Among the most accurate observers of this era were [Babylonians]. They could predict [the rising] and setting of the planets and the appearance of eclipses; and they constructed an accurate lunisolar calendar. We also formulated the unit space measurement known as [the arc] degree and established a time degree equal in duration to four minutes.

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