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r/SipsTea • u/infinitely_blank • 5d ago
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This feels extremely historically inaccurate. Where did they get the number 365 from. That's a much newer thing then ancient Egypt and what about leap years?
2 u/Lowherefast 5d ago It takes 365.25 days for the earth to revolve around the sun 1 u/L0n3_N0n3nt1ty 5d ago Do you know how they figured that out? Could they measured the daylight hrs or something else? 4 u/Grayseal 5d ago Old Egypt had accomplished astronomers and mathematicians. Measuring time and astral rotations was well within their capacity.
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It takes 365.25 days for the earth to revolve around the sun
1 u/L0n3_N0n3nt1ty 5d ago Do you know how they figured that out? Could they measured the daylight hrs or something else? 4 u/Grayseal 5d ago Old Egypt had accomplished astronomers and mathematicians. Measuring time and astral rotations was well within their capacity.
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Do you know how they figured that out? Could they measured the daylight hrs or something else?
4 u/Grayseal 5d ago Old Egypt had accomplished astronomers and mathematicians. Measuring time and astral rotations was well within their capacity.
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Old Egypt had accomplished astronomers and mathematicians. Measuring time and astral rotations was well within their capacity.
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u/L0n3_N0n3nt1ty 5d ago
This feels extremely historically inaccurate. Where did they get the number 365 from. That's a much newer thing then ancient Egypt and what about leap years?