Planetary, Lunar and Solar Positions, 601 B.C. t Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (vol. 56)

Bryant Tuckerman

ISBN 10: 087169056X / ISBN 13: 9780871690562

Published by American Philosophical Society, 1979

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333 pages. 10.75x8.50x1.25 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Planetary, Lunar and Solar Positions, 601 B.C. t Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (vol. 56)
• Publisher: American Philosophical Society
• Publication Date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 087169056X
• ISBN 13: 9780871690562
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.67 kilograms

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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.