Discussion of the Konstellations

[Linda]

agreed. plus, the time in history that the MS is dated to marks a point where the west was starting to have access to outside texts, those that were not part of the established culture in that place and time, and generally came from places where more ancient societies once thrived. astronomy figures into almost all cultures and was especially important in the more ancient ones.

Not that they saw this, but I offer this as an example that in the context of astronomy we could be dealing with far older civilizations than we've been talking about: