22-09-2026, 12:15 AM
(This post was last modified: 22-09-2026, 12:18 AM by Jorge_Stolfi.)
(21-09-2026, 10:39 PM)rikforto wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.the entire idea of dividing the ecliptic with 24 evenly spaced solar terms didn't exist yet
You are quite wrong. The 24 solar terms were defined sometime around 100 BCE.
Quote:Do you have a source on [the meaning of of the "chicken white grubs" phrase being unknown]?
No, I could not find any source that claimed that people did know what that phrase meant, in 1400 CE or any time later. Did you?
Quote:Why create that kind of record? Why write that?Scribes, scholars, and students in the Middle Ages would often copy books that they did not understand.
Archaeologists still often copy inscriptions that they do not understand.
Linguists often write down stories told by natives in languages that they do not understand.
Why do they do it?