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Babylon’s Ripple Effect

A week or so ago, I talked about the Roman calendar, but they were by no means the only ones who used the cyclic nature of the moon’s phases to measure time.  In fact, as in many other fields of scientific endeavour, the Romans probably based their first calendar on one of the Greek ones.  The situation in Classical Greece wasn’t entirely straightforward:  several different calendars

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