TheLadyAugust@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

Ancient 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?

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Ancient 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?

TheLadyAugust@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

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Babylonian astronomy

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_astronomy
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  pretty interesting wiki page, is their 60 base math the reason we still have 60 base time?
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    Basically, yes. Time, angles, geographic coordinates.
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      round things! time being a flat circle, obviously. ;)

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