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Interesting to think that Babylonians used sophisticated geometric methods and arithmetic to track and record the motion of celestial bodies, and some evidence suggests they used an early form of calculus to do so. These methods were used between 350 and 50 B.C.E. Archimedes lives BCE 287-212.

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