Acronychal risings in Babylonian planetary theory

DOI10.1007/S004070050033MaRDI QIDQ1293450zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors N. M. Swerdlow

Publication date 28 June 1999

Published in Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s004070050033

zbMATH Keywords

astronomy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Babylonian mathematics (01A17) History of astronomy and astrophysics (85-03)

Review text

Verf. legt im Nachgang zu seinem kürzlich erschienenen Buch [The Babylonian theory of planets. Princeton: University Press (1998)] die Berechnung einer Reihe von Tabellen für die äußeren Planeten vor, die im Zusammenhang mit dem akronytischen Aufgang dieser Planeten stehen.

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