advance Ancient astronomy ?

what effect will have Astronomical observatory records from south hemisphere on old world astronomy , ancient Greek and chines astronomy?
 
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Well, it's possible that northern hemispherers actually saw southern skies IOTL. But it would be probably dismissed as "fancy tales and nonsense" as a good bunch of the too incredible stuff that most Greeks scholars couldn't deal with, as tides or circumnavigation.
 
In my opinion the Greeks, especially the later ones and certainly by Roman times were probably well aware that there would be different stars in the southern sky. I'm just not sure they cared.

They knew the world was round so being able to see different stars the further south you go makes sense especially if you think the stars are stationary points. I just don't think it every really impacted their understanding of the universe.
 
Maybe indian traders states or malays, the later may have crossed to southern hemisphere for trade with Torres Strait people and so on... not sure.
 
what effect will have Astronomical observatory records from south hemisphere on old world astronomy , ancient Greek and chines astronomy?

Your title says 'advance Astronomy', but simply knowing southern skies isnt going to advance it much, I would have thought.

Did you have anything in particular in mind?
 
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