Stefanie’s Reviews > Our Moon: How Earth's Celestial Companion Transformed the Planet, Guided Evolution, and Made Us Who We Are > Status Update
Stefanie
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Just finished a chapter that reminded me how this dude Ptolemy developed an intricate and WRONG theory of planetary movement in like 100 CE…and it didn’t get corrected for a full-on *millennium and a half*. (Shoutout Copernicus, Galileo, and an unassuming British dude, Thomas Harriot!)
I know it’s a misnomer, but this has got to be a huge contributor to why we called it “the Dark Ages.”
— Aug 17, 2025 08:56PM
I know it’s a misnomer, but this has got to be a huge contributor to why we called it “the Dark Ages.”
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Stefanie
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More interested in the Sumerian and Babylonian dynastic history in this last chapter than the Moon worship, but ok!
— Aug 14, 2025 08:47PM
Stefanie
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Very cool to learn about the Nebra Sky Disk, which I’ve heard mentioned but never knew about. Another Moon as timekeeping device from a culture in what’s now Germany that predates Babylon.
— Aug 14, 2025 07:07PM
Stefanie
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Chapter 5 introduces the idea that ancient peoples who lived where Scotland is now figured out how to do future time reckoning using the Moon - 10,000 years ago. 😳
— Aug 12, 2025 09:03PM
Stefanie
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Already have learned so much about the Moon I didn't know!
— Aug 09, 2025 05:14PM
