Babylonians used geometry to track Jupiter’s movements
Advanced sky-watching calculations came long before Europeans did the same thing
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ROSETTA TABLET A cuneiform tablet, slightly smaller than a standard sticky note, housed in the British Museum provided an unexpected key to understanding how ancient Babylonians pioneered the use of abstract geometric spaces to understand planetary motion.
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