Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates c13.11

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c13.11

3. "Ptolemy, in his Almagest, gives the dates of various eclipses and occultations observed at Babylon between the years B.C. 721 and 229. The last three dates, B.C. 245, 237, 229, bear the names of Macedonian months, and by calculation prove that the Babylonians under the Seleukidæ measured time by lunar months with Macedonian names.

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