A history of science . u of the night. While the astrologers deduced their omens from allthe celestial bodies known to them, they chiefly gaveattention to the moon, noting with great care the shapeof its horns, and deducing such a conclusion as that i£ the horns are pointed the king will overcome what-ever he goreth, and that when the moon is low at itsappearance, the submission (of the people) of a farcountry wiU come. The relations of the moon andsun were a source of constant observation, it beingnoted whether the sun and moon were seen togetherabove the horizon; whether one set as the other
A history of science . u of the night. While the astrologers deduced their omens from allthe celestial bodies known to them, they chiefly gaveattention to the moon, noting with great care the shapeof its horns, and deducing such a conclusion as that i£ the horns are pointed the king will overcome what-ever he goreth, and that when the moon is low at itsappearance, the submission (of the people) of a farcountry wiU come. The relations of the moon andsun were a source of constant observation, it beingnoted whether the sun and moon were seen togetherabove the horizon; whether one set as the other rose,and the like. And whatever the phenomena, there wasalways, of course, a direct association between suchphenomena and the well-being of human kind — inparticular the king, at whose instance, and doubtlessat whose expense, the observations were carried out. From omens associated with the heavenly bodies itis but a step to omens based upon other phenomena ofnature, and we shall see in a moment that the Babylo- 68.
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