Themes depicted in works of art. A Study in Diffusion of Artistic Models. The zodiac is a product of a revision of the Old Babylonian system in later Neo-Babylonian astronomy in the 2nd-half of the 1st-millennium BCE.
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Picturing the Stars -Scientific Iconography in the Middle Ages Dieter BlumeWatching the stars was essential from mankinds earliest times. This calculation is based on the structure of creation from the first day onwards. The decanal planets Responsibility Ewa Śnieżyńska-Stolot. The zodiac was a development from the Babylonian scheme of 1718 constellationsstars marking the path of the moon.
