Because the connection between mathematics and astronomy became vital from Greek times on, we shall note what the Babylonians knew and did in astronomy. Nothing is known about Sumerian astronomy, and the as­tronomy of the Akkadian period was crude and qualitative; the development of mathematics preceded the development of any significant astronomy. 

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