What was the first thing scientists discovered? A historian makes the case for Babylonian astronomy
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The Ascendance of the Book Ladder
A friend of mine comes over, and we wander into my shimmering Babylonian spire of a library, with shelves of books ascending into the atmosphere. The only way to access them is by using the star ...