ANCIENT HISTORY KIDINNU BABYLONIAN ASTRONOMY CIDENAS FAMOUS BABYLONIAN ASTRONOMER ASTRONOMY TABLET ECLIPSES DEATH KING XERXES THE GREEK GEOGRAPHER STRABO AMASIA DESCRIPTION THE LIFE BABYLONIAN ASTRONOMERS BABYLON SETTLEMENT SET APART THE LOCAL CONCERNED WRITERS HOROSCOPES TRIBE TERRITORY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD THE ARABS THE PERSIAN GULF AS IT TRIBES SOME ARE DIVIDED HOLD DOGMAS MATHEMATICIANS MENTION THESE MEN SUDINES GEOGRAPHY TEMPLE IN FACT ENMA ANU ENLIL OBSERVING SKIES CENTURIES OBSERVATIONS ASTRONOMICAL DIARIES STARS VENUS WRITTEN DOWN UNDER KING AMMISADUQA THE MIDDLE STELLAR THE EIGHTH ZODIAC INVENTED THE SEVENTH FIRST CENTURY BCE DATA AVAILABLE RESULTS PRETTY ACCURATE EXAMPLE LENGTH SYNODIC MONTH PERIOD FULL ABLE ERROR COUPLE PREDICTIONS PREDICT LUNAR ECLIPSES SOLAR ECLIPSES FAIR TOOL MONTHS LUNAR THEMSELVES YOU KNOW SOLAR ECLIPSE 18 MAY AT DAWN YOU CAN CONFIDENT ALMOST SIMILAR ECLIPSE AT SUNSET IMPORTANCE EXAGGERATED ASSYRIANS BABYLONIANS EVIL POSSIBLE SUBSTITUTE KINGS BEAR BRUNT THE REAL CONTINUITY POLICY POOR MAN THE OMEN ALWAYS CALENDAR THE OBSERVATIONS NEARLY PERFECT REIGN ASTRONOMERS LUNAR MONTHS IDENTICAL SOLAR YEARS DIFFERENCE SEVEN NINETEEN OUGHT TO LEAP YEARS EXTRA ANNOUNCED THE KING ADVISER CAPTURED THE PERSIAN KING CYRUS OFFICIALS LOOK STANDARD PROCEDURE INTERCALATION 503 BCE DARIUS I THE GREAT TABLE MONTH ONE YEAR ULULU FIRST DAY THE MONTH NISANU NEVER VERNAL EQUINOX CIVIL CALENDAR THE SEASONS SYSTEM THE CYCLE ASTRONOMER IN THE WEST JEWISH CALENDAR FUTURE POSITIONS THE PLANETS UNKNOWN MOMENT THE FOURTH CYCLE LIMITS VARIABILITY START THE YEAR MUST ALREADY MACEDONIAN CONQUEROR ALEXANDER THE GREAT SCIENTIFIC CALLISTHENES OF OLYNTHUS TRANSLATED TRANSLATIONS LATE GREEK SIMPLICIUS THE TRUTH TRANSLATES GREEK KEEPS THE DOUBLE MEANING STORY IBN KHALDUN IMMEDIATELY THE ASTRONOMER CALLIPPUS OF CYZICUS PUPIL THE PHILOSOPHER ARISTOTLE OF STAGIRA LUNAR MONTH NEW CALENDAR LONGER AT 28 EIGHT THE CAPTURE CALENDAR REFORM THE WORK SEEN REACHED ESTIMATES SOLAR YEAR NECESSARY HARD ON THE OTHER HAND SOMEONE DISCOVERED THINKING THE CALENDAR DISCOVERY SCHOLION HANDY TABLES PTOLEMY OF ALEXANDRIA SCHOLIAST ANOMALISTIC MONTH MOMENTS THE MOON TO THE EARTH SHOWS SKILL WITH THE NAKED EYE SOMETIMES CLOSER THE DISTANCE KILOMETERS DIAMETER THE ROMAN AUTHOR PLINY THE ELDER KNOWS THE STAR MEANS MAGNITUDE TRAVELS REVOLUTION NINE DAYS SHINING BEFORE SUNRISE SOSIGENES AWAY FROM THE SUN NATURAL HISTORY GREATEST THE SYSTEM MOTION MODERN SCHOLARS CALL THE LAST FIFTH CENTURY MOVE SEEMS AS IF TIMES TO GO EXPLANATION ELLIPTIC SHAPE OF THE MOON MOVES FASTER TRIED DESCRIBE ROMAN EVER FIRST SYSTEM CONSTANT IDEA CONSTANT MOTION WE DO REFINEMENT VELOCITY CHANGES FUNCTION STEPS MINIMUM MAXIMUM SPEED FROM NOW ON LUNAR PHASES MOVEMENTS THE SUN THE FIVE PLANETS MARDUK PROBABLY COINCIDENCE ATTRIBUTED SLOW CERTAINLY THE POSITION DISCOVER THE STARS SEEM ROTATE POLE STAR THE NORTH POLE HEAVEN THE LITTLE DAYS LEGENDARY KING HAMMURABI AXIS POINT INSIDE THE DRAGON THE AXIS THE EARTH CHANGING REALLY CONCLUSION THEORY PRECESSION HIPPARCHUS OF NICAEA UNDERSTAND NATURE MATTER MADE IN TEXT THE COMET INDEED THE INVENTOR LIVED CUNEIFORM CHRONICLE ALEXANDER CHRONICLE RECENTLY KING DARIUS CODOMANNUS PUT TO THE SWORD FAMILIAL PROFESSIONAL BABYLONIAN CHRONICLES WRITTEN BY SCRIBES THINK FELL SCIENCE POLICY IDENTIFICATION OLD MAN THE TRANSLATION OF WORK CONNECT HYPOTHESIS FACT BABYLONIAN ASTRONOMICAL RESIST CERTAIN TRANSLATION ASTROLOGER ACCEPTED VALUES EQUATION LITERATURE BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO ASGER AABOE VOLUME CAMBRIDGE ANCIENT HISTORY CHAPTER BABYLONIAN MATHEMATICS ASTROLOGY AND ASTRONOMY HERMANN HUNGER DAVID PINGREE ASTRAL SCIENCES LESS ACCESSIBLE OFFERS WEALTH PAGE LAST PERSON DONATE SUPPORT LIVIUS INDEX PICTURES SOURCES LANGUAGES CATEGORIES TAGS CONTACT CONTENT COPYRIGHT ALL RIGHTS RESERVED