Atherant
Babylonian astronomers developed methods for predicting the rising and setting of planets and length of daylight. The used water clocks, gnomon, shadows and intercalculations.
History of the constellations
Babylonian astronomy
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Babylonian planetary models relied on empirical data, unlike the speculative Hellenistic models which followed.