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Babylonia as the origin of astronomy (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Astronomical and astrological texts 05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore 05.01 Astrological and astronomical knowledge and theories 05.01.10 Astronomical and astrological texts	Keywords astrology astronomy Berossus Mesopotamia omens stars
Period 3rd century BCE Hellenistic Empires	Channel Hellenistic philosophers and scholars

Text
Berossus, Babyloniaca F17:
Therefore, we, as followers of the teachings of the divine Ptolemy, have had the courage to disagree about the energy and the quality of the thirty bright stars. So that we may be mindful of those who wrote before he did about the appearance of the fixed stars and about the power of the rising stars, let us set the record straight. The Babylonians and the Chaldeans were practically the first ones to have knowledge about astronomical phenomena, just as we have recognized from those who went before us. For they tell of Apollonios the Myndian and Artemidoros (lac.), and about all these Berossus has written and others after him.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Berossus, Babyloniaca F17

Bibliography

Verbrugghe and Wickersham 2000, 67

Verbrugghe, Gerald P. and John M. Wickersham. Berossos and Manetho. Introduced and Translated. Native Traditions in Ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press 2000.

Amar Annus

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