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Originally Posted by M.D. Holloway
Interesting but why such a fascination with the position of the stars and planets and the phases of the moon?
If you are that techno advanced surely you would know that these astro bodies play little of any role in daily affairs.
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Because with an understanding of these things you can precisely calculate things like the circumference of the Earth, curvature, point to point distances with high precision, etc. Something that Greeks were into...