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*grins*
And here I just thought I'd learned something interesting. Hmmm. Well, first of all I was just surfing the web and passing on what I found. Analysing it wasn't quite what I'd intended, but for those obviously interested - at least you got to pass some time. 
For those in doubt (although I actually thought it was pretty obvious) - I'm neither a classicist nor do I have the faintest idea about the Greek language.
Yes, amazingly enough I did notice there is no "e" in astronomy, for that matter there is no "os" either. The word comes from (through who knows how many links, greek, latin, whatever), not spells like it. I'd have thought there was a difference, but I guess that was just me.
What I so loosely interpreted was the ancient Greek in 'The schemata of the stars (Peri ton schematon ton asteron); Byzantine astronomy from A.D. 1300. World Scientific, 1998. And "'Daemonolgie' by King James VI of Scotland, I of England", 1597, Bodleian Library, Oxford - quote: "(...)which for that cause is called Astronomia, which word is a compound of (nomos) and (asteron) that is to say, the law of the stars(...)" end quote.
Anyway, for what it's worth it's quite fun to see you all digging away in your sources. And I bow to whatever you say regarding this topic. I can't promise I'll remember any of it tomorrow, though. |
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