We can frame Einstein카지노 게임 컬렉션�s prediction as a conditional sentence: 카지노 게임 컬렉션�If there is an eclipse, the light of certain stars will be observed noticeably bending around the sun.카지노 게임 컬렉션� This then gives us something to check in the sky to see if the prediction is fulfilled. And if the prediction is fulfilled, we have a convincing bit of evidence that the theory is on the right track.

This is why making successful predictions is so often seen to be an important function of our science: it convinces us that we can figure out the world around us effectively.

Future knowledge

We find predictions related to eclipses in all sorts of ancient traditions, but perhaps most prominently in what are known as Mesopotamian omen texts.

Somewhere between three and four thousand years ago in Mesopotamia, now modern-day Iraq, people began recording connections they saw in the world that they thought would allow them to understand how things worked and what might be coming in the future.

These ranged from medical symptoms 카지노 게임 컬렉션� 카지노 게임 컬렉션�if his temporal blood vessels have collapsed and his eyes are blurred, 카지노 게임 컬렉션� 카지노 게임 컬렉션� to more esoteric connections 카지노 게임 컬렉션� 카지노 게임 컬렉션�if there is an eclipse, .카지노 게임 컬렉션�

In the second case, 카지노 게임 컬렉션�if there is an eclipse, the king will die,카지노 게임 컬렉션� there is a pair of connections that we no longer think of as scientifically plausible, if only because the 3,000 years of subsequent history have failed to bear out this connection.

Still, at the time, people took it very seriously, even going to considerable lengths to protect the king by appointing who could sit on the throne during the eclipse.

Predicting eclipses

This pairing of eclipses and mortal danger to kings was serious enough that people payed very close attention to eclipses. As the Babylonians and Assyrians collected more and more data on stellar, lunar and planetary phenomena, eclipses came to be significantly better understood 카지노 게임 컬렉션� so much so that they became entirely predictable phenomena, with one caveat.

For lunar eclipses, the Earth comes between the sun and moon plunging the moon into shadow 카지노 게임 컬렉션� these eclipses are visible for roughly half the planet. These became entirely predictable.

But for solar eclipses, where the moon comes between the sun and the Earth, only a few places can see any given solar eclipse. And so it was much harder to predict the location on Earth from which a solar eclipse would be visible.

Babylonians could predict when someone would see a solar eclipse, but they just couldn카지노 게임 컬렉션�t know who and where exactly. These predictions are what historians now call 카지노 게임 컬렉션�.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

Ancient astronomy

The Mesopotamians카지노 게임 컬렉션� initial framework for eclipse prediction used : for a given eclipse, there will be a near-identical one (in magnitude, direction and timing) happening almost exactly eighteen years, eleven days and eight hours later. There will be another one eighteen years, eleven days and eight hours after that, and so one. Due to tiny inaccuracies, this system eventually degrades, but only after a sufficient number of repetitions, at which point it can be reset.

Building on this, Babylonian astronomers went on to develop even more sophisticated tables for predicting eclipses and eclipse possibilities. They further expanded their ability to predict heavenly phenomena to the point that their knowledge of lunar, solar and even planetary motions became legendary.

Their predictive methods and their observational records travelled as far as ancient Greece, Rome and India and provided the foundation for the powerful development of astronomy in those countries.

The rest, we might say, is history. But insofar as successful prediction is one of the gold standards of modern science, it all begins with a deep concern 카지노 게임 컬렉션� and a predictive control 카지노 게임 컬렉션� over eclipses.

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