Babylonian Mathematical Astronomy: Procedure Texts
Babylonian Mathematical Astronomy: Procedure Texts contains a new analysis of the procedure texts of Babylonian mathematical astronomy. These cuneiform tablets, excavated in Babylon and Uruk and dating from 350‒50 BCE, contain computational instructions t
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Other instructional texts from the first millennium BC
This table is a (certainly incomplete) list of Babylonian and Assyrian instructional texts from the first millennium BC concerning astronomy, astrology and mathematics. For tablets and fragments of Mul.Apin cf. Hunger & Pingree (1989), pp. 3–8; for tablets with instructions concerning temple rituals cf. Linssen (2004). tablet NMAT procedure texts AO 6455 (TU 11) W 20030/16 (BaM Beih 2) BM 36747+37018 BM 36782 BM 36855 BM 37110 BM 37332 BM 42282+42294 BM 43418 BM 57980 (CT 57, 292) BM 45990 BM 41004 BM 34560 (LBAT 1515) BM 45728 BM 47723 BM 36760 BM 33564 BM 33739 BM 34639 (LBAT 1501) BM 34790 (LBAT 1502)
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Uruk Uruk Babylon Babylon Babylon Babylon Babylon Babylon Babylon Babylon Babylon Babylon Babylon Babylon Babylon Babylon Babylon Babylon Babylon Babylon
Brack-Bernsen & Hunger (2002)
GY: Lunar Six; month lengths; astrology GY: Moon GY: Lunar Six GY: Lunar Six GY: Lunar Six GY: Lunar Six GY: Lunar Six GY: Lunar Six GY: Lunar Six; eclipses GY: Lunar Six GY: Moon GY: Moon, planets GY: planets GY: planets GY?: planets GY? shadow lengths? Moon’s distance to ecliptic lunar motion; ziqpu stars
Brack-Bernsen, Hunger & Walker (2008) Brack-Bernsen & Hunger (2008) Brack-Bernsen & Walker (2007) Brack-Bernsen & Hunger (2005/6) Kugler SSB I, pp. 45–48; Britton (2003)
Neugebauer & Sachs (1967), ad Text E Neugebauer & Sachs (1967), ad Text E Neugebauer & Sachs (1967), ad Text E; Donbaz & Koch (1995), p. 76
BM 35408 (LBAT 1571a) Babylon BM 36766 Babylon BM 36854 Babylon BM 37056+37074 Babylon BM 76488 Babylon BM 76703 Babylon MNB 1856 (TBER 82) Babylon Neugebauer & Sachs (1969), Text H W 22554/6 Uruk SpTU V, 269 BM 34067+X (LBAT 1494) Babylon BM 34719 (LBAT 1495) Babylon Astrological procedure texts AO 6449 (TU 19) Uruk Hunger (1976b) AO 6488 (TU 20) Uruk Hunger (1976b) W 22246a Uruk SpTU I, 94 W 23293/14 Uruk SpTU IV, 161 BM 32236+32336 Babylon Mathematical and metrological problem texts AO 6484 (TU 33) Uruk MKT I, pp. 96–107 AO 7848 Uruk MCT, Text Y W 23291 (SpTU 4, 175) Uruk Friberg (1997) W 23291-x Uruk Friberg, Hunger & al-Rawi (1990) BM 34568 Babylon MKT III, pp. 14–22 BM 34724 (LBAT 1648) Babylon Friberg & Al-Rawi (to appear) BM 34800 (LBAT 1647) Babylon Friberg & Al-Rawi (to appear) BM 78822 Babylon Jursa (1993/4) MMA 86.11.404 Babylon CTMMA II; MCT, Text X
lunar motion; ziqpu stars eclipses; omens intercalations; unclear Moon, planets: periods planets; astrology? planets; conjunctions Moon, Sun Moon, Mars instructions for observing planets, ziqpu stars instructions for a gnonom-like instrument instructions for a gnonom-like instrument weather prediction weather prediction prediction of market prices observation of eclipses, prediction of market prices zodiacal signs, eclipses, watches geometrical problems geometrical, metrological problems metrology metrology geometrical problems
metrology unidentified computations
M. Ossendrijver, Babylonian Mathematical Astronomy: Procedure Texts, Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematic
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