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Why do most stars have Arabic names?
Brandon Martin
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Mason Morris
Cause we got their names from Arabs?
Connor Gonzalez
there is an infinite number of stars anyway
Andrew Moore
Mostly because they were named a long time ago so its either Latin or Arabic.
Aiden Butler
>Why do most stars have Arabic names?
Most stars have Greek or Latin names.
Not that many, by comparison, come from Arabic.
Lucas Allen
Actually most stars have serial numbers for names.
Jack James
Because muslims went on a mad astronomy streak in the 800s. Al-Mamoun even went in person to astronomers' experiment displays.
Jaxson Roberts
Ptolemy's Almagest had a mix of Latin, Greek and Arabic names. Arabs were big in astronomy and so they had a lot of star maps. The Almagest and other star map books got spread around Europe and those names stuck.
Hunter Anderson
They were the first ones to get there.
Nicholas Perez
There's an interesting reason why the Arabs got so good at astronomy and early navigation.
When you pray, you have to face Mecca, so when the Arabs expanded their empire, the first thing they did was figure out the relative location of Mecca or the purposes of prayer. Land survey tools weren't as reliable, so they turned to Astronomy to figure out which way Mecca is.