously guarded by the priests 3000 years before our era. Astrology ...