The 3,700-year-old Babylonian tablet Plimpton 322 at the Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Columbia University in New York. An ancient Babylonian tablet whose purpose has been a longstanding mystery ...
Newly translated ancient tablets show that ancient Babylonian astronomers used unexpectedly advanced geometry to understand the planets. The find, described on Thursday in the journal Science, reveals ...
IN the past six years our knowledge of the ancient Babylonian mathematics has been vastly increased, thanks mainly to the labours of Dr. Neugebauer. The impulse to his researches seems to have come ...
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