“Their observations were made in towers called ‘ziggurats’ ” (p. 106). “They built observatories in all the great cities, and reports like the above [which Dr. Budge gives in full] were regularly sent to the King” (p. 110). “They were able to calculate eclipses, and had long lists of them.” “They found out that the sun was spotted, and they knew of comets.” “They were the inventors of the Zodiac” (?). There are fragments of two (ancient Babylonian) planispheres in the British Museum with figures and calculations inscribed upon them. “The months were called after the signs of the Zodiac” (p. 109). We may form some idea of what this “representation of the heavens” was from the fifth “Creation Tablet,” now in the British Museum. It reads as follows:— “Anu [_the Creator_] made excellent the mansions [_i.e._ _the celestial houses_] of the great gods [twelve] in number [_i.e._ _the twelve signs or mansions of the sun_]. The stars he placed in them. The lumasi [_i.e._ _groups of stars or figures_] he fixed. He arranged the year according to the bounds [_i.e._ _the twelve signs_] which he defined. For each of the twelve months three rows of stars [_i.e._ _constellations_] he fixed. From the day when the year issues forth unto the close, he marked the mansions [_i.e._ _the Zodiacal Signs_] of the wandering stars [_i.e._ _planets_] to know their courses that they might not err or deflect at all.” Coming down to less ancient records: EUDOXOS, an astronomer of Cnidus (403 to 350 B.C.), wrote a work on Astronomy which he called _Phainomena_. ANTIGONUS GONATAS, King of Macedonia (273‐239 B.C.), requested the Poet ARATUS to put the work of EUDOXUS into the form of a poem, which he did about the year 270 B.C. ARATUS called his work _Diosemeia (the Divine Signs)_. He was a native of Tarsus, and it is interesting for us to note that his poem was known to, and, indeed, must have been read by, the Apostle Paul, for he quotes it in his address at Athens on Mars’ Hill. He says (Acts xvii. 28), “For in Him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.”(16) Several translations of this poem have been made, both by CICERO and others, into Latin, and in recent times into English by E. Poste, J. Lamb, and others. The following is the opening from the translation of Robert Brown, jun.:—