Anonymous ID: f141c1 Nov. 23, 2021, 9:32 a.m. No.15064474   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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How did the Maori know Saturn has rings?

 

"Can you see the rings of Saturn with your naked eye, or even with binoculars? It seems impossible (I certainly cannot, nor do I know of anyone who claims to be able to do so). Modern awareness of Saturn's rings did not come about until well after Galileo (Galileo did observe Saturn and the rings in 1610 with his telescope, but not well enough to know what they were – the world would have to wait another forty-five years before Christiaan Huygens described the rings as a disk around the planet in 1655).

 

However, there is evidence that the Maori of Aotearoa (New Zealand) were aware of the rings around Saturn. In The Astronomical Knowledge of the Maori, Genuine and Empirical, published by Elsdon Best in Wellington, NZ in 1922, there is preserved a host of accounts from the Maori themselves of their star-lore and planet-lore."

 

https://www.starmythworld.com/mathisencorollary/2013/03/how-did-maori-know-saturn-has-rings.html