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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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 Years were denoted by whole numbers starting from...
-[[Lunar Ephemerides]]
-[[Plantary Ephemerides]]