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Chinese astronomy dates back to 4000 BCE, using stars as reference points. The average astronomer had three jobs - charting time, announcing the first day of each month, and predicting lunar eclipses, with beheading as punishment for incorrect predictions. They divided the sky into a 12x10 grid to track a 60-year cycle. Between the 3rd-6th centuries, Chinese scholars made accurate measurements and proposed a year length less than a minute off from modern calculations. They meticulously recorded phenomena li

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