7 sentences with 'astronomy'
Example sentences and phrases with the word astronomy and other words derived from it.
• « - Astronomy: Just as mathematics is necessary for engineering, astronomy is necessary for a sophisticated calendar. »
• « Many of the great scientific advances that followed, including mathematics, astronomy and engineering, along with political networks and forms of organisation such as kingdoms, empires and bureaucracy, originated in Mesopotamia. »
• « The Hittites passed on Mesopotamian technologies (including mathematics, astronomy and engineering), as well as Mesopotamian legends such as the Epic of Gilgamesh, the latter of which may have undergone a long process of translation and reinterpretation to become the Greek story of Hercules. »
• « He became so skilled in astronomy that (it is said) he successfully predicted a solar eclipse in 585 BC. »
• « Hellenistic thinkers also made important discoveries in astronomy, most notably the fact that certain astronomers determined that the sun was the centre of the solar system. »
• « New discoveries were made in astronomy, metallurgy and medicine, and scholarly works from various languages were translated and preserved in Arabic. The most significant tradition of scholarship around the works of Aristotle, in particular, took place in the Abbasid caliphate. »