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Kako vemo, da so stari Slovani poznali gnomone?

Authors

  • Andrej Pleterski

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3986/SMS20222514

Keywords:

stari Slovani, astronomija, gnomon

Abstract

Upright pillars are also part of the mythical landscape of the ancient Slavs. The fact that a column was used as a gnomon can be inferred from the existence of the effects of its action found in the landscape: the cardinal directions, the azimuths of sunrise and sunset significant for the date, an angle corresponding to the obliquity of the ecliptic. The alleged circular argument that triangles define an angle and the same angle defines the same triangles is a Bilić construct and mathematically impossible, since we cannot define a triangle with only one angle. However, even if the astronomical knowledge of the ancient Slavs in the present were really justified by a purely circular argument (which is not the case), it does not mean that the ancient Slavs had no astronomical knowledge.

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2022-10-12

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Pleterski, A. (2022). Kako vemo, da so stari Slovani poznali gnomone?. Studia Mythologica Slavica, 25. https://doi.org/10.3986/SMS20222514

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RAZVOJ RAZISKOVALNIH METOD IN DISKUSIJA / DEVELOPMENT OF RESEARCH METHODS AND DISCUSSION