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Dewey Class	510.9
Title	Babylonian Mathematical Astronomy: Procedure Texts ([Ebook]) / by Mathieu Ossendrijver.
Author	Ossendrijver, Mathieu
Other name(s)	SpringerLink (Online service)
Publication	New York, NY : Springer , 2012.
Physical Details	XXVI, 615 pages: 207 illus., 68 illus. in color. : online resource.
Series	Sources and studies in the history of mathematics and physical sciences
ISBN	9781461437826
Summary Note	Babylonian Mathematical Astronomy: Procedure Texts contains a new analysis of the procedure texts of Babylonian mathematical astronomy. These cuneiform tablets, excavated in Babylon and Uruk and dating from 350â50 BCE, contain computational instructions that represent the earliest known form of mathematical astronomy of the ancient world. The targeted readership includes assyriologists, historians of science, astronomers and others with an interest in Babylonian astronomy. The book includes new translations of all 108 available tablets that are based on a modern approach incorporating recent insights from assyriology and translation science. All translations are accompanied by commentaries and photographs of the tablets. The preceding chapters are devoted to documentary, lexical, semantic, mathematical and astronomical aspects of the procedure texts. Special attention is given to issues of mathematical representation, a topic that had previously been largely ignored. Mathematical concepts are presented in a didactic fashion, setting out from the most elementary ones (numbers and elementary operations) to more complex ones (algorithms and computational systems). Chapters devoted to the planets and the Moon contain updated and expanded reconstructions and astronomical interpretations of the algorithms.Â Â The author intends to continue his study of Babylonian mathematical astronomy with a new publication devoted to the Tabular Textsâthe end products of Babylonian mathematical astronomy, computed with algorithms that are formulated in the present volume. The upcoming volume will contain new editions and reconstructions of over 250 tabular texts and a new philological, astronomical, and mathematical analysis of these texts.:
Contents note	Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and symbols -- 1. Procedure texts -- 2. Mathematical concepts â from numbers to computational systems -- 3. Planets -- 4. Moon -- 5. Critical editions -- Appendices -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Indices.
System details note	Online access to this digital book is restricted to subscription institutions through IP address (only for SISSA internal users).
Internet Site	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3782-6
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Astronomy . Astronomy, Observations and Techniques . History of Mathematical Sciences . History of Science . Mathematics - History . Oriental Languages . Science . Semitic Languages . Authors: Ossendrijver, Mathieu . Corporate Authors: SpringerLink (Online service) . Series: Sources and studies in the history of mathematics and physical sciences . Classification: 510.9 . 510.9 (DDC 23) .

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