Egyptian Astronomy - Paperback

At the beginning of time, when man was intelligent enough to observe the movements of the points of light in the sky, he paid close attention to what was happening up there. Reflection came to him and he meditated on various accurate influences, such as the Sun during the day, and the Moon at night, which regularly changed shape. He soon became convinced that the other points of light, although infinitely smaller, were similar cases. This took thousands of years, of course, which we must admit from the outset in order to better understand the mechanism.