Studies on Babylonian goal-year astronomy. I: A comparison between planetary data in goal-year texts, almanacs and normal star almanacs.

DOI10.1007/S00407-008-0027-9zbMath1229.01007OpenAlexW2056037497MaRDI QIDQ956713

J. M. K. Gray, John M. Steele

Publication date: 26 November 2008

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-008-0027-9

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of astronomy and astrophysics (85-03) History of Babylonian mathematics (01A17)

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• A study of Babylonian observations of planets near normal stars
• Eclipse prediction in Mesopotamia
• Solstices and Equinoxes in Babylonian Astronomy during the Seleucid Period
• Sirius Dates in Babylonian Astronomical Texts of the Seleucid Period
• Some Atypical Astronomical Cuneiform Texts. I
• Some Atypical Astronomical Cuneiform Texts, II
• A Classification of the Babylonian Astronomical Tablets of the Seleucid Period

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