@[email protected] to Ask [email protected] • 11 months agoAncient wisdom often sounds like common sense now that it is commomly taught. What is some ancient wisdom that we no longer teach because it was wrong?message-square167fedilinkarrow-up1295file-text
arrow-up1284message-squareAncient wisdom often sounds like common sense now that it is commomly taught. What is some ancient wisdom that we no longer teach because it was wrong?@[email protected] to Ask [email protected] • 11 months agomessage-square167fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarelemmy689linkfedilinkEnglish30•11 months agoBabylonian astronomy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_astronomy
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink21•11 months agopretty interesting wiki page, is their 60 base math the reason we still have 60 base time?
minus-squareHyperrealitylinkfedilink29•edit-211 months agoBasically, yes. Time, angles, geographic coordinates.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•11 months agoround things! time being a flat circle, obviously. ;)
Babylonian astronomy
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_astronomy
pretty interesting wiki page, is their 60 base math the reason we still have 60 base time?
Basically, yes. Time, angles, geographic coordinates.
round things! time being a flat circle, obviously. ;)