Damn... BB it took you 2 days to copy the Enclyopedia... it so improves your spelling
Ok... shoot me I could
not resist that. I couldn't.. I'm sorry, sorry, sorry. I still believe you are brilliant BB...
All of Ptolemy's pontificating, while brilliant, was in fact erroneous. History bears this.
When Copernicus created his model of a universe that revolved around the Sun, he did not live to see his treatise accepted and the first mention of a heliocentric model actually shows up in vedic skanskit writings which are the oldest known writings and traces of this are found throughout history.
I agree that we are in a mega cycle, that said it does not affect what the ancients considered the 33rd lat. Nor does that Ptolemy's incorrect information have any bearing on whether or not the Phoenician's knew and used that model. There is too much evidence (ok, here I go outside the status quo), that an ancient people used the 33rd to find their way around, and to find home, 2000 yrs ago. Ancient copper mining in Michigan shows someone was there... and that they left.
Precession considers and calculates the wobble.
I just know I'm going to regret this... makes ya' go hmmmm...
(ducking)
Janiece