I’m not sure I understand your question. First you’re talking about our solar system and then you are talking about the Milky Way. I don’t think anyone "discovered" our sun. When man looked up in the sky, it was already there…it has always been there. Ascertaining its characteristics is a knowledge that has evolved over time (and technically is still theory since no one has been to the sun). Our sun and the solar system is a tiny, tiny corner at the edge of the Milky Way galaxy. I hope this answers your question. References :
understanding is more along the lines of what you’re looking for.
its always been there. you could say bacteria discovered the sun since they are alive (not aware though) and utlize its energy to create energy for the bactieria.
anything with eyes "discovered the sun"
(milkyway is confusing too)
"One of the first people to offer a scientific, or philosophical explanation for the Sun, was the Greek philosopher Anaxagoras, who reasoned that it was a giant flaming ball of metal even larger than the Peloponnesus, and not the chariot of Helios"
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Not sure I understand your question. But before Copernicus there was no concept of the a solar system. People believed the earth was fixed and the Sun, Moon and stars revolved around the earth. So Copernicus discovered that Earth was a part of a sun-centric solar system instead of the center of the Universe. It was Galileo that discovered that the Milky Way was made up of Stars. Later Immanuel Kant postulated the milky way was our own spiral galaxy seen on edge from our place on one of the galactic arms. References :
The Greeks, Chinese, Sumerians/Babylonians, Mayans, Indian (both occidental – Native American and oriental) and other civilization were ALL aware that particular "stars" wandered and were not fixed. These wandering stars were the planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. These civilizations had a concept of a solar system long before Copernicus or Ptolemy, because we have records of their astronomical observations, usually made by priest class of those societies. Uranus was charted several times by Hipparchus, but he never realized it was planet because it moves so slowly compared to Saturn. Uranus takes 84 years to make one orbit around the sun; Saturn’s orbit is only a little more than 30 years.
Anything with chlorophyll or with eyes is aware of the sun in some way. References : Astronomy magazine
October 10th, 2009 at 10:50 am
The first human being.
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October 10th, 2009 at 11:40 am
I’m not sure I understand your question. First you’re talking about our solar system and then you are talking about the Milky Way. I don’t think anyone "discovered" our sun. When man looked up in the sky, it was already there…it has always been there. Ascertaining its characteristics is a knowledge that has evolved over time (and technically is still theory since no one has been to the sun). Our sun and the solar system is a tiny, tiny corner at the edge of the Milky Way galaxy. I hope this answers your question.
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October 10th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
discovered is the wrong term
understanding is more along the lines of what you’re looking for.
its always been there. you could say bacteria discovered the sun since they are alive (not aware though) and utlize its energy to create energy for the bactieria.
anything with eyes "discovered the sun"
(milkyway is confusing too)
"One of the first people to offer a scientific, or philosophical explanation for the Sun, was the Greek philosopher Anaxagoras, who reasoned that it was a giant flaming ball of metal even larger than the Peloponnesus, and not the chariot of Helios"
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October 10th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Not sure I understand your question. But before Copernicus there was no concept of the a solar system. People believed the earth was fixed and the Sun, Moon and stars revolved around the earth. So Copernicus discovered that Earth was a part of a sun-centric solar system instead of the center of the Universe. It was Galileo that discovered that the Milky Way was made up of Stars. Later Immanuel Kant postulated the milky way was our own spiral galaxy seen on edge from our place on one of the galactic arms.
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October 10th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
That is an impossible question to answer. People have seen the Sun throughout the time there have been people.
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October 10th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
The Greeks, Chinese, Sumerians/Babylonians, Mayans, Indian (both occidental – Native American and oriental) and other civilization were ALL aware that particular "stars" wandered and were not fixed. These wandering stars were the planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. These civilizations had a concept of a solar system long before Copernicus or Ptolemy, because we have records of their astronomical observations, usually made by priest class of those societies. Uranus was charted several times by Hipparchus, but he never realized it was planet because it moves so slowly compared to Saturn. Uranus takes 84 years to make one orbit around the sun; Saturn’s orbit is only a little more than 30 years.
Anything with chlorophyll or with eyes is aware of the sun in some way.
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Astronomy magazine
B.A. with honors in history (of science)
October 10th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Ajara, king of Atlantis, 124398 BC.
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