New findings suggest the astronomers of ancient Babylon developed geometry-based astronomy 1400 years earlier than previously thought. This discovery rewrites the timeline of what we thought ancient peoples knew about how to measure distance in the heavens.
from ExtremeTech http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/222163-newly-discovered-babylonian-tablets-just-rewrote-the-history-of-astronomy
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