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+===== Babylonian Astronomy =====
+==== Introduction ====
+Within the Babylonian tradition of astronomy there have been two genres of texts: There are mathematical astronomy texts, which mostly consist of tables recording or calculating various statistics about the behavior of heavenly bodies. These texts themselves do not deal with the interpretation or prognostication of the events they record. The second type of document is the 'non-mathematical' astronomy text, which are mostly omens? involving astronomical events.
+List of topics:
+  - Basic terms and concepts
+  - Mathematical Astronomy
+       * [[Lunar Ephemerides]]
+       * [[Plantary Ephemerides]]
+       * [[Applications to Chronology]]
+  - Non-mathematical Astronomy
+==== Basic terms and concepts ====
 ==== Metrological Units ====
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 == Signs of the Zodiac ==
-^Modern Name ^ Cuneiform designation ^
+^Modern Name ^ Cuneiform designation ^ Greek Symbol ^
 |Aries|hun|
 |Taurus|mul2|
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 Years were denoted by whole numbers starting from...
-== Lunal ephemerides ==
-In Neugebauer's system of classification, there are two methods of computing ephemerides, which he names System A and System B.
-System A
-In this scheme the sun is presumed to move at one of two constant speeds on different arcs of the ecliptic.
-== Layout of a tablet ==
-The first column on the left side of the obverse gives the years and months of the record of each syzygy. Neugebauer calls this Column T.