Neugebauer's "The Exact Sciences in Antiquity," New York, Dover Publications, 1969. This especially discusses Babylonian astronomy, with some treatment of Egyptian and Greek astronomy.

Those more deeply into math may like his out-of-print three-volume mathematically-oriented treatise "A history of ancient mathematical astronomy," Berlin ; New York, Springer-Verlag, 1975.

Gordon

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