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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsSigns of Modern Astronomy Seen in Ancient Babylon
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I got this the other day but my computer is being a butthead and either locks up when I try to post or engages in some other form of passive aggressive computer buttheadedness Also, I am ADD and get easily sidetracked ... oh look, a squirrel
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/29/science/babylonians-clay-tablets-geometry-astronomy-jupiter.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0
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Ancient Babylonian astronomers calculated Jupiters position from the area under a time-velocity graph
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/351/6272/482
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(2,550 posts)Odin2005
(53,521 posts)They didn't have the technology we do to help with their observations, but they were just as smart as we are.
People like to think that the Ancient Greeks were great scientists, but that is far from the truth, in fact the Greeks were great plagiarists who picked and chose from Mesopotamian and Egyptian sources so much as those sources agreed with the narrowness of Greek scientific thought.
It is no accident that the Roman Imperial period was a time of scientific stagnation, a stagnation that only ended when the empire began to fall apart and the rising Medieval Middle-Eastern culture broke through.
Flaxbee
(13,661 posts)I love this sort of news. My mom did too; she'd have been so excited to hear about this ...