Who designed the Zodiac system?

Question

EG Aries, Gemini etc

Answer 1

Though expounded upon by other cultures and nations, it was originally designed by T. Subba Rao, Theosophist -1881. The invention of the Zodiac and it's signs owes it's origins to ancient India.

Answer 2

First, don't make the mistake of allowing your Sun Sign to limit you and your desires. My father was a Pisces and one of the most strongest men I've ever known emotionally. Many bad things happened to him in his life and he never quit. A lot of people think that being strong means that you never get knocked down but real strength is measured by your ability to get up again when life knocks you down. You're only defeated when you don't get up. Second, if you already picture in your mind a future like the one that you described, then it has a strong likelihood of coming true. Confidence is something that a person can develop. Don't say that you'll never have it because you're a Pisces. But to get it, you need to be willing to take chances and, yes, to get hurt sometimes, rejected sometimes, but know inside that you'll always survive it. So the next time you see that pretty girl and she looks sad, say "Hi. I don't want you to get the wrong idea but is everything all right?" She might brush you off or she might want to talk to you. Either way, you can pat yourself on the back because you took that first step. Third, you're right - life is often hard to understand. Especially when you're young and you're looking around and it seems that nice guys finish last and the good looking girls are always falling for the wrong kind of guys. But that's because they're young too and attracted to all the wrong things in a man - how cool he looks or talks or acts. When women mature (some, like men, never do but many will), they will appreciate love and caring and someone who treats them with respect because Mr. Cool didn't do any of that. In the meantime, think of the next few years as a period of transformation for yourself. Now is the time to learn and make mistakes (not irreversible ones, okay?) and define who you are. The main thing is that you become a person that YOU like. Once that happens, it's amazing how many people you'll find that like you back. That's what confidence really is after all.

Answer 3

Most of today´s twelve Zodiac signs were already used by the Babylonians since about 1000 or 700 before Christ. My book recommendation: B.L.van der Waerden: Awakening Science, Volume 2.

Answer 4

Indo-European cultures developed a zodiac based on the ecliptic which is the path of the Sun independent of Earth's rotation, so that it is visible as the position of the Sun as seen at the same time each day. Eventually, "ancient astronomers" (Powell 2004) divided those constellations into twelve equal zones of celestial longitude to create the first known celestial coordinate system: a coordinate system that boasts some advantages over modern systems (such as equatorial coordinate system or ecliptic coordinate system). The zodiac is also understood as a region of the celestial sphere that includes a band of eight arc degrees above and below the ecliptic, and therefore encompasses the paths of the Moon and the naked eye planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn). The classical astronomers called these planets wandering stars to differentiate them from the fixed stars of the celestial sphere (Ptolemy).

Strictly speaking, the eventual culmination of the Indo-European zodiac (originating with Babylonian, Greek, and Indian astronomers) includes signs (also constellations) that are not all represented by animals (e.g., Libra, Virgo, Gemini). However, the term probably derives from earlier conceptions of the constellations along the ecliptic as sculpted animals. As with the Chinese zodiac, Indo-European astrologers understand the movement of the planets and the Sun through the zodiac as a method to explain and predict events on Earth.

The zodiac symbols used in Western Astrology are early modern simplifications of conventional pictorial representations of the signs, attested since Hellenistic times. The characters are encoded in unicode at positions U+2648 to U+2653 (hexadecimal numbers): Aries ♈, Taurus ♉, Gemini ♊, Cancer ♋, Leo ♌, Virgo ♍, Libra ♎, Scorpio ♏, Sagittarius ♐, Capricorn ♑, Aquarius ♒, Pisces ♓. The glyph representation of these characters will depend on the font in which they are displayed.


Zodiac celestial coordinate systems
For any spherical celestial coordinate system one needs to define an equatorial plane and designate an origin for longitude. From these definitions longitudinal meridians perpendicular to the equatorial plane meet at the north and south poles of the celestial sphere and one can precisely specify a unique position on the sphere.

First, the zodiac coordinate system designates the ecliptic as the equatorial plane. One should not confuse the zodiac's equatorial plane with the Earth's equator which is so named because it serves as the equatorial plane for our terrestrial coordinate system. Instead the ecliptic is aligned with the Earth's orbital plane with the Sun. The Earth tilts at an angle of approximately 23° with respect to the orbital plane. This tilt is partly due to the Earth's precession as it gyrates and rotates on its axis. It contributes to the divergence between a tropical year and a sidereal year and thus contributes to the precession of the equinoxes which marks the difference between tropical and sidereal celestial coordinate systems.

Second, a system of coordinates must normally specify an origin (0° point) for longitude. However, the zodiac system names twelve equal regions (called signs) and technically any sign can serve as the beginning or the end of the sphere's precession. However, the system further divides each sign into thirty degree units. One reason this system of coordinates was particularly useful in antiquity is that writing large numbers was difficult before the introduction of arabic numbers. The zodiac system of coordinates kept every number below ninety (the highest value for zodiac latitudes). Since the constellations along the ecliptic varied in size, defining 12 equal signs of 30° each did require an arbitrary assignment of boundaries roughly corresponding to the ecliptic constellations

It is believed many of the classical astronomers specified zodiac signs using two bright stars near the ecliptic and opposite each other to serve as equatorial nodes or poles (not longitudinal poles): Aldebaran and Antares in the constellations Taurus and Scorpius respectively. These stars served rather well because not only were they on opposites sides of the ecliptic, but they also fell very near the center of their constellations and were therefore designated as Taurus 15 and Scorpius 15, meaning the middle 15° points within those signs.

Answer 5

The ancient persians. (chaldeans). Now it is called Iran and they are designing A bombs.

Answer 6

not sure. must be the chinese