# Ancient calendars and constellations

Author: Plunket, Emmeline M. (Emmeline Mary), 1835-

Genre: Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70052

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## Summary

Epping and Strassmaier, in their book _Astronomisches aus Babylon_, have lately translated three small documents, originally inscribed on clay tablets in the second century B.C. From these tablets, we learn that the Babylonians of the above date possessed a very advanced knowledge of the science of astronomy. Into the question of the extent of that knowledge we need not here enter further than to say that it enabled the Babylonian astronomers to draw up almanacs for the ensuing year; almanacs in which the eclipses of the sun and moon, and the times of the new and full moon, were accurately noted, as also the positions of the planets throughout the year. These positions were indicated by t...

## Chapters

- [PART I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ancient-calendars-and-constellations-70052/chapters/3/index.md)
- [PART II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ancient-calendars-and-constellations-70052/chapters/4/index.md)
- [PART II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ancient-calendars-and-constellations-70052/chapters/2/index.md)
- [PART I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/ancient-calendars-and-constellations-70052/chapters/1/index.md)