... in the sky noted by the Sumerians in perhaps 2000 BC Chinese constellation patterns, which are largely different from those used in Europe, may also date from that time, Babylonian tablets show that astronomers there were noting the positions of the moon and planets by 700 BC. The Babylonians also noted eclipses. The ancient Greeks carried forward ideas from the Babylonians ... ...

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