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~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Plimpton 322

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.

Astronomy & Mathematics

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Astronomical cuneiform tablet - AD 61

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

Astronomy & Mathematics

~1800 BCE·Old BabylonianEditorial

Cuneiform tablet- ephemeris of eclipses from at least S.E. 177 to 199 (?) MET ME86 11 345

Tablet image sourced from Wikimedia Commons (CC0). No scholarly translation referenced in source metadata. Source description: Seleucid; Cuneiform tablet; Clay-Tablets-Inscribed

Astronomy & Mathematics