Sometimes I dream about traveling in time (even for a moment) to ancient Greece.
While imagining it, I try to feel what the ancient Greeks felt when watching the moon and night cosmic sphere. The ancients’ knowledge was lower than ours. In many respects, they told each other many stories, observing the world (this is how Greek myths and their beliefs were created). The fact is that I can imagine ancient people looking into the dark, starry night and developing stories about surrounding all of us Universe.
Let’s take one of the examples – the Moon. It is the only heavenly body whose surface can be seen with the naked eye from Earth. It still inspires and fascinates modern humans in the same way as it did to ancient people. I would like to feel this primal admiration for the sky, which was then one great mystery for man. Of course, it is so until now. Still, we already know that the Moon is a natural satellite of the Earth.
Moreover, we’ve even been to the Moon already!
Hence the magic and mystery of this object are not as mystical as it was in ancient times. I would just like to feel this primal admiration for the surrounding us, the mysterious world. That’s why I love to read about the Universe, Solar System, other planets, Moon, etc. For today, my favorite books about the exploration of Space are Norman Mailer’s “Moonfire” (Taschen), “Expanding Universe” (Taschen), and Mark Holborn’s “Sun and Moon” (Phaidon). I know that it is only a matter of time when I buy the next books to read about the Cosmos. If I cannot travel into space, I can solely focus on reading books about the Universe. I am curious about everything that surrounds our planet in the same way as ancient people were curious while observing and analyzing the night sky.
