Ancient Gods and Falling Stars

from The Storyteller's Night Sky · host Mary Stewart Adams

Claudius Ptolemy is credited with describing how the gods caused the stars to fall because, out of curiosity or boredom, they occasionally peered down at the Earth from between the planetary spheres, and the stars could slip through the gaps.

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