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Let me guess; Old Wisdom that’s fallen out of practice?
The article is right there, so no guessing required!
the opposite
The modern practices of dividing a circle into 360 degrees, of 60 minutes each, began with the Sumerians.
exactly… but no trace of old wisdom inside. Just earth is not the center of the world, there are planets, celestial object dont move in circle but in elipse… etc
It really is staggering how many different civilizations millennia ago predicted the existence of a certain ‘Edmond Halley’ at some point in the distant future, and how they knew to name that exact comet after him.
