Show GREAT phenomenon dally daily journey of the sun puzzled the ancients many erroneous Theor theories leg strange as it may seem in this day and age the rising and setting of the sun slin was the greatest of natural phenomena to the ancient scholars they were greatly puzzled to know how bow the same sun which plunged into the ocean at a fabulous distance in the west could reappear the next morning qt at an equally y great distance in the east and as gir ir robert ball points out a number of markn ark ble theories were advance 1 A 1 every one of them wrong the a mythology asserted that after the un had dipped in the western ocean i sunset the iberians Ibe rians and other an jent ent nations actually imagined that hey could hear the hissing of the raters aters when the glowing globe lobe was plunged therein he be was seized b by vulan and placed in a golden goblet this craft with its astonishing caro 0 10 navigated the ocean by a northerly ourse arse so as to reach the cast again a ume time for sunrise the following morn ng among the more sober physicists f old as we ve ate are told by aristotle it was believed that atiat in some manner the un was conveyed by night across the northern regions and that darkness vas as due to lofty mountains which keened cre re ened off the sunbeams during the boyage another theory was that the un tin actually pursued his course below lie be solid earth during the darkness of night and philosophers taught the wine i ine about the stars that rose and set these chese are but samples of many a theory that might be named with begard regard to the phenomenon of sunrise senri ze and sunset |