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Re: Astronomy & math in ancient Babylon
From: Brad Morris
Date: 2016 Jan 31, 19:21 -0500
From: Brad Morris
Date: 2016 Jan 31, 19:21 -0500
I saw that article and was excited right up until I realized the model described was the earth centered solar system.
Bras
On Jan 31, 2016 1:10 PM, "Noell Wilson" <NoReply_Wilson@fer3.com> wrote:
The right people looked at come clay tablets in the British Museum and recognized that Babylonian astronomers in the 350 to 50 B.C. Period described the unique motion of Jupiter across the sky with graphs of position versus time. "It was an abstract concept not known elsewhere at the time. 'It anticipates integral calculus.' "
Regards, Noell
