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Travelling in space is an issue which has arisen only in the last century, but the
desires were targeted against the sky since ancient times.
https://tallbloke.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/stonehenge.png
[source](https://tallbloke.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/stonehenge.png)
For almost 40,000 years, man has pursued astronomical phenomena, there are
bones that appear bookmarks with moon phases. Also we can say about the
calendars we use today that were originally [calendar Warren Field,](
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-23286928
) created about 10,000 years ago. Over 6,000 years, it has been changed
constantly, such that phases of the moon and the solar year to remain
synchronized. There are many other buildings of its kind worldwide, occurring
even before the first human civilization, showing how great was man's interest
for what is in the stars.
The last 25 years have radically changed the perception of prehistoric man in the
light of astronomical artifacts in various parts of the world. Even prehistoric man
have knowledge of mathematics and astronomy, various phenomena are
understood ever since. At that time, however, it is more appropriate to speak of
archaeoastronomy, which is rather treated symbolism and cultural
interpretations of astronomical phenomena encountered. The road to the stars
was imagined since about 15,000 years ago, according to some estimates,
through the "cosmic hunters". This concept is a series of myths that a hunted
animal, usually a bear or a moose, wounded, and after death, it reaches the sky
where the stars turn into forming Big Dipper quadrilateral. Sometimes people
"arrived" themselves between the stars, is usually associated with the two stars
forming the "handle" of the Big Dipper.
http://taotechingdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Big_Dipper_500.jpg
[source]( http://taotechingdaily.com/wp-
content/uploads/2014/01/Big_Dipper_500.jpg)
http://idp.bl.uk/4DCGI/education/astronomy/images/cometatlas.jpg
> Silk Atlas of Comets from the Hunan Provincial Museum
Source image taken from Album of Relics of Ancient Chinese
Astronomy, Zhongguo Gudai Tianwen Wenwu Tuji, CASS (Chinese
Academy of Social Sciences, Institute of Archaeology), 1980. Beijing
https://static2.playtech.ro/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/mecanismul-
antikythera.jpg
[source](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/66/NA
MA_Machine_d%27Anticythre_1.jpg/275px-
NAMA_Machine_d%27Anticythre_1.jpg)
> The Antikythera mechanism is one of the oldest mechanisms of designing, most
likely, the first analog computer in history, with an extremely complex design.
After several decades of research, historians have determined that the
mechanism was used to show the position of the Sun and Moon and planetary
motions in the sky. The mechanism could predict solar eclipses and moon.
https://static2.playtech.ro/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/mecanismul-
antikythera-2.jpg
[source]( https://static2.playtech.ro/wp-
content/uploads/2016/12/mecanismul-antikythera-2.jpg )
# Stonehenge
The road to the stars will materialize only millennia later, but that does not mean
the ancient prehistoric man never dreamed the sky, space travel. Since the
cosmic myth hunters it could get the idea of a man in space, long before the
invention of writing or other sciences.
In fact, astronomy is the oldest of the natural sciences. By the first attempts to fly
in space we should first be away from the ground, and it will take some time.
However, it is to discover the progress made since the medieval period in the
field of astronomy, and we talk about that in the next post.
### Reference
- [The Significance of the Big Dipper](http://taotechingdaily.com/the-
significance-of-the-big-dipper-aka-the-big-clock-in-the-sky/)
- [The Chinese Sky](
http://idp.bl.uk/4DCGI/education/astro
nomy/sky.html)
- [Chinese and Babylonian Observations](http://www.observadores-
cometas.com/Star_of_Bethlehem/English/Chinese.htm)