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Forecast For Babylonians

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Is ‘Celestial Forecasting’ a fair description of the activities of the Babylonians?

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary (n.d.), to forecast is “to calculate or predict (some future event or condition) usually as a result of study and analysis of available pertinent data”. This word appears multiple times when one is studying the origin of science, and more specifically, the involvement of the Babylonians. It’s of great importance to study their activities in order to give us an idea of the time in which science (as we know it) started. This essay will analyze the activities of the Babylonians and, at the same time, see if “Celestial Forecasting” is a fair description of them.
The Babylonians were not interested in knowing the underlying explanations as of why things behave as they do in the heavens, so they focused on making very accurate predictions (by extrapolating the data they recorded) and looking for signs …show more content…

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