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Detailed explanation-1: -During the 8th and 7th centuries BC, Babylonian astronomers developed a new empirical approach to astronomy. They began studying and recording their belief system and philosophies dealing with an ideal nature of the universe and began employing an internal logic within their predictive planetary systems.

Detailed explanation-2: -Under the Babylonians’ earlier, arithmetic-based method, astronomers would measure the distance Jupiter traveled every day-then, by adding together the “distance per day” for each day from the first through the 60th, they would get the total distance traveled.

Detailed explanation-3: -Babylonian numerals The Babylonian system of mathematics was a sexagesimal (base 60) numeral system. From this we derive the modern-day usage of 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, and 360 degrees in a circle.