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ζῴδιον
see also:
sign of the Zodiac
Aristotle METE
ζῴδιον
Lucretius DRN
Seneca NQ
References for Greek and Latin
Modern Description
written by Susanne M Hoffmann
The zodiac is an invention of Babylonian mathematical astronomy in the middle of the 1st millennium BCE (Britton 2010). It is a great circle in the sky, divided into twelve equal sections called "signs" and each of them named after one of the constellations it covers.
Reference
Britton, J. P., 2010 Studies in Babylonian Lunar Theory III,
The Introduction of the Uniform Zodiac,
Archive for History of Exact Sciences 64,
617-663, DOI 10.1007/s00407-010-0064-z
Further Remarks
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