Babylonians calculated Jupiter's position using ancient math

[zerozero]

The discovery suggests that ancient astronomers were using mathematical concepts thought to have arisen centuries later in Europe. It's also the first time anyone has found direct evidence that Babylonians used this kind of abstract mathematics for astronomy.

The tablet "testifies to the revolutionary brilliance of the unknown Mesopotamian scholars who constructed Babylonian mathematical astronomy during the second half of the first millennium B.C.," says Alexander Jones, a professor of the history of the exact sciences in antiquity at New York University.

Mathieu Ossendrijver of Humboldt University in Berlin found the tablet while combing through the collections at the British Museum. The written record gives instructions for estimating the area under a curve by finding the area of trapezoids drawn underneath. Using those calculations, the tablet shows how to find the distance Jupiter has traveled in a given interval of time. Until now, this kind of use of trapezoids wasn't known to exist before the 14th century.


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[Mess World]

Reading epic of Gilgamesh currently

 

[Mess World]

Reason why I'm specializing in Middle East history as my history major , I wanted Africa but for 1 I would get into too many racial debates and 2 I think some crazy shyt was going on from Sudan up Western Asia during those times

 

[zerozero]

Reason why I'm specializing in Middle East history as my history major , I wanted Africa but for 1 I would get into too many racial debates and 2 I think some crazy shyt was going on from Sudan up Western Asia during those times

Are you familiar with the debates saying that maybe scientists have it wrong about (agricultural) civilization being about 10,000 years old... some folks like Graham Hancock suggest there were older civilizations that maybe got wiped out in catastrophes.

 

[Mess World]

Are you familiar with the debates saying that maybe scientists have it wrong about (agricultural) civilization being about 10,000 years old... some folks like Graham Hancock suggest there were older civilizations that maybe got wiped out in catastrophes.

Yeah I have Graham's hancock's, heavens mirror and finger prints of the Gods, have to re read those , scholars try to label him as a fraud listen to one of those joe rogan podcasts he's on where he said BBC did a smear campaign on him.

I used to be pro western science and history than over the past months things started to change now I'm more counter

 

[Black Hans]

Ancient math, huh? The propaganda is real.

And Graham Hancock is deceived. Dude going into other dimensions, getting beat up by demons and somehow think it's I'm going to have to pray for breh. For people wondering what I'm talking about look at his interview in the DMT: The Spiritual Molecule documentary

 

[pickles]

I read about this and was like :wowow1:


If I looked at that tablet, I would like :whatthefukk:

I always wonder what the night sky looked like back in the day, I bet it was filled with stars, now there is too much light pollution and you can't see shyt. :sadlebron:

 

[zerozero]

And Graham Hancock is deceived. Dude going into other dimensions, getting beat up by demons and somehow think it's I'm going to have to pray for breh.