The globe continues to make many discoveries thanks to the library of St. Catherine’s Monastery, as of October 27, 2022, in Cairo.
Secrets from ancient times are revealed by manuscripts in the library that have lately undergone digital processing. The multispectral imaging of the Codex of Tyros and subsequent deciphering of the Codex of St. have provided fresh proof of the validity of the lost Star Catalog of the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus.
According to a British study led by the British astronomy expert Peter Williams, Catherine’s Monastery, which is hundreds of years old, has made significant progress in helping to reconstruct the Hipparchus catalogue.
A manuscript found in St. Catherine’s Monastery asserts that the Star Catalog was originally based on equatorial coordinates, and that the Star Catalog of Ptolemy was not based solely on data from the catalog of Hipparchus.
The index of Hipparchus is far more exact than that of his successor Claudius Ptolemy since the numerical proof provided in the text corresponds to the true precision by one degree from the true star coordinates.
Although there is little proof of Hipparchus’ contents, the lost Star Catalog of Hipparchus is best known in the history of science as the first known attempt to record the precise coordinates of several celestial bodies visible with the naked eye.
The ancient Greek book known as Codex Climaci Rescriptus is housed in St. Catherine’s Monastery, where calligrapher Peter Williams first detected the existence of astronomical measurements for the year 2021. The new finding was established by the multispectral portrayal of this document. The oldest papers in this text date to the fifth or sixth century, in fact.
The first component of the study, which was published in the Sage Journal, demonstrates the extension of the planets by giving each one a value in degrees and coordinates. The second section names the stars and repeats their maximum coordinates, so it seems likely that the numeric data in the first section was originally derived from the coordinates in the second section..
Scientists find the oldest missing star catalogue at St. Catherine’s Monastery, only in Egypt.
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