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  1. BABYLONIAN PLANETARY POSITIONS: 491 BC
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  3. Cuneiform tablets bearing the name of Naburiannu 
  4. (circa 491 BC) and originating in the cities Uruk and 
  5. Babylon have been found with planetary calculations. 
  6. Perhaps Naburiannu is responsible for developing these 
  7. calculations which accurately predict the eastward and 
  8. retrograde positions of the planets (Mercury, Venus, 
  9. Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn).
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