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Ancient Babylonians Geometrically Traced the Path of Jupiter
For millenia upon millenia, humans knew that certain objects in the sky moved while other stars stood still. These are the objects we now know as planets. But precise calculations on their movements remains a fuzzy area of history. But a new clay tablet from ancient Babylonia shows that they may have used advanced geometrical techniques somewhere between 350 BCE or 50 BCE, pushing back the "discovery" of these principles back as far as 1750 years.
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