CLST 214 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Babylonian Mathematics, Fixed Stars
31 Oct 2017
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Test hint: in astronomy tutorial, in black capital letters, you should have a one sentence de nition for that for the tests and exam, around 3 of them will appear, be sure to know them all though. They found that yes, some things repeat cyclically. Model is extremely complex: lunar phenomena modelled in babylonian astronomy. Eclipses: predictable with mathematics, but to gure out how is very tricky, moon speed changes, wobbles north and south of the ecliptic. !1: lunar they can predict, solar they can predict but that"s much more local/ smaller cone of a shadow from the moon. First stations: we know several hundred years of the stations of jupiter from a tablet c. 200. First appearances: fixed stars we talked about in previous lecture, comes out from horizon. Last appearances: we believe that we know things when we can predict things.
