Dante and the early astronomers . alendar led their inhabitants to observe theskies thousands of years ago ; but their early workwas naturally vague and rude. This star-worship and star-study seems to have beenlearned by the Semitic Babylonians, and their descend-ants and rivals the Assyrians, from a race with whomthey met and mingled in the grey dawn of history,but whose existence was unknown to us before themiddle of last century. sky where it was then too northerly for Aratus, leaving Corvus to thesouth of the line. Much the same may be said about the trojtical Aratus was car
Dante and the early astronomers . alendar led their inhabitants to observe theskies thousands of years ago ; but their early workwas naturally vague and rude. This star-worship and star-study seems to have beenlearned by the Semitic Babylonians, and their descend-ants and rivals the Assyrians, from a race with whomthey met and mingled in the grey dawn of history,but whose existence was unknown to us before themiddle of last century. sky where it was then too northerly for Aratus, leaving Corvus to thesouth of the line. Much the same may be said about the trojtical Aratus was careless, or the globe from which he took his descrip-tions was incorrect : in any case, there results an uncertainty of manycenturies and many degrees in date and latitude. ^ Epping and Strassmeier, Astronomisches aus Babylon, KuglersBahylonische Mondrechnung, and Bahyloniscke Sternkunde. Schia-parellia two monographs on Babylonian Astronomy, from which much ofthe information here given is derived, are chiefly based on these
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