Babylonian Astronomy |
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Although the Babylonians did not contribute to cosmology, their astronomy is of | |
great interest because the (1) ... data they accumulated would later be of the | ASTRONOMY |
(2) ... importance in the development of Greek geometric astronomy and cosmology. The | MOST |
(3) ... of Babylonian astronomy was preceded many centuries earlier by the appearance | EMERGE |
of a very advanced mathematics, documented in cuneiform clay tablets dating back | |
to 1700 B.C. and earlier. This mathematics was based on a base-60 positional (4) ... | NUMERATE |
system and contained solutions to quadratic (5) ... and algorithms to compute the square | EQUATE |
roots of numbers. Although there was some interest in geometry, the Babylonians (6) ... | EMPHASIS |
the arithmetic and algebraic parts of mathematics. There was during this older period, (7) ... | COMPARE |
development of astronomy in even its most (8) ... empirical form. It was only much later, | RUDIMENTS |
beginning around 600 B.C. that a sophisticated numerical astronomy was cultivated. | |
ANSWERS
NOUN TO ADJECTIVE | ASTRONOMY => ASTRONOMICAL |
SUFFIX (-ICAL) (in adjectives) - connected with: COMICAL, CHEMICAL |
COMPOUND ADJECTIVE | UT + MOST |
UTMOST - the greatest possible importance etc. |
VERB TO NOUN | EMERGE => EMERGENCE |
SUFFIX (-ENCE) (in nouns) - the action or state of: EXISTENCE, CONFIDENCE |
ADJECTIVE TO NOUN | NUMERATE => NUMERATION |
SUFFIX (-ION) (in nouns) - the action or state of: CONFESSION, COMPETITION |
VERB TO NOUN | EQUATE => EQUATION |
SUFFIX (-ION) (in nouns) - the action or state of: CONFESSION, COMPETITION |
NOUN TO VERB | EMPHASIS => EMPHASIZED |
SUFFIX (-ISE) (in verbs) - to speak, think, act, treat, etc. in the way mentioned: CRITICISE, THEORISE |
VERB TO NEGATIVE ADJECTIVE | COMPARE => INCOMPARABLE |
PREFIX (IN-) (in nouns, adjectives and adverb) - not; the opposite of: HISTORICAL + SUFFIX (-ABLE) (in adjectives) - having the quality of: FASHIONABLE |
NOUN TO ADJECTIVE | RUDIMENTS => RUDIMENTARY |
SUFFIX (-ARY) (in nouns and adjectives) - connected with: ELEMENTARY, PLANETARY |