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Is Atlas Holding Hipparchus' Lost Star Map?

Posted by timothy on Monday January 17, 2005 @09:02PM from the that's-pretty-weighty dept.

cr0kin0le writes "The Farnese Atlas at the Naples National Archaeological Museum may be holding a celestial globe which accurately depicts the long-lost star catalog of Hipparchus, according to a physics professor at Louisiana State University."

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Re:What's up with the modified statue? by superyooser · 2005-01-17 23:08 · Score: 1, Flamebait

The body is not shameful. However, it is shameful for a person to expose his/her body to those who do not have the exclusive marital privilege of seeing it. A naked statue is a model of whorish disrespect for the inherent intimacy and sexuality of the body.