Geometry helped ancient Babylonians track planets

People in ancient Babylon used geometry to calculate the position of Jupiter some 1,400 years earlier than previously thought, researchers said Friday. The findings in the US journal Science are based on an analysis of four ancient tablets that were written in Babylon between 350 and 50 BC. "These tablets are the earliest known examples of using geometry to calculate positions in time-space and suggest that ancient Babylonian astronomers may have influenced the emergence of such techniques in We