▲ 301 ▼ Ancient wisdom often sounds like common sense now that it is commomly taught. What is some ancient wisdom that we no longer teach because it was wrong? (lemmy.world) submitted 2 years ago by TheLadyAugust@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world 180 comments fedilink hide all child comments This question inspired by this post..
[–] lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org 30 points 2 years ago (1 child) Babylonian astronomy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_astronomy permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] DuckPuppet@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago (1 child) pretty interesting wiki page, is their 60 base math the reason we still have 60 base time? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 30 points 2 years ago* (1 child) Basically, yes. Time, angles, geographic coordinates. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] unreasonabro@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago round things! time being a flat circle, obviously. ;) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] DuckPuppet@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago (1 child) pretty interesting wiki page, is their 60 base math the reason we still have 60 base time? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 30 points 2 years ago* (1 child) Basically, yes. Time, angles, geographic coordinates. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] unreasonabro@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago round things! time being a flat circle, obviously. ;) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 30 points 2 years ago* (1 child) Basically, yes. Time, angles, geographic coordinates. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] unreasonabro@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago round things! time being a flat circle, obviously. ;) permalink fedilink source parent
[–] unreasonabro@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago round things! time being a flat circle, obviously. ;) permalink fedilink source parent