[HN Gopher] No one could see the colour blue until modern times
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       No one could see the colour blue until modern times
        
       Author : lend000
       Score  : 7 points
       Date   : 2021-07-11 20:11 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.businessinsider.com.au)
        
       | gumboshoes wrote:
       | The headline is rubbish. They saw it, they just didn't call it
       | something different. They lumped it in with green or other
       | colors.
        
       | duped wrote:
       | I've heard this theory many times and have many questions about
       | it, but I'm not a scholar of antiquity.
       | 
       | How do we know the Egyptians had a word for blue, if the Greeks
       | didn't?
       | 
       | What did everyone call the dyes and carvings made Lapis Lazuli?
       | And what about dyes produced from woad and indigo?
       | 
       | How did people describe the color of sapphires?
        
       | ohiovr wrote:
       | Not clicking. Complete BS. Blue Appears 50 times in the Bible. I
       | presume that came before the invention of clickbait.
        
         | undershirt wrote:
         | Yeah, blue doesn't seem to appear in the New Testament (Greek),
         | but it's in the Old (Hebrew) as "Tekhelet"[1] which can apply
         | across different blue hues, from turquoise to violet.
         | 
         | [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tekhelet
        
         | kadoban wrote:
         | Without considering what word was _actually_ in the Bible and
         | what its translation(s) are, that's not a very convincing
         | debunking.
        
       | Andrew_nenakhov wrote:
       | They definitely did see the blue color, just like we do. Imagine
       | all the named CSS colors: most people can clearly see the
       | difference between them, even if they don't know the correct
       | color name.
       | 
       | Also, the argument that 'they didn't have the name for this
       | color' is flimsy: maybe they had the name, we just don't know it.
        
       | mat0 wrote:
       | Man HN is getting some low quality articles lately. This one, the
       | CEO that got bored and used his telescope to spy on people. What
       | is going on?
        
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