Position in chronology
Astronomical cuneiform tablet - AD 61
Translation — curated editorial
EditorialEditorial entry — translation cited from: Wikimedia Commons file: File:Astronomical cuneiform tablet - AD 61.jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AAstronomical_cuneiform_tablet_-_AD_61.jpg. Description: One of the latest dated cuneiform tablet, AD 61, Babylon, "Almanach" type. It gives the monthly positions of the planets in the zodiac, dates solstices, equinoxes, eclipses, rising of Sirius. From Babylon. 40084.
Scholarly note
Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: One of the latest dated cuneiform tablet, AD 61, Babylon, "Almanach" type. It gives the monthly positions of the planets in the zodiac, dates solstices, equinoxes, eclipses, rising of Sirius. From Bab
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Image: Zunkir — Wikimedia Commons. source
Translation excerpted from Wikimedia Commons file: File:Astronomical cuneiform tablet - AD 61.jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AAstronomical_cuneiform_tablet_-_AD_61.jpg. Description: One of the latest dated cuneiform tablet, AD 61, Babylon, "Almanach" type. It gives the monthly positions of the planets in the zodiac, dates solstices, equinoxes, eclipses, rising of Sirius. From Babylon. 40084..
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Whatever its purpose, this single tablet shows that Babylonian mathematicians, working in base-60, had an arithmetic understanding of right triangles a millennium before Pythagoras was born.