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Touch the Stars is like an introductory astronomy book that would be good for, you know, anyone who is age eight and up, because it has all sorts of typical astronomy images.
Richard Berry is as influential as any amateur astronomer in the country, writing books and traveling the world for solar eclipses.
With that idea in mind, as a historian of science, my best answer to the question of what the first scientists discovered is Babylonian astronomy.