Babylonian

(noun.) the ideographic and syllabic writing system in which the ancient Babylonian language was written.

(noun.) an inhabitant of ancient Babylon.

(adj.) of or relating to the city of Babylon or its people or culture; 'Babylonian religion' .

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• The Babylonian astr onomers also observed that the successive vernal (or autumnal) equinoxes follow each other at intervals of a few seconds less than a year. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• He defeated the Babylonian army, under Belshazzar, outside Babylon, and then laid siege to the town. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The story of the Creation and the Flood, much of the story of Moses, much of Samson, were probably incorporated from Babylonian sources. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The Babylonian books of medic ine contained strange interminglings of prescription and incantation. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The sexagesimal method of dividing the circle and its parts was, as we have seen in the fir st chapter, of Babylonian origin. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• There is evidence that he acquired a knowle dge of Babylonian astronomy. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• As we have already se en, considerable knowledge of geometry is apparent in Babylonian designs and constructions. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Like the Babylonian Nabonidus, who lived a thousand years later, he may have had in mind the problem of moral unity in his empire. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In the Babylonian and Assyrian world the traders were predominantly the Semitic Arameans, the ancestors of the modern Syrians. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The early Semites, it is said, as soon as they thought of a god, invented a wife for him; most of the Egyptian and Babylonian gods were married. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Belshazzar, the son of the last Babylonian king, dealt in wool on a considerable scale. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• He is not merely wearing the symbols of these gods as a devout Babylonian might wear the symbols of Bel-Marduk; he is these three gods in one. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The Babylonian influences that had made Sardanapalus collect a great library of ancient writings in Nineveh were still at work. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Merodach, the Babylonian Jupiter, was carried off by the Elamites, and Babylon did not feel independent until its return. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• A second motive tha t influenced the Babylonian priests in studying the movements of the heavenly bodies was the hope of foretelling events. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The Babylonians were a nation of agriculturists and merchants. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Like the Egyptians, the Babylonians were not greatly concerned at a change of rule to Macedonian from Persian. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It inspired a great number of Babylonians and the like to claim Abraham as their father, and thrust their company upon the returning Jews. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Moreover, from the Babylonians we derive some of our most sublime religious and scientific conceptions. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The mathematical kn owledge of the Babylonians is related on the one hand to their astronomy and on the other to their commercial pursuits. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Like the Egyptians, the Babylonians took special note of the stars and star-groups that were to be seen at dawn at different times of the year. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Ev en in that remote age, however, the Babylonians had established those divisions of time which are familiar to us. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The Aryan Scythians are for the Semitic Assyrians; the Aryan Medes for the Semitic Babylonians. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The particulars usually brought forward to prove his originality tend rather to show his indebtedness to the Babylonians. 李贝. 西洋科学史.

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