Talk:Hebrew astronomy

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As Johann Műller (Regiomontanus) died on 6 July 1476, it seems highly questionble that David Gans ever corresponded with him.

B00P 21:22, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Must have been the oldest man alive to correspond with Regiomontanus and Kepler. I think this article needs considerable trimming: cut the redundant stuff in Biblical cosmology and trim that enormous list of red names. Maestlin 04:53, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

I just did a Google search on "Biblical astronomy" and "Biblical cosmology" in the process of thinking about whether the two articles could be merged. Found a lot of weird stuff relating to modern interpretations of the Bible--geocentrism and so forth. The historical parts of these articles should be strippped out and put into a new page with a title like "Astronomy in the Bible," and these two pages merged to hold the modern Bible study stuff. Maestlin 01:34, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Is that a typo about Rabban Gamaliel and a "telescope"? He lived only about 15 centuries before its invention! --Tomrosenfeld 18:47, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

The original text of this article (I've modified a few passages) was taken straight from the Jewish Encyclopaedia. I have no idea what the author had in mind. but the word "telescope" should probably be read loosely, maybe it's just a sighting tube or a mirror. If you feel confident about it, take it out! Maestlin 23:57, 29 April 2006 (UTC)