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Paperback The Babylonian Theory of the Planets Book
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ISBN: 0691605505

ISBN13: 9780691605500

The Babylonian Theory of the Planets

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In the second millennium b.c., Babylonian scribes assembled a vast collection of astrological omens, believed to be signs from the gods concerning the kingdom's political, military, and agricultural fortunes. The importance of these omens was such that from the eighth or seventh until the first century, the scribes observed the heavens nightly and recorded the dates and locations of ominous phenomena of the moon and planets in relation to stars...

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