Astronomy was the first natural science to reach a high level of sophistication and predictive ability, which it achieved in the second half of the 1st millennium BCE.
Sources
- History of astronomy (en.wikipedia.org)
- https://www.britannica.com/science/astronomy/History-of-astronomy (britannica.com)
- https://handwiki.org/wiki/Astronomy:History_of_astronomy (handwiki.org)
- https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/36268 (encyclopedia.pub)
- https://arxiv.org/pdf/1209.3563 (arxiv.org)
- https://www.worldhistory.org/Greek_Astronomy/ (worldhistory.org)