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Перевод: Babylonian

[прилагательное]
вавилонский;
[существительное]
вавилонянин

Тезаурус:

1. The basis of the Babylonian calendar seems always to have been lunar.
2. Celestial omens began to be used as portents on a considerable scale in the first Babylonian dynasty (eighteenth to fifteenth centuries BC), although lunar eclipses may have been regarded as ominous previously.
3. Sampling theory has been of value in various areas of museum work, from assessing the long-term resources required for conservation treatment of the British Museum's large collection of Babylonian clay tablets, to ensuring that a given "kill rate" in insecticides used for paper conservation will provide effective treatment.
4. In its massive library both Babylonian and Greek records of the heavenly bodies, going back hundreds of years, were housed, studied and debated.
5. Though applied to others of a given authority or holiness, it refers principally to one of the most influential personages in Ashkenazi (eastern European) Judaism, who followed the Palestinian traditions (as opposed to the Babylonian ones represented in its version of the Talmud): Israel ben Eliezer (Leonard's spiritual forebear, after whom he was named) - an 18th century Pole, the founder of the Hasidic movement; one whose religious awareness was very close to that which inspired Leonard, his mother and his grandfather Klinitsky-Klein.
6. Consequently, the Babylonian day began in the evening.
7. Thus, as Neugebauer has succinctly remarked, our present way of dividing up the day into hours, minutes, and seconds "is the result of a Hellenistic modification of an Egyptian practice combined with Babylonian numerical procedures".
8. Whether the cycle was discovered first by the Babylonian astronomer-priests or independently by them and Meton is uncertain.
9. "Norman" is the anglicised form of Nehemiah, who stands in the history of his people as the master-builder, rebuilder more accurately, prior to the People's return from Babylonian captivity.
10. To what degree, however, such a view of time was developed in Mesopotamian thought is not revealed by the cuneiform records, although according to Seneca the late Babylonian astronomer-priest Berossus (c.300 BC) believed in the periodic destruction and re-creation of the universe.
11. Since, following Babylonian practice, all astronomical computations involving fractions were conducted in the sexagesimal system, instead of our current decimal system, these "equinoctial" hours were divided by the astronomers into sixty firsts, or minutes, and each of these was subdivided into sixty seconds.
12. But they wrote and edited with their eyes also on the contemporary situation and on the future, with a determination that the people's faith and worship should not be swamped by the religions of their Babylonian masters, and that once back in God's Land, they should not commit the same dreadful mistakes again.
13. The oldest known system of Babylonian planetary theory is thought to have been invented not earlier than 500 BC.