http://the-moon.us/index.php?title=Nomenclature-Mythological_Figures&feed=atom&action=historyNomenclature-Mythological Figures - Revision history2024-03-28T11:39:15ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.31.1http://the-moon.us/index.php?title=Nomenclature-Mythological_Figures&diff=18030&oldid=prevApi at 02:56, 18 April 20182018-04-18T02:56:50Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* The original lunar names taken from what we would today regard as mythology -- [[Atlas|Atlas]], [[Cepheus|Cepheus]], [[Endymion|Endymion]], [[Hercules|Hercules]] and [[Mercurius|Mercurius]] (together with the discontinued name [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermes Hermes]) -- were introduced by [[Riccioli|Riccioli]], who used them to label features near the Moon's northeast limb. Riccioli evidently felt these Greek legends, and the astronomical contributions attributed to them, derived from the lives of actual historic persons who [http://www.e-rara.ch/zut/content/pageview/194693 he placed] in the range 1580-1345 BC, no less real to him than [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroaster Zoroaster] (who Riccioli regarded as the first astronomer, placing him at 1990 BC, and after whom he also named a feature in this area). <span class="membersnap">- <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Jim Mosher</del></span></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* The original lunar names taken from what we would today regard as mythology -- [[Atlas|Atlas]], [[Cepheus|Cepheus]], [[Endymion|Endymion]], [[Hercules|Hercules]] and [[Mercurius|Mercurius]] (together with the discontinued name [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermes Hermes]) -- were introduced by [[Riccioli|Riccioli]], who used them to label features near the Moon's northeast limb. Riccioli evidently felt these Greek legends, and the astronomical contributions attributed to them, derived from the lives of actual historic persons who [http://www.e-rara.ch/zut/content/pageview/194693 he placed] in the range 1580-1345 BC, no less real to him than [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroaster Zoroaster] (who Riccioli regarded as the first astronomer, placing him at 1990 BC, and after whom he also named a feature in this area). <span class="membersnap">- <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">JimMosher</ins></span></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* The original lunar names taken from what we would today regard as mythology -- [/Atlas Atlas], [/Cepheus Cepheus], [/Endymion Endymion], [/Hercules Hercules] and [/Mercurius Mercurius] (together with the discontinued name [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermes Hermes]) -- were introduced by [/Riccioli Riccioli], who used them to label features near the Moon's northeast limb. Riccioli evidently felt these Greek legends, and the astronomical contributions attributed to them, derived from the lives of actual historic persons who [http://www.e-rara.ch/zut/content/pageview/194693 he placed] in the range 1580-1345 BC, no less real to him than [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroaster Zoroaster] (who Riccioli regarded as the first astronomer, placing him at 1990 BC, and after whom he also named a feature in this area). <span class="membersnap">- [http://www.wikispaces.com/user/view/JimMosher [[Image:JimMosher-lg.jpg|16px|JimMosher]]] [http://www.wikispaces.com/user/view/JimMosher JimMosher]</span></div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* The original lunar names taken from what we would today regard as mythology -- [/Atlas Atlas], [/Cepheus Cepheus], [/Endymion Endymion], [/Hercules Hercules] and [/Mercurius Mercurius] (together with the discontinued name [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermes Hermes]) -- were introduced by [/Riccioli Riccioli], who used them to label features near the Moon's northeast limb. Riccioli evidently felt these Greek legends, and the astronomical contributions attributed to them, derived from the lives of actual historic persons who [http://www.e-rara.ch/zut/content/pageview/194693 he placed] in the range 1580-1345 BC, no less real to him than [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroaster Zoroaster] (who Riccioli regarded as the first astronomer, placing him at 1990 BC, and after whom he also named a feature in this area). <span class="membersnap">- [http://www.wikispaces.com/user/view/JimMosher [[Image:JimMosher-lg.jpg|16px|JimMosher]]] [http://www.wikispaces.com/user/view/JimMosher JimMosher]</span></div></td></tr>
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=Names of Mythological Figures (official IAU nomenclature)=<br />
<br /> [/Apollo Apollo]<br /> [http://the-moon.wikispaces.com/Artemis Artemis]<br /> [/Atlas Atlas]<br /> [/Cepheus Cepheus]<br /> [/Daedalus Daedalus]<br /> [/Endymion Endymion]<br /> [/Hercules Hercules]<br /> [/Icarus Icarus]<br /> [http://the-moon.wikispaces.com/Isis Isis]<br /> [/Mercurius Mercurius]<br /> [http://the-moon.wikispaces.com/Osiris Osiris]<br /> <br /> <br />
==Additional Information==<br />
* The original lunar names taken from what we would today regard as mythology -- [/Atlas Atlas], [/Cepheus Cepheus], [/Endymion Endymion], [/Hercules Hercules] and [/Mercurius Mercurius] (together with the discontinued name [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermes Hermes]) -- were introduced by [/Riccioli Riccioli], who used them to label features near the Moon's northeast limb. Riccioli evidently felt these Greek legends, and the astronomical contributions attributed to them, derived from the lives of actual historic persons who [http://www.e-rara.ch/zut/content/pageview/194693 he placed] in the range 1580-1345 BC, no less real to him than [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroaster Zoroaster] (who Riccioli regarded as the first astronomer, placing him at 1990 BC, and after whom he also named a feature in this area). <span class="membersnap">- [http://www.wikispaces.com/user/view/JimMosher [[Image:JimMosher-lg.jpg|16px|JimMosher]]] [http://www.wikispaces.com/user/view/JimMosher JimMosher]</span><br />
* Mythological (and religious) figures are no longer an [http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/append6.html acceptable source] of names for IAU approval on the Moon, although the names [/Daedalus Daedalus] and [/Icarus Icarus] were added in [/Menzel%2C%201971 Menzel, 1971], presumably justified by the possibility that there was an historic basis to the legends.<br />
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