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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 3040415, member: 57463&quot;]For one thing, they are two academic studies that even today are advanced importantly by amateurs. In this thread, I am keeping to Astronomy and Numismatics. Other sciences are commemorated and we can discuss Charles Darwin, Oswaldo Cruz, and many others in different threads, if you wish.&nbsp; Also, it is a judgment call as to whether Einstein, Newton, and others are merely &quot;astronomers&quot; or also &quot;physicists&quot; or &quot;mathematicians.&quot;&nbsp; But let us not split hairs...&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Astronomical Symbols on Ancient and Medieval Coins by Marshall Faintich; McFarland &amp; Co., 2008, 232 pages, $55.00</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Working with fellow student Bradford S. Wade, whom I met in “Ethics in Physics,” at Eastern Michigan University, I placed reviews of this book in <i>The Numismatist</i> (Vol 124 No. 1, January 2011),<i> The Mich-Matist</i> (Vol XLVI No. 4, Autumn 2010), <i>E-Sylum</i> (Volume 13, Number 45, November 7, 2010, Article 4), The Centinel (Vol. 58 No. 3, Fall 2010), <i>The Celator</i>, and the <i>Bulletin of the Society for the History of Astronomy</i> (Issue 21, Autumn 2011).&nbsp; They ran in a range; and as a consequence of our criticism, we exchanged some emails with the author who demanded retractions which we did not publish.&nbsp; We stand by our work – as he stands by his.&nbsp; This is science.&nbsp; Overall, the book is important and valuable.&nbsp; It does have its weak points.&nbsp; They do not detract from the major thesis: astronomical events appear recorded in the long history of coinage. (See the review on my blog here: <a href="https://necessaryfacts.blogspot.com/2012/06/astronomical-symbols-on-ancient-and.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://necessaryfacts.blogspot.com/2012/06/astronomical-symbols-on-ancient-and.html" rel="nofollow">https://necessaryfacts.blogspot.com/2012/06/astronomical-symbols-on-ancient-and.html</a></p><p>See Marshall Faintich&#039;s pages at &quot;Symbolic Messengers&quot;&nbsp; here <a href="http://www.faintich.net/primer.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.faintich.net/primer.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.faintich.net/primer.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>If you want to build a collection of astronomical events recorded on coins, this is a place to start.&nbsp; In the Ancients forum, you can find discussions of the Moon and Stars themes of Roman coins.&nbsp; It would be a prediction based on this book that the Septimus Severus and Julia Domna coins of 184-185 from Syria were purposely intended to record an actual event, a close passage in the morning sky of the Pleiades and the Moon.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]758751[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]758752[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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