Byrd Wrote:
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> the Babylonians (who did use this method and
> were frankly the prime astronomers of the Levant)
> avidly studied the stars, made accurate tables,
> and used this information, constructing
> observatories and libraries for this information.
> We have no such artifacts that I'm aware of from
> Egypt. They made little effort to record the
> night sky to any great degree of accuracy --
> because, frankly, they had no real use for that
> knowledge beyond "here comes Sirius, so the yearly
> Flood starts shortly."
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As I said earlier in the thread, that's rather the impression I had.
A bit more information in the Wiki - [
en.wikipedia.org] - and here [
en.wikipedia.org]
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