The Song of Urania

How should we approach the history of astronomy?  How have the questions that astronomers have asked changed through the... Read more

What are the earliest records of constellations? How did the ancient Babylonians keep track of their progress through th... Read more

We look at how the Babylonians associated the heavens with their gods and how Mesopotamian astrology developed after the... Read more

We step back and look at Babylon's broader political history and see how Babylonian astronomy changes during the rise of... Read more

We look at how the Babylonians represented information in their astronomical tablets by examining their number system an... Read more

We dive into the most sophisticated model of planetary and lunar motions that the Babylonians developed: System A and Sy... Read more

As we start to examine the astronomy of Ancient Greece we hear of the myth cycles of Theseus and Perseus, episodes from ... Read more

We outline the early development of Greek civilization after the Late Bronze Age Collapse and how the unique geography o... Read more

Thales was the first of the Greek astronomers and became known as one of the Seven Sages of Greece. Over the centuries m... Read more

Miletus became a wealthy Greek city during the Archaic Period and developed a thriving intellectual culture which includ... Read more