Astronomical records from Ancient Babylon |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ, United States;2. Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, United States;3. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States;4. American University, Washington, DC, United States;5. Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States;6. Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD, United States;7. Pinhead Institute, Telluride, CO, United States;8. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States;9. SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA, United States;10. Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Washington, DC, United States;11. Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Paris, France;12. Florida Space Institute, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, United States;13. Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), La Laguna, Spain |
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| Abstract: | Because of its calendrical and prognosticatory significance astronomical observation was assiduously practised in many of the ancient civilisations. Of the surviving records by far the greatest number are from Babylon, covering effectively the period 731 BC-AD 75, but it is only comparatively recently that these have been systematically deciphered and interpreted. Apart from their great historic interest, the remarkable accuracy of many of the observations makes them of value to modern astronomers, in such contexts as the variation in length of the mean solar day. |
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