Bisecting the trapezoid: tracing the origins of a Babylonian computation of Jupiter's motion

DOI10.1007/s00407-018-0204-4zbMath1409.01008OpenAlexW2791720878WikidataQ130170891 ScholiaQ130170891MaRDI QIDQ1637279

Mathieu Ossendrijver

Publication date: 7 June 2018

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-018-0204-4

zbMATH Keywords

trapezoidBabylonian astronomyBabylonian mathematicsJupiter's motion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Babylonian mathematics (01A17)

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Bisecting the trapezoid: tracing the origins of a Babylonian computation of Jupiter's motion

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