Babylonians Tracked Jupiter with Fancy Math, Tablet Reveals

Thursday, January 28, 2016 - 14:09 in Mathematics & Economics

For a text that may rewrite the history of mathematics, it looks rather sloppy. A small brown clay tablet that's scrawled with hasty cuneiform characters proves the ancient Babylonians used a complex geometrical model to calculate Jupiter's path.

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