Babylonian astronomy
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Babylonian astronomy was the study or recording of celestial objects during the early history of Mesopotamia. The numeral system used, sexagesimal, was based on 60, as opposed to ten in the modern dec
A Babylonian tablet recording Halley's Comet in 164 BC
Mul.apin cuneiform tablet
Babylonian star catalogues
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Babylonian astronomy collated earlier observations and divinations into sets of Babylonian star catalogues, during and after the Kassite rule over Babylonia. These star catalogues, written in cuneifor
Babylonian astronomy
…They are made up of the division of the sky into three sets of thirty degrees and the constellations that inhabit each sector. The MUL.APIN contains catalogues of stars and constellations as well as schemes for predicting heliacal risings and settings of the planets, and lengths of daylight as measured by a water clock, gnomon, shadows…
Star list with distance information, Uruk (Iraq), 3200-1500 BC, the list gives each constellation, the number of stars and the distance information to the next constellation in ells.