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Planetary, Lunar and Solar Positions, 601 B.C. to a.D. 1, at Five-Day and Ten Day Intervals: Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (vol. 56) - Hardcover

Tuckerman, Bryant

 
9780871690562: Planetary, Lunar and Solar Positions, 601 B.C. to a.D. 1, at Five-Day and Ten Day Intervals: Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (vol. 56)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 087169056X ISBN 13: 9780871690562
Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press, 1962

Synopsis

The need for these tables became pressing when hundreds of astronomical cuneiform tables in the British Museum became available for study, partly through the copies made in the 1880s and 1890s. All these texts originally came from some archive in Babylon which was discovered by Arabs in the middle of the 19th century. Most of the texts were written from about 330 B.C. to the first century A.D. Many of the texts are fragments of the original clay tables which have broken. In many cases, a fragment contains only parts of a few legible lines. Much of the information is of an astronomical character. It is evident that for investigations of these tablets the possibility of rapid scanning of accurately dated planetary positions is of primary importance.

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Publisher
American Philosophical Society Press
Publication date
1962
Language
English
ISBN 10 
087169056X
ISBN 13 
9780871690562
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
333