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Aries 8° is in fact
a legitimate Babylonian norming point for the vernal equinox
in a zodiac in which degrees are not counted from the vernal point,
but from sidereally fixed zodiacal signs beginning with Aries
“The Hired Man” in the Babylonian zodiac.
The norm 8 Aries as the vernal point
underlies many Hellenistic astrological texts
and continued in use throughout late antiquity....'' - Rochberg, F. (2010).
In the path of the moon: Babylonian celestial divination
and its legacy (Vol. 6). Brill.


''Not only is the Babylonian origin of the zodiac assured
on the basis of cuneiform documentation :smile:
but, as Neugebauer has demonstrated from the deviation (≈5°)
between modern longitudes and those given in Greek horoscopes,
the astrological literature of the hellenistic and Roman period
continued to use the norming point of the Babylonian zodiac (Aries 8° or 10°). - ibid.


This most useful method of comparing ancient and modern data
was suggested to me by J.P. Britton. Babylonian (sidereal) longitudes
may accordingly be compared against modern computed (tropical) longitudes
by means of a correction factor which takes into account
the constant of precession and the date of the data to be compared.
Therefore,
λ Babylonian = λ tropical + ∆λ, where ∆λ = 3.08° + 1.3825° × year date number.
3.08° is the correction factor for the year 0
and 1.3825° is the constant of precession per 100 years. - ibid.
somebody at the time could not have used Lahiri or Raman



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