Chiera's They Wrote On Clay
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...Without Proper Attribution to as a Souonding to an angle of about 2 or 2.5 degrees and a finger to one twenty-fourth of this amount. The Babylonian knowledge and use of astronomy was also far advanced to what was known by other cultures of the time. They observed and noted solar and lunar eclipses, as well as tracked the path of objects through the sky. they were confident in their calculations - so much so that "part of ancient chronology has been fixed without fear of mistake" (157). The Babylonians were once thought to be extremely superstitious and were interested in astronomy primarily for the purpose of divination. The study of astronomy eventually continued because of the development of scientific interest in the mathematical description of periodic phenomena. Babylonians began each month with the first visibility of the young crescent moon in the western sky some twenty-four hours after new moon. Their day therefore began in the evening rather than at midnight. ... The Babylonian month had either twenty-nine or thirty days, depending on whether or not the crescent moon was sighted at the close of the twenty-ninth day. Night after night in each month, the...
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